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Germany has overtaken China to become the world’s fourth-largest arms exporter, according to a new global weapons transfer report released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The annual assessment reviews major conventional weapons transfers worldwide during the 2021–2025 period and shows Germany moving ahead of China in total export volume. The shift reflects […]

South Korea’s president said this week that some U.S. air defense systems stationed on the Korean peninsula could be deployed overseas as the United States’ war with Iran intensifies, a move that highlights how the ongoing conflict could force Washington to shift scarce missile defense assets across regions. President Lee Jae Myung said during a cabinet meeting that U.S forces may dispatch some air defense systems abroad, depending on how the Middle East conflict unfolds, despite opposition voiced by Seoul. Lee acknowledged that it cannot bar the U.S. from relocating its own assets, but said that the country’s own defenses…

As the Ukraine war has shown, drones equipped with thermal sensors have made the battlefield so hazardous that the best defense is not to be spotted at all.Thus, the U.S. Marine Corps is looking for camouflage cloaks that shield wearers from prying eyes and infrared cameras, according to a Marine Corps Systems Command Sources Sought notice. The Multispectral Camouflage Overgarment, or MCO, “is intended to provide individual signature management for Marines by mitigating detection across the visual (VIS), near infrared (NIR), and short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectrums as well as suppress thermal signatures in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long wave…

To analyze a war accurately, one must apply an analytical framework suited to its actual character. This requirement is nowhere more evident than in assessments of the Gaza War between Israel and Hamas. Much commentary on the conflict has implicitly measured it against a perceived “gold standard” of humane warfare: restrained campaigns emphasizing separation between insurgents and civilians, dismounted ground operations, and expansive humanitarian assistance designed to win “hearts and minds.”This model is often drawn from interpretations of Western experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, including battles such as Fallujah, Mosul, and the surge. Those wars encompassed multiple modes of warfare:…

Some of Ukraine’s best-known drone military commanders and experts will be visiting Washington later this month to brief policymakers and defense leaders on the rapidly evolving landscape of modern drone warfare. The Ground Truth Symposium will be hosted on March 25 by the Peace Through Strength Institute, a foreign policy and defense think tank based in Washington. The event promises to translate “Ukraine’s frontline reality into clearer congressional understanding of the war, the capabilities shaping it and the conditions required to help bring it to an end on terms consistent with both Ukraine’s survival and United States strategic interests,” according…

Evolution Space hypersonic launch past the Karman Line, April 2023. Credit: Evolution Space/PRNewswire. X-Bow Systems has entered into an agreement to acquire Evolution Space, a provider of “rapidly-responsive” solid rocket motors (SRMs). The acquisition will enhance X-Bow’s production capacity and hypersonic technology to address “urgent” Department of Defense (DoD) requirements and support the “reindustrialisation” of the US defence sector, X-Bow said in a statement released on 10 March 2026. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Evolution Space produces solid rocket motors for space…

CSG Group and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (PGZ) have signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement that establishes the foundation for further deepening industrial, technological, and business cooperation. The agreement creates a basis for joint development and production projects covering, among others, engines for the next generation of unmanned systems and missiles, the ammunition segment, and modern land platforms. The document also opens the possibility for joint participation in defence programs implemented within the European Union and NATO. The framework agreement was signed in the presence of the Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of State Assets, Konrad Gołota, and the…

The era of autonomous warfare will not announce itself with robotic armies marching across battlefields. Instead, it is already emerging, quietly and inexorably, in the skies and fields of eastern Ukraine (and to a lesser degree in the Middle East), where missions are increasingly executed by machines at speeds no human can match and electronic warfare is severing the links between operators and their machines. Very soon, autonomous systems will no longer operate individually; over time, they will form platoon- or even battalion-sized units that share information and coordinate without human intervention. And the side that waits for human approval…

Terry Gerton I want you to first tell us about this 21st Theater Sustainment Command Innovation Lab. Why are you setting up a makerspace in Europe? Maj. Ron White Absolutely. So again, I’m Maj. Ron White, the chief of innovations for the 21st Theater Sustainment Command. I just want to talk to you about the way we solve problems by establishing a true culture of innovation across the theater. And that’s a really big part of it. We’re going to accomplish this through two big and connected efforts. The first one is an innovation program to culminate and cultivate ideas…

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