Defense Industry
Lockheed Martin puts $300 million into Grand Prairie, Texas, as it expands munitions production
The company says the Texas site will support PAC-3 MSE, THAAD, PrSM and JATM, with a Hadrian machining cell due…
Newsroom
Ioannis M.
Ioannis is the founder and owner of NEMESIS HD, the independent Greek news outlet on defence and geopolitics that he started in 2014, and the publisher of Geopolitiki.com, its English-language edition. He writes about Greek and Cypriot defence, Greek-Turkish relations and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Africa
UN envoy Tetteh tells Security Council to “hold spoilers accountable” as Libya’s election agreement stalls
Hanna Serwaa Tetteh says the High Council of State rejected the 30 August agreement on a path to elections, as…
Military & Defense
Russia fires 39 ballistic missiles and 128 drones at Ukrainian energy: 600,000 without power, dead in Kharkiv and Lutsk
Russia launched a massed combined attack on Ukraine overnight on October 14 with 39 ballistic missiles and 128 drones, mainly…
Europe
NATO’s Rutte in Estonia: defence spending above 5% of GDP and a new €10 million for PURL
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met Estonia's leaders and Allied air personnel at Ämari, saying Estonia's core defence spending is…
Drones
Poland orders an urgent strategic review of drones, cheap long-range weapons and new technologies, as Kosiniak-Kamysz visits exercise Blue Eye-26
Poland’s Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has ordered the armed forces’ leadership to carry out an urgent “small strategic review” of…
Africa
IPC warns of growing famine risk in Darfur and Kordofan as war and drought converge in Sudan
The UN-backed IPC says fresh evidence points to a rapidly worsening hunger and malnutrition situation in Greater Darfur and Greater…
Middle East & North Africa
Houthi missile hits an Aramco building at its Dhahran headquarters, with new threats to airports and oil facilities
A Houthi missile struck an administrative building in the Aramco headquarters compound in Dhahran overnight on October 13-14, and the…
Military & Defense
BAE Systems at AUSA 2026: the MDACS gun with HVP rounds and a high-power microwave weapon against drone swarms
BAE Systems showed the Multi-Domain Artillery Cannon System (MDACS) and a High Power Microwave (HPM) weapon at AUSA 2026, presenting…
Politics & Diplomacy
UN General Assembly elects 15 members to the Human Rights Council, including Ukraine, Germany and Japan
The General Assembly filled 15 of the Human Rights Council's 47 seats by secret ballot on 13 October, with terms…
Defense Industry
Leopard 2: RENK and KNDS extend gearbox contract by €130 million for the HSWL 354 transmission
Germany’s RENK and KNDS Deutschland have extended their contract for the Leopard 2’s drive system, with the extension worth about…
Drones
VAMPIRE: US Army receives first L3Harris counter-drone systems two months after the order
L3Harris has begun delivering VAMPIRE counter-drone systems to the US Army, with the first units arriving within two months of…
Europe
Argentina asks maritime tribunal to order UK to halt Falklands Sea Lion oil project
Argentina has filed a request with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for provisional measures against the…