Rutte urges industry to ramp up arms output for NATO
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the defence industry to speed up production and innovation, telling a forum at NATO headquarters that next month's Ankara summit must be about combat-ready capabilities, not just cash.
UK speeds Middle East support via early industry talks
The Ministry of Defence says earlier engagement with industry is speeding up military support to the Middle East, with 37 of 47 export licences expedited and new work under way to ease shortages in sensors, rocket motors and energetics.
Leonardo deal lets IDV build the Viking UGV at scale
Three months on from Leonardo's completed takeover of Iveco Defence Vehicles, the managing director of its British uncrewed arm says the deal has finally handed the company the vehicle engineering and industrial scale it needs.
British-built brain lets UGVs navigate when GPS goes down
The British-built brain inside IDV's uncrewed vehicles can navigate with no satellite signal at all, and we got to see it in action.
Leonardo’s IDV unveils uncrewed light tank at Eurosatory
IDV, a Leonardo company, has revealed at Eurosatory 2026 the CL2X, a hybrid uncrewed light tank designed to act as a robotic wingman to crewed main battle tanks.
British troops test drone war tactics near Russian border
Soldiers from 3rd Battalion The Rifles have joined Finland's Kainuu Brigade for Exercise Northern Star, around 43 miles from the Russian border.
Badenoch offers support to fund warfare through welfare cuts
Kemi Badenoch has written to Keir Starmer offering Conservative votes to cut the welfare bill and redirect the savings to defence, telling the Prime Minister it is time to "get serious" after the resignations of John Healey and Al Carns.
UK eyes huge Falkland Islands support contract
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation has begun market engagement on a facilities management contract for British forces in the Falkland and Ascension Islands worth an estimated GBP 500 million, running for ten years from 2030 with a possible extension to 2040.
Carns warns ‘UK not ready’ after MoD resignation
Al Carns, who quit as Armed Forces Minister alongside John Healey over the Defence Investment Plan, has warned that "the next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone" and that Britain is "not being honest about what getting ready will cost".
BAE unveils new digital artillery fire control system
BAE Systems is launching a Next Generation Indirect Fire Control System at Eurosatory in Paris, a digital fire control capability the company says connects individual guns to wider sensor networks for faster targeting.
