[New] Defence agencies across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific have allocated US$ 3.2 billion through 2030 for eVTOL evaluation and procurement.
Persistence Market Research
[New] Germany plans $77 B over five years - potentially the world's third-largest defence budget by 2030.
ScenarioAtlas AI
[New] The Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defence system might get $17.5 billion in fiscal 2027.
Federal News Network
[New] Greater European autonomy in space-based military capabilities is still a long way away, according to a new study from the defence and security think-tank International Institute for Strategic Studies, possibly reaching beyond the late 2030s.
Euronews
[New] Europe is officially levelling up its orbital armour, yet while major defence upgrades are planned by 2030, the road to total independence from global superpowers remains costly.
Euronews
[New] In partnership with the Swedish Armed Forces and FMV, Saab is developing and deploying an advanced C-UAS system that offers proven, adaptable and cost-efficient layered defence against modern drone threats.
Start
[New] US and allied navies will need robotic and autonomous systems, supported by AI-enabled C2 and sensor processing, to fill likely anti-submarine warfare capacity gaps.
Hudson Institute
[New] Revenue projections for 2028 reach upward of $150 million, driven by AI-powered drone fleets and the continuing expansion of U.S. military and commercial drone deployments that require hardened communications links.
Morningstar, Inc.
[New] Germany will buy 2,500 FV-014 drones from Rheinmetall (€300 million order, €120k per unit), about 4,300 HX-2 drones from Helsing (€268 million order, €62,500 per unit) and 2,200 drones from Peter Thiel's Stark Defence (€268 million order, €122,000 per unit).
Sarcastosaurus
[New] By the second quarter of 2026, Canada will release a plan to expand the production, processing, stocking, and procurement of defence-released critical minerals.
Torys LLP
[New] Between 2026 and 2027, the European Defence Industry Programme allocates €1.5 billion to member states' defence procurement cooperation, manufacturing skills, and production gaps.
Euronews
[New] The newest proposal, the Programme for Agile and Rapid Defence Innovation, would invest €115 million in disruptive defence technologies like AI, quantum technologies, and drones.
Euronews
[New] The UK and France are leading joint programs to develop sovereign laser weapon systems, ensuring that European militaries are not entirely reliant on American technology to protect their airspace from asymmetric swarm threats.
openpr
[New] Trump has said he will be seeking to boost defence spending to $1.5 trillion from less than $1 trillion in the current fiscal year.
gCaptain
[New] US President Donald Trump has proposed a huge increase in defence spending, alongside a 10% cut in non-defence spending, for the 2027 fiscal year.
SKY
[New] The PRC could use AI-enabled swarm technology to overwhelm advanced air defences in Taiwan and US military infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific during a conflict.
American Enterprise Institute - AEI
[New] US Navy submarines would likely play a decisive role in a conflict between the United States and the PRC, as they are far less vulnerable than the US surface fleet to the PRC's anti-access and area denial network and can threaten high-end assets throughout the Pacific.
American Enterprise Institute - AEI
[New] Imagine a world where artificial super intelligence conducts combined arms warfare across all domains of war, using quantum computing, robotics, predictive logistics and nanotechnology.
U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center
[New] NATO defence spending will rise to 2.8% of GDP in 2026, and is set to climb to 3.5% of GDP in 2029 in accordance with the fiscal plan.
Bundesministerium der Finanzen
