Defense News Army 2025
U.S. Army advances Northrop Grumman’s next-gen threat detection for aircraft survivability
Maryland, United States, October 9, 2025 — The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S) has ...
Foudre MLRS adopts Airbus EFCS aims for rapid deep-strike fielding with French Army
Turgis & Gaillard, in partnership with Airbus Defence and Space, announced the adoption of the European Fire Control System for the Foudre long-ran...
French Army Tests River-Launched Drone Swarm From Engineer Craft
France’s Army Technical Section (STAT) and the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment conducted an autumn evaluation of a river-borne drone swarm, flying Pa...
Defending the Skies: Aselsan’s ATOM Airburst Ammunition Takes Aim at Drone Warfare
On 7 October 2025, at Aselsan’s Gölbaşı facilities near Ankara, the company hosted an in-depth Press Day attended by Army Recognition Group. The pr...
U.S. War on Cartels Is Changing the Balance of Power Off Venezuela’s Coast
The crisis in Venezuela has entered a new phase: after a series of US strikes on boats suspected of narcotrafficking offshore, Washington rapidly r...
Back to Great Power Rivalry and Nuclear Risk as Russia Quits US Plutonium Pact
According to Reuters on 8 October 2025, the Duma approved Russia’s withdrawal from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement, signed in 20...
U.S. tank units train in real battlefield conditions in case of a conflict in Europe
According to information published by the U.S. Department of War on October 7, 2025, tank crews from 1-16 Infantry, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team...
North Korea unveils its own version of Russia’s Pantsir air defense system
North Korea presented a new short-range air defense system, informally called the “Pantsir-NK,” at the “Development of National Defense 2025” exhib...
L3Harris Urges Realistic Missile Defense Testing to Accelerate Interceptor Fielding
Defense News on Oct. 6, 2025, published an opinion piece by Scott Alexander (L3Harris/Aerojet Rocketdyne) urging missile defense programs to test u...
How Civilian Tech Is Powering China’s Army to Rival the US
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) published an issue brief in September 2025 detailing how the PLA mobilizes civilian AI using...
Inside How U.S. Army’s New Integrated Battle Command System Counters Air and Missile Threats
White Sands Missile Range, N.M., United States 08:40 AM (CEST) - The U.S. Army confirmed on October 2, 2025, that its Integrated Battle Command Sys...
Ukraine claims 40 Bohdana artillery systems a month matching combined European production
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used Kyiv’s third International Defense Industries Forum to argue that Ukraine’s domestic arms sector has shifted int...