Defense News Army 2025
Poland Secures $780M U.S. Javelin Anti-Tank Missile Deal to Boost NATO Eastern Flank Defense
The U.S. State Department has approved a $780 million Foreign Military Sale of more than 2,500 U.S. Javelin anti-tank missiles and 253 lightweight ...
Report: Israel’s Operational Iron Beam Ushers in a New Era of Drone and Rocket Defense
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, working with Israel’s Ministry of Defense, announced on 17 september 2025, that the Iron Beam 450 has completed it...
Russia Expands BMPT Terminator Orders for 2026 Weighing Export Strategy Against Domestic Demand
According to the TASS news agency in an article dated September 14, 2025, the director of the “Uralvagonzavod” group (part of Rostec), Alexander Po...
Report: US Japan Integrate NMESIS Anti-ship System and MADIS Air Defence Near Taiwan in Clear Signal to China
On September 17, 2025, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force presented side by side their main missile systems, including t...
U.S. Army Oklahoma National Guard tests counter-drone tactics in Thunderstruck 2.0 exercise
On September 13, 2025, the Oklahoma Army National Guard’s 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team wrapped up its training year with Exercise Thunderstruc...
Analysis: US Drone Policy Reform Confronts Chinese UAV Influence and Reinforces Allied Defense
Since 2017, Washington has pushed to soften the MTCR restrictions on Category I drones. That effort is now fully visible: in September 2025, the St...
Latvia Dispatches Patria 6×6 Armoured Personnel Carrier Brigade to Elevate Ukraine’s Mobility
On September 16, 2025, the Latvian Ministry of Defence announced the delivery of a new batch of Patria 6x6 armored personnel carriers (APCs) to the...
Lithuania's Granta Autonomy X-WING Loitering Munition Features VTOL Fixed Wing Concept For Modern Battlefields
On September 18, 2025, Lithuanian drone manufacturer Granta Autonomy unveiled its new X-WING loitering munition system, as reported by Granta Auton...
Poland confirms delivery of 160 K2 tanks 192 K9 howitzers and 126 Homar-K rocket launchers from South Korea
According to information released by Poland’s Armament Agency (Agencja Uzbrojenia) and relayed by defense analyst Tomasz Dmitruk on X (formerly Twi...
New ASCV G5 Ragnarok 120mm self-propelled mortar fires 20 rounds per minute to support rapid attacks
At DSEI 2025 in London, the German company Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft (FFG) publicly presented for the first time an ACSV G5 configured a...
Britain’s New Autonomous Drone TigerShark Signals a Shift in Deep Strike Alternatives to Cruise Missiles
At the DSEI exhibition in London, MGI Engineering’s defence division unveiled the TigerShark, a single-use autonomous effecter the company describe...
Breaking News: US Army will test first M1E3 Abrams tank prototypes in 2026 to learn from the Ukrainian war
As reported by Defense Daily on September 9, 2025, the US Army has decided to accelerate the M1E3 Abrams modernization program, with four prototype...