Europe’s Future Cruise Missiles Set for Use On Ships Too
Next-generation cruise missiles to be developed within the scope of MBDA’s FC/ASW programme will not only be deployed from fighter jets but also from warships.
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Navy / Maritime
Weapon / Missile
Weapon / Missile
Mysterious Missile Hits Ukraine with Multiple Warheads
Ukraine claimed that a conventionally armed ICBM hit the Dnipro region as footage of multiple high-speed projectiles spread.
Weapon / Missile
Russia Reportedly Intercepts SCALP-EG Cruise Missile
Russia has reportedly intercepted a French-made SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missile often used by Ukrainian Su-24 interdictors.
Weapon / Missile
UK Reveals that Italy Provides Ukraine Storm Shadows
British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that Italy had provided Ukraine with long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
Air
Kazakhstan Sells Its Soviet-Era Aircraft to the U.S.
It has been reported by both Russian and Ukrainian media that Kazakhstan has sold 81 combat aircraft from the USSR period.
Bilateral Relations
Ukraine Strikes Russian-Guided Bomb Storage
Recently, Ukraine launched an attack on a Russian storage facility for UMPK-winged bomb guidance kits located near the border.
Weapon / Missile
Investment
Greece’s Storm Shadow / SCALP to Rely on MBDA
MBDA announced that it would perform the mid-life refurbishment of Greece’s Storm Shadow / SCALP missiles.
Weapon / Missile
UK Sends ‘Storm Shadow’ Missiles to Ukraine
British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has confirmed in the House of Commons that the UK is donating Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.
Air
Weapon / Missile
Storm Shadow fails soon after being operational on Typhoon
Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 fighter jets failed with conventionally armed Storm Shadow for the first time in combat in northern Iraq on March 10th.
Weapon / Missile
Storm Shadow Becomes Operational
British Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 fighter jets have employed the conventionally armed Storm Shadow cruise missile for the first time in combat.
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...
