US Navy announces a new frigate class 19/12/2025 | TOMMASO MASSA In a video message released on its social media channels, the Secretary of the US Navy, John Phelan, announced the development and construction of a… [read more]

From the United States $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan 19/12/2025 | Editorial Team The US Department of State has approved 8 potential Foreign Military Sales (FMS) cases, with a total value of approximately $11.1 billion, to the Taipei… [read more]

Marines activate 3 new companies at Camp Schwab base in Okinawa 19/12/2025 | Fabio Di Felice The U.S. Marine Corps has announced the activation of 3 new companies at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, as part of the ongoing implementation of Force Design 2030… [read more]

A preliminary analysis of the Ukrainian UUV attack on Novorossiysk 17/12/2025 | Massimo Annati A large part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has for some time been forced to withdraw to the naval base of Novorossiysk, as the… [read more]

Taiwan releases its 2025 National Defense Report 17/12/2025 | Fabio Di Felice The Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) has released its 18th National Defense Report (2025), published in accordance with Article 30 of the National Defense Act.… [read more]

Ukrainian underwater drone strikes russian KILO submarine in Novorossiysk: a first 15/12/2025 | Editorial Team A new chapter in the Black Sea naval war opened this afternoon: the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) released a video documenting an attack via… [read more]

New NATO E-3 SENTRY Replacement Option 15/12/2025 | Fabio Di Felice Following NATO’s decision to abandon the acquisition of 6 Boeing E-7A WEDGETAIL Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft as a replacement for the ageing… [read more]

Trump's National Security Strategy 05/12/2025 | Pietro Batacchi The new US National Security Strategy, drafted by the second Trump Administration, has been released. The document reflects many of the elements outlined by the tycoon… [read more]

Israel Delivers the First ARROW 3 Battery to Germany 04/12/2025 | Francesca Genovese On 3 December, Israel delivered the first ARROW 3 battery to the German Air Force during a ceremony at Holzdorf Air Base, approximately 120 km… [read more]

Air-to-Air Missiles on Russian GERAN-2 Drones 04/12/2025 | Francesca Genovese A video released on X on 1 December shows the in-flight interception of a SHAHED-136 (GERAN-2) armed with an R-60 missile. The Russian drone was… [read more]

Jihadists in Mali and the fuel war 02/12/2025 | Francesca Genovese For the past two and a half months, a blockade on the “strategic” roads linking Mali to Senegal and Mauritania—imposed by al-Qaeda–affiliated jihadists (Jama’at Nusrat… [read more]

Lockheed Martin and Diehl to work together on bringing IRIS-T SLM into AEGIS 28/11/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Helmut Rauch, CEO of Diehl Defence, and Chandra Marshall, Vice President at Lockheed Martin, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Berlin Security Conference, agreeing… [read more]

Leonardo unveils MICHELANGELO DOME, its new integrated defence system 28/11/2025 | Andrea Mottola Yesterday in Rome, Leonardo presented its new integrated defence system: MICHELANGELO DOME. Designed to counter emerging threats in an increasingly complex global environment, the project… [read more]

Belgium prepares the return to 2 combat brigades 27/11/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Belgium’s current single, large Motorised Brigade will formally split into 2 on 3 February 2026, confirming plans formulated earlier in 2025 as Defence spending increases… [read more]

General Atomics and Saab to test the AEW solution for the MQ-9B already in the summer 26/11/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli After announcing their teaming up earlier this year, GA-ASI and Saab have now announced an ambitious target to conduct flight operations with their AEW (Airborne… [read more]

The US Navy cancels the CONSTELLATION program, with no one to blame but itself 26/11/2025 | Pietro Batacchi After delays and cost increases, the US Navy has finally announced the cancellation of the CONSTELLATION-class frigate program, based on the Italian FREMM design. Fincantieri… [read more]

Japan to deploy Type 03 CHU SAM air defence systems 70 miles from Taiwan 25/11/2025 | Editorial Team Japan’s new Defence Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, has announced plans to deploy an unspecified number of Type 03 CHU SAM medium-range air and missile defence systems… [read more]

General Atomics presents GAMBIT 6 CCA for air-to-ground operations 21/11/2025 | Fabio Di Felice General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has recently announced a new platform of its GAMBIT unmanned Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) series, built and enhanced for… [read more]

Roll-out of the first German and Norwegian LEOPARD 2A8 Main Battle Tanks 20/11/2025 | Eugenio Po Yesterday, 19 November, in Munich, and in the presence of German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, the official presentation ceremony was held for the first units… [read more]

Germany picks the C-UAV ENFORCER missile by MBDA for its SKYRANGER 19/11/2025 | Fabio Di Felice Following a Letter of Intent (LOI) signed by Rheinmetall Electronics and MBDA Deutschland at ILA last year, German lawmakers approved a funding proposal to develop… [read more]