Scorpio-XR extends artillery reach beyond Excalibur
The US Army and BAE Systems tested the new Scorpio-XR projectile, achieving longer range and precision than Excalibur in a major step for future artillery.
Excalibur News
Ammunition
Land
Weapon / Missile
Expo and Air Show
IDET2025: VENOM LR on Patriot II 4x4 and Czech RCWS
Excalibur Army’s Patriot II 4x4 vehicle with Unirobotics TRAKON RCWS and (separately) GLADIUS MAX RCWS were displayed with the VENOM LR revolver cannon.
Ammunition
Denmark Acquires M982A1Excalibur Tactical Projectiles
The US State Department has approved a probable foreign military sale (FMS) of Excalibur Projectiles to Denmark for a cost of $121 million.
E/W
Ammunition
TOLUN SDB Hits Target Under Intense GNSS Jamming
ASELSAN’s TOLUN Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) dropped from an F-16 fighter successfully hit its target under intense GNSS jamming.
E/W
Ammunition
U.S. Weapons Lose Effectiveness Against Russian Jamming
The accuracy of the M-982 Excalibur guided artillery has decreased by 90 per cent in Ukraine due to Russian Electronic Warfare systems that jam ammunition.
Weapon / Missile
Azerbaijan gets DITA 155 mm SPH units from Czechia
The Czech defence company Excalibur Army plans to send more than 70 DITA 155 mm self-propelled howitzer (SPH) units to Azerbaijan.
Ammunition
Spain Acquires Excalibur Projectiles
The U.S. has decided to sell Excalibur Projectiles to Spain with an estimated cost of $48.2 million.
Expo and Air Show
Investment
TÜBİTAK SAGE and Excalibur Army to Cooperate on KUZGUN
TÜBİTAK SAGE signed an MoU with Czechian Excalibur Army, focussing on KUZGUN-guided modular ammunition for developing and producing land weapons systems.
Land
Second Tour of Kenya Mystery
Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) plan to acquire 8X8 Armoured Vehicles to manage its counterterrorism operations against Al-Shabaab terrorists better.
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...
