Air Force
X-BAT: US and company commitments to Shield AI’s unmanned fighter reach $400 million
The US Navy has added $150 million to its existing agreement for the X-BAT, Shield AI’s AI-piloted vertical-takeoff fighter, and…
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Cyprus
Cyprus: Cabinet approves 400 contract NCO posts for National Guard contract soldiers
Cyprus’s Cabinet approved on October 8 the recruitment of 400 contract non-commissioned officers from the National Guard’s contract soldiers (SYOP).…
Drones
Lithuania receives first batch of Switchblade 600 loitering munitions
Lithuania’s armed forces have received the first batch of AeroVironment Switchblade 600 loitering munitions, the Lithuanian defence ministry announced. Greece,…
Defense Industry
Romania orders 12 H225M helicopters through SAFE to replace its Pumas
Romania has ordered 12 Airbus H225M military helicopters through the French procurement agency DGA, funded under the EU’s SAFE instrument,…
Middle East & North Africa
USS Abraham Lincoln: 450 Tomahawks and 3,693 sorties in the Iran war, homecoming after a record stretch at sea
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group launched 450 Tomahawk cruise missiles and flew…
Military & Defense
Ukraine reportedly strikes Tver plant making fuel for Kh-101 missiles; fire at Belgorod fuel depot
Ukraine reportedly attacked the Redkino Experimental Plant in Russia’s Tver region overnight on October 9, a factory said to make…
Analysis
Analysis: Aster 30 B1NT, Europe’s new anti-ballistic missile, and what it means for Greece’s FDI frigates
Analysis: The Aster 30 B1NT is the new version of Europe’s Aster 30 missile, designed to intercept ballistic missiles with…
Analysis
Analysis: Chios, 8 October 1996, anatomy of the Mirage 2000 and F-16D dogfight that was never closed
Analysis, 30 years on: what is known about the 8 October 1996 engagement off Chios in which a Turkish F-16D…
Analysis
Analysis: the Stryker 8×8 armoured vehicle, its variants and its combat record
Analysis: the Stryker is not one vehicle but a family. Where it came from, what separates the M1126 from the…
Analysis
Analysis: KSS-III, the Korean submarine with vertical launch cells offered to Greece by Hanwha and HD Hyundai
Analysis: Hanwha Ocean has proposed four KSS-III Batch II submarines to the Hellenic Navy, built jointly in Greece with ONEX,…
Analysis
Analysis: Greece’s Patriot batteries, their configuration, modernisation, PAC-3 MSE and ELDYSA’s combat experience
Analysis: Greece operates six Patriot batteries, bought under a 1999 contract, and the one deployed in Saudi Arabia since 2021…
Air Force
Shield AI and GEK TERNA eye the X-BAT unmanned fighter: agreement on an industrial and support base in Greece
US company Shield AI and Greece’s GEK TERNA signed a strategic agreement in Athens to pursue parts production, aircraft integration…