Germany and France just reduced one of Europe’s most ambitious tank programs to a single, carefully worded sentence about “platform-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 […]

Germany approved more weapons for export in six months than most countries manage in years, and the country that received the single biggest share of that approval, once again, is not a NATO member at all. It’s Ukraine. Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the government agency responsible for reviewing and approving […]

A brand new fighter jet lifted off from a runway in Bavaria for the first time this week, and the small crowd watching it climb into the sky understood something the average person scrolling past a headline might not: this single flight just bought Germany’s air force another 20 to 30 years of relevance in […]

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 […]

Germany’s DEUTZ AG, a 160-year-old engine manufacturer better known for building diesel motors than battle tanks, agreed on July 9 to buy FFG Flensburger Fahrzeugbau, one of Europe’s leading makers of armored vehicles, for €1.6 billion (roughly $1.83 billion). The deal marks the largest acquisition in the Cologne company’s history and signals a decisive break […]

The Czech Army held a handover ceremony on July 10 at the 73rd Tank Battalion’s base in Přáslavice, 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 […]

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 […]

Ukraine just secured a German promise to bankroll production of one of its most closely guarded new weapons, a jet-powered strike drone capable of hitting targets deep inside Russian territory, in a deal signed on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Ankara, Türkiye. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha announced the agreement on X, confirming […]

Germany’s military is preparing to become one of the largest owners of a satellite fleet on the planet, second only to Elon Musk’s Starlink, with plans to put as many as 1,200 satellites into orbit by 2030 as part of a sweeping bet that future wars will be won or lost based on who controls […]

A fellow NATO member state has placed a new order for thousands of German-made artillery shells that will end up in Ukrainian hands, German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall announced today, the latest sign that European allies are still funneling significant firepower to Kyiv even as global attention shifts toward other flashpoints. The contract, recognized in Rheinmetall’s […]

Lockheed Martin and German defense giant Rheinmetall signed a memorandum of understanding at the NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum in Ankara, Türkiye, to establish co-production of the ATACMS missile system in Europe. The agreement, backed by both the American and German governments, sets up a joint venture aimed at creating what the companies describe as […]

The United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden signed a joint government-to-government agreement at the NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum in Ankara, Türkiye, on July 7 to explore building a dedicated PAC-3 missile maintenance facility somewhere in Europe, a move Lockheed Martin says would give NATO its first in-region repair and sustainment hub for […]

Canada’s navy currently has four submarines and, on a good day, exactly one of them can put to sea. That is the reality Prime Minister Mark Carney used to justify what his government is now calling the largest defense purchase in Canadian history: a submarine fleet of up to 12 vessels built by Germany’s Thyssenkrupp […]