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Leonardo has unveiled Guardian Vantage, a new land-based Electronic Warfare (EW) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) capability which detects, recognises, identifies and locates enemy emissions on the battlefield. The system is designed for use on land vehicles, ships, or for mounting onto shelters. Modern operations are increasingly shaped by how effectively forces can sense and understand the electromagnetic environment. Guardian Vantage provides real time battlefield intelligence on emitting enemy systems such as radars, uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and communications. This information can then be exploited by friendly forces for surveillance and target acquisition, to ultimately understand who the enemy is, where…

Echodyne and Moog validated Vengeance system upgrades for counter-UAS operations. Credit: © Echodyne Corp. Defence technology firms Echodyne and Moog have completed testing of counter-UAS systems designed to identify and engage small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) in battlefield conditions.   This assessment formed part of Operation Condor Rebirth, which took place at Fort Hood, Texas and evaluated integrated solutions that combined radar, artificial intelligence (AI) targeting, and weapon station controls.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more During the exercise, Moog’s modular weapons platform was connected with Echodyne’s EchoShield radar, enabling interoperability with US Army…

It has taken the Trump administration just two months to race through all five years of the Johnson administration’s Vietnam policy: entry, escalation, frustrated stalemate, and negotiations. Now, it’s on the Nixon administration’s turf: first blustery threats, then gradual realization of the need to extricate via an unsatisfying deal. If this pace holds, the intervention in Iran should be over in another few months, by which point the recriminations will already have begun.Of course, no historical analogies are perfect, and there are many obvious differences between the conflicts in Iran and Vietnam: different regions, different ideologies at play, a much…

Turkish Land Forces have expressed a requirement for a Class 2 UGV and Tekatron, one of the main national players in ground robotics, unveiled at EFES 2026, the main Turkish military exercise, its new W-UGV-I, a 4×4 wheeled platform designed to cope with the needs of the national army clck on image to enlarge Ground robotic is picking-up pace among armies, and the Turkish Land Forces are definitely looking for unmanned solutions to reduce the risk for the soldiers and increase units effectiveness. At the industry display linked to the EFES 2026 exercise Tekatron showcased its W-UGV-I, the “W” indicating…

09:04 20.5.2026 Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said the Iranian government’s financial resources are “running out” and that the country’s economy is “in a state of collapse.” He added, however, that the Islamic republic, “instead of turning to a new and peaceful approach, has carried out repeated and brazen attacks against civilian electricity infrastructure and continues to cling to a strategy of acquiring nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into darkness.” He stressed that “we cannot tolerate this and never will.” Waltz’s comments came as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi claimed Tehran had inflicted major…

Energy & Environment Energy Transitions Global Energy Agenda May 20, 2026 • 12:48 pm ET Print this page By Katie Hall Katie Hall is the CEO and co-chair of Galvanize, a global asset manager investing at the intersection of energy innovation, resilience, and intelligence. This essay is part of the 2026 Global Energy Agenda. In many markets, clean energy is now the lowest-cost form of new power generation, while demand for electricity is rising in ways few anticipated even a few years ago. By many measures, it is a strong moment for the energy transition. But progress has changed the nature…

The first thing that surprises people about the RCH 155 Howitzer is that it doesn’t behave like traditional artillery at all.Most self-propelled guns still follow an old battlefield rhythm: stop, deploy, fire, move.The RCH 155 skips half the routine. It can fire accurately while moving, something that sounded borderline unrealistic not long ago. In modern warfare, where drones and radar systems can detect artillery positions in seconds, that ability isn’t just impressive. It’s survival.Developed by KNDS, the RCH 155 Howitzer combines a fully automated 155mm gun module with the Boxer 8×8 armored platform.The result is a wheeled artillery system built…

On February 22, cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was killed in a hideout in the town of Tapalpa, a well-known tourist center in Mexico’s Jalisco state. The Mexican military soon presented a broad version of the events: the country’s intelligence agencies, aided by U.S. counterparts, had been closely tracking the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader and his associates for two days before elite Mexican forces launched a capture operation that turned violent, ending with El Mencho’s death. It was President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first operation against a major criminal leader, and probably not her last.Since beginning her…

The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is maximising frigate availability through developing its approach to maintenance and operations, the service has told Naval News. The details expand upon remarks by Admiral Nicolas Vaujour, the French Navy’s Chief of Staff, that the navy has built up the availability of its ‘first rank’ destroyer and frigate force to 80 percent. Speaking at the 2025 Paris Naval Conference, Adm Vaujour said: “Availability is one of my motivations because I have by law – [France’s] military planning law – 15 destroyers and frigates …. So, the way to have more ships is not to build…

ROME — Italy is to buy six Airbus A330 MRTT multi-role tanker transport aircraft in a €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) deal after 15 years of flying Boeing tankers.The purchase, which was announced by the European Union’s TED public procurement platform, envisages ten years of logistic support and indicates the A330 was the only aircraft in the bidding.The deal marks a shift from Boeing to Airbus for the Italian Air Force, which flies four Boeing 767-based tanker aircraft which entered service from 2011.In 2021 Italy announced plans to upgrade its B-767 tankers and purchase two more, but the following year Rome…