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Germany and France scale back their joint tank program

Germany and France just reduced one of Europe’s most ambitious tank programs to a single, carefully worded sentence about β€œplatform-independent technology,” and defense analysts reading between the lines say that sentence effectively confirms the joint program is dead in everything but name, Waldemar Geiger reported for the German defense outlet hartpunkt. The Main Ground Combat […]

HAMMR: built to hit hidden enemies and flying drones

A single soldier could soon carry a weapon capable of dropping an air-bursting grenade precisely over an enemy hiding behind a wall, then swinging the same weapon skyward to knock a small attack drone out of the air, and American Rheinmetall Munitions just released a new video showing off the rifle it’s betting will do […]

Rheinmetall wins nearly $1.1 billion UK training deal

German defense giant Rheinmetall has secured a contract worth just under €1 billion (roughly $1.1 billion) for its role in overhauling how the British Army trains its soldiers, part of a broader Β£2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion) government program that will replace traditional live exercises with a blended system of virtual, synthetic and data-driven training […]

Germany’s tank gift helps Czech Army finish modernization

The Czech Army held a handover ceremony on July 10 at the 73rd Tank Battalion’s base in PΕ™Γ‘slavice, a garrison town in the Olomouc region of eastern Czechia, marking the delivery of the final Leopard 2A4 in a fleet that now totals 42 tanks. The Leopard 2A4 is an earlier variant of Germany’s Leopard 2 […]

British drone boat firm raises $175M at $1B valuation

A British firm building uncrewed patrol boats for NATO navies just crossed the billion-dollar valuation mark, with Kraken Technology Group announcing the close of a $175 million Series B funding round on July 9 that values the company at $1 billion. The round, led by Digital Transformation Capital Partners, or DTCP, arrives less than a […]

RENK expands Rheinmetall deal as Lynx orders keep growing

German engineering firm RENK just locked in more than $308 million in future business keeping one of Europe’s newest tracked infantry vehicles actually moving, extending its transmission supply agreement with Rheinmetall for the KF41 Lynx on July 9. The expanded framework agreement, worth more than €270 million ($308.72 million) including options, covers the supply of […]
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