Defense News Army 2025
French Rafale fighter carried out a strike against a sea target with a 1,000 kg AASM bomb
According to reporting by French defense outlet Opex360 and information from the French procurement agency DGA, a Rafale Marine in the latest F4.1 ...
New Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle contract modification protects U.S. armored vehicle production
A new contract move out of Detroit Arsenal is quietly shaping the next phase of the Armored Multi Purpose Vehicle program. On 5 December 2025, Army...
Australia Unveils Slinger Counter-Drone Weapon as LAND 156 Trials Highlight New Layered Defense
Australia publicly demonstrated a new counter-small drone capability at Cultana that pairs Leidos integration with the EOS Slinger hard kill system...
Italy Selects 658 More SMR6 Trucks To Boost Mobility For Next-Generation Brigade Operations
Italy has ordered 658 additional SMR6 tactical logistics trucks from IDV, expanding its 2024 procurement and pushing total deliveries to 2,111 vehi...
Castelion secures $350 million to ramp up U.S Blackbeard hypersonic missile output
Castelion’s latest funding round, announced on 5 December and backed by major investors including Altimeter Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners...
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. M60 tanks reborn as light tank killers with John Cockerill 3105 105mm turret at EDEX 2025
Belgian Company John Cockerill Defense used the EDEX 2025 exhibition to preview how a Cold War staple could be pushed into a new era, presenting a ...
Taiwan's Thunder Tiger targets U.S. Army Drone Dominance drone orders
Taiwan based manufacturer Thunder Tiger is moving to join the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program, a high volume effort to field over 200,000 small ...
U.S. Marines To Expand Precision Strike Power with Advanced Rogue 1 Loitering Munitions
On December 5, 2025, Teledyne FLIR Defense announced that the U.S. Marine Corps had awarded the company a 42.5 million USD contract under the Organ...
U.S. Abrams SEPv3 Tank Trials PERCH Loitering Munition Launcher for Beyond Line of Sight Strikes
On December 5, 2025, General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) announced that it had successfully demonstrated its new Precision Effects & Reconnaissanc...
U.S security strategy reshapes NATO burden sharing and tests Europe’s defense future
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy sets out the clearest break yet from three decades of US global activism, recasting Europ...
U.S expands South Korea's precision strike power with $111.8 million GBU-39B bomb sale
A notification issued by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency on 5 December 2025 confirms United States approval for a new tranche of GBU 39B Sm...
U.S. supports Poland with 250 Stryker armored combat vehicles in a symbolic one-dollar transfer
Poland is moving toward a landmark deal to take over roughly 250 American Stryker armored personnel carriers for a symbolic one dollar, according t...