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European Council / Council of the European Union Council of the EU Press release 14 March 2026 16:30 The Council decided today to prolong the restrictive measures targeting those responsible for undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine for another six months, until 15 September 2026. Individual listings will continue to apply to around 2 600 individuals and entities, who were targeted in response to Russia’s ongoing unjustified and unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine. The current restrictive measures include travel restrictions for natural persons, the freezing of assets, and a ban on making funds or other…

Baykar developed the K2 Kamikaze UAV indigenously with its own resource. Credit: ssi77/Shutterstock.com. Turkiye’s Baykar has completed a series of flight tests of its indigenously developed K2 Kamikaze Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The UAV, developed within the framework of its cost-effective defence solutions strategy, demonstrated its autonomous operation, AI functionality, and ability to fly in formations, Baykar said. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The tests involved five aircraft flying from the Keşan Flight Training and Test Center on 13 and 14 March…

Black Jack brigade conducts NTC rotation 26-02. Credit: U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Tyler Williams) (1st Lt. Tyler Williams). The US Army has entered into an enterprise contract with Anduril, with a value of up to $20bn, aiming to consolidate the procurement and management of the company’s commercially available technologies. The firm-fixed-price agreement is designed to streamline acquisitions and support the Army’s operational and business needs through a “single contractual framework”. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Under the new arrangement, the…

By Peter Kouretsos The Department of War is addressing its critical shortfall in precision munitions, but it also needs more platforms capable of using them. This is especially true for the U.S. Navy. As the number of missile-equipped vessels shrinks, the Navy risks sailing into a dangerous trough, just as operational demands in the Indo-Pacific grow. To prepare for a more dangerous world and continue on its course of distributed maritime operations, the Navy could take steps to grow and make better use of its missile shooters. The Navy faces at least three challenges for its missile shooters. First, in…

Ulm, Germany, 16 March 2026 – The sensor system house HENSOLDT and technology company AUMOVIO have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement aims to open up career opportunities for AUMOVIO employees as the company realigns its global research and development activities, and to facilitate transitions into roles that are in high regional demand. The agreement covers AUMOVIO’s southern German locations in Ulm, Lindau and Markdorf, where around 600 employees are affected by the transformation. Due to sustained demand in the defense industry, HENSOLDT is significantly expanding its delivery and production capacities and is actively recruiting new employees. In 2025, HENSOLDT…

Picture a fighter jet cruising at 30,000 feet. Instead of carrying a handful of massive bombs, it’s loaded with dozens of compact precision weapons, each capable of striking a separate target miles away. That shift in modern air warfare is largely thanks to the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, better known simply as the GBU-39 SDB.At first glance, the GBU-39 doesn’t look intimidating. It’s relatively small, about 285 pounds, far lighter than traditional 1,000- or 2,000-pound bombs used for decades. But don’t let the size fool you.The real magic lies in precision, efficiency, and range. Designed as part of the U.S.…

The Army-led Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has made one of its first major steps to securing interoperable counter-unmanned systems: selecting Anduril’s Lattice command-and-control software as a common platform for any system bought in the government’s marketplace. The $87 million contract is part of a larger agreement the Army signed with Anduril last week, to the tune of up to $20 billion over the next decade, to authorize any federal agency to purchase Anduril’s commercially available products, the company’s chief business officer told reporters Monday.“There’s going to be a push to centralize other [Defense Department] and federal spending against it, and…

March 15, 2026 Thales’s radio management system ensures enhanced mission performance and reliability. This new system enhances trainer aircraft with robust, resilient and flexible communication capabilities, tailored to evolving operational requirements of training missions. This new contract strengthens the partnership between Pilatus and Thales, underscoring their mutual commitment to innovation and excellence in military aviation. This choice by Pilatus marks a new step for Thales, which, since April 2024, has strengthened its portfolio in the cockpit connectivity and secure communications sector with the acquisition of Cobham Aerospace Communications. Thales’s radio management system was chosen for its ability to meet the…

General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council Mar 15, 2026 General Secretariat – Riyadh 1. The Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the United Kingdom held an extraordinary meeting on March 12, 2026 to discuss the escalation in the Middle East and the blatant aggression by Iran and its regional proxies against the GCC countries and Jordan. 2. The GCC side was headed by His Excellency Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain and Chairman of the current session of the GCC Ministerial Council. The UK side was headed by…

After the Gulf War’s air campaign concluded in February 1991, U.S. commanders were confident that airpower had destroyed the bulk of Iraq’s Republican Guard before the ground offensive ever began. A subsequent General Accounting Office review found they were wrong and identified why. The Republican Guard was among the “least measurable” target categories in the entire campaign. About a third of reported F-117 strikes either lacked corroborating evidence or conflicted with other data, putting the probability of a successful F-117 strike between 41 and 60 percent. Commanders had mistaken reduced enemy activity for the physical destruction of enemy capacity.That analytical…