POLARIS to Develop a Hypersonic Test Aircraft for Germany
POLARIS Spaceplanes announced a deal with Germany’s BAAINBw to develop an experimental hypersonic aircraft for the development of reusable hypersonic platforms.
BAAINBw News
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Space
Weapon / Missile
Diehl and BAAINBw Sign Contract to develop IRIS-T Block II
German Defence Ministry’s BAAINBw and Diehl Defence signed the contract for the development and series production of the IRIS-T Block II Overall Missile System.
Ammunition
Record Order for Rheinmetall’s 155 mm Ammunition €8.5 Billion
Rheinmetall announced that it had received a contract from the German Federal Defence Ministry to deliver 155mm artillery ammunition worth up to €8.5 billion.
Air
German Navy Receives Final NH90 Sea Lion Helicopter
The last of 18 NH-90 Sea Lion naval multi-role transport helicopters were delivered to the Bundeswehr in Donauwörth on January 26, 2023.
Ammunition
127mm Vulcano Passes German Navy's Acceptance Tests
Bundeswehr announced that the German Navy, The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, BAAINBw qualified the 127mm Vulcano precision-guided munition.
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
