German firms test a drone boat fired from torpedo tubes
Two German defense companies just proved a submarine can fire a scout instead of a torpedo, completing sea trials of an uncrewed boat small enough to launch from a standard torpedo tube and surface on its own to spy on an enemy without ever putting the submarine itself at risk. GABLER, a German firm known [β¦]
Two European defense ministers who normally answer only to the citizens of neutral countries walked through a Zurich weapons factory together this week, and what they saw helps explain why a small Swiss suburb has quietly become one of the most important addresses in Europeβs air defense industry. Switzerlandβs Federal Councillor Martin Pfister and Austriaβs [β¦]