Defense News Army 2025
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...
Denmark leads NATO drills in Greenland without U.S. as Arctic tensions with Russia grow
Denmark’s Armed Forces announced and then publicly documented Arctic Light 2025 through a series of official updates. The exercise runs in Greenlan...
Analysis: Starlink disruption exposes limits of Ukrainian battlefield reliance on U.S. private company
Robert Magyar Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, announced on September 17,2025, on his Telegram channel that Starlink had gon...
U.S. faces competition in military AI race from French Asgard new defense supercomputer
According to the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, France has inaugurated Asgard, a classified artificial intelligence supercomputer purpose bui...
Red Sands 2025: U.S. and Saudi Arabia test 20 counter-drone systems in record Middle East drills
According to information published by U.S. Central Command on September 17, 2025, the United States and Saudi Arabia have completed the largest cou...