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The business talk: “Small and medium-sized businesses are often left out of the defense”

Florian Schauburg invests in high-tech companies around the world. In Germany he is hoping for a boost through armaments - and is struggling with a number of hurdles.

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27d06/14

Takaichi hails UK defence ties despite next-gen jet spending uncertainty

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hailed increasing defence cooperation with the UK during a meeting with her British counterpart Keir Starmer on Sunday, amid uncertainty about a new fighter jet programme. “The UK is a very important partner to Japan given the deepening of ties across a wide range of fields, including security and defence,” Takaichi said as she met with Starmer in London. “Given the GCAP project, I think we have reached a level that we can call a near-alliance,” she said,..

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28d06/14⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

Defense: Combat exercise in Lithuania – “In a war I would be dead now”

The Bundeswehr armored brigade “Lithuania” is practicing combat for the first time on NATO’s eastern flank. The new association is part of the deterrence, but also a test laboratory for the goal of war capability.

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28d06/14

Shell Plots $1B Wind Farms Sale

Shell is preparing to launch a sale of its offshore wind farms in the oil major's latest move away from renewable energy to focus on its higher-returning fossil fuel business.

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28d06/14

UK forces board sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker

The U.K.'s Ministry of Defence says the SMYRTOS was in the English Channel and will be held off the south coast during investigations.

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28d06/14

Arms industry: Rheinmetall is concerned about the German-French tank project

A project to build a new German-French fighter jet has just collapsed. There is concern in the defense industry that something similar will happen to a joint tank project.

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28d06/14⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

+++ Ukraine War +++: British forces intercept oil tankers from the Russian shadow fleet – confirms Starmer

Ukraine hits defense chemical plant and fuel storage facility in Russia +++ Zelensky announces trips to G7, EU and NATO summits +++ Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant back on the power grid +++ The news blog.

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28d06/14⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

Interview: French Army chief Schill talks technology, surprise and ‘archaic’ combat

"We should avoid excessive analogies. France is not Ukraine," said Gen. Pierre Schill in an interview ahead of the Eurosatory defense expo near Paris.

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28d06/14⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

How Iran used US ceasefire to replenish its depleted missile stockpiles

Western allies believe Iran has most likely added new-build Russian weapons to its inventory and reconstituted large swathes of its missile arsenal during the eight-week ceasefire, giving the Islamic Republic the firepower to strike back at nearly full strength if hostilities resume. Tehran has about three-quarters of the munitions it had before the war and can easily build it up further, according to intelligence assessments. That includes unspecified Russian missiles that probably came off the

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28d06/13⚠ war-conflict · 1/5

Slovenia lifts ban on arms trade with Israel

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28d06/13

Armed men in Haiti’s capital seize top official in rare high-level abduction

Armed men in Haiti have kidnapped James Boyard, cabinet director of the Defence Ministry and a highly respected security expert who also serves as inspector general of Haiti’s police, a person with the knowledge of the situation said on Saturday. He is the highest-ranking official to be kidnapped in the gang-wracked Caribbean country in recent years. A person with knowledge of the situation who was not authorised to speak publicly about the case confirmed the kidnapping to Associated Press on...

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28d06/13⚠ sanctions · 3/5

US strike kills leader of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, White House says

Venezuela’s information ministry said that during the operation there were clashes with members of criminal groups, in which the leader was neutralized.

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28d06/13⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

China accuses US of power abuse with expanded blacklist of Chinese firms

Beijing has warned of a resolute response to the Pentagon’s newly expanded blacklist of Chinese companies, accusing Washington of using national security as a pretext to curb the development of Chinese firms. The warning came after the US Defence Department released its updated Section 1260H list on Monday as required by American law, expanding the roster to 188 entities, up from 134 last year. The list names what the department says are “Chinese military companies” operating, directly or...

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29d06/13⚠ war-conflict · 1/5

Defense decoupling is no longer just a European fear

Ending Europe’s dependence on U.S. capabilities is one thing, denying allies the ability to defend themselves is an entirely different matter. submitted by /u/Any-Original-6113 [link] [comments]

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29d06/13

Arms business: Mercedes is converting the G-Class into a drone launch pad

The luxury car manufacturer wants to expand its defense business. The drone defense planned with Tytan should be the beginning. The system can be seen in its entirety for the first time at the Eurosatory in Paris.

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

Only 1 in 4 F-35s is fully mission capable, GAO finds

The F-35’s readiness rates continued to decline through fiscal 2025, with the fleet’s full mission capable rate falling to 25%, according to a GAO report.

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29d06/12

Pentagon may ‘sacrifice’ traditional weapons to buy more drones if reconciliation fails: CTO

“We just make other trade-offs, like against exquisite weapons and systems: How much of those are we willing to sacrifice in place of low-cost autonomous weapons,” Emil Michael said.

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29d06/12

Tiny drones making a buzz at the Berlin Air Show

The Breaking Defense team wraps up the last day of the Berlin Air Show.

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29d06/12

Boeing bows out of Navy’s new trainer jet competition

Boeing said the T-7A Red Hawk training jet they are producing for the Air Force doesn’t fulfill Navy requirements.

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29d06/12

Poland intends to buy two more squads of F-35s, minister says

Two extra squadrons of F-35s would double the existing order, from 32 to 64.

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29d06/12

Lack of sponsorship money: “We are a festival for the people”

Music stabilizes democracy, believes director Ursula Haselböck. She organizes a concert with 600 children on a cruise ship. In order to keep the festival going, she has to find new sponsors - possibly from the military.

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

+++ Iran War +++: Pakistan: Iran and the USA have agreed on a peace agreement

Israeli Defense Minister warns against concessions to Iran +++ US representative: Iran will only receive frozen funds after consideration +++ The news blog.

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29d06/12

Better collaboration needed on SOCOM programs, says government watchdog

“We found that these [civilian] officials can’t effectively carry out the office’s oversight responsibilities as they can’t always get access to relevant program information or meetings,” GAO said while listing three recommendations.

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

US Army commissions second cohort of tech executives into innovation unit

This week, the Army added three more technology executives to Detachment 201, a unit intended to bridge the gap between the commercial sector and military.

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

Ukraine’s defense AI chief predicts ‘new paradigm’ of warfare

“The system that possesses more data and better understands that data, proposes solutions — that system will gain the advantage over the other."

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

Head of Focused Energy: “The nuclear phase-out was a stroke of luck for nuclear fusion”

Focused Energy from Darmstadt is the most valuable merger company in Europe. In an interview, managing director Thomas Forner explains how former power plant sites should become an opportunity for a nuclear restart.

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29d06/12

Israeli startup unveils laser system it says can kill drones in seconds

“It’s a game changer. It’s smaller, uses only 4kWh, can be connected to a vehicle, and is three to four times less expensive than current laser or microwave systems,” Erex Riahi, the CEO of Esh-Tech, said.

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29d06/12

Armament: Air traffic control plans drone defense with Telekom and Hensoldt

The airspace up to a height of 300 meters is a blind spot: it is difficult to understand what drones fly there. A new platform aims to defuse drone threats.

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 3/5

PLA scientists propose a plan to destroy US carrier groups from 3,000km away

As the United States quietly pulls its most precious military assets away from the coasts of Asia, they are falling back to places like Guam in Micronesia, a US island territory far beyond the reach of most conventional missiles. It sounds like a retreat but for the Chinese military it is actually a much trickier problem. In modern warfare, distance can become a shield and dispersion a weapon. This is the puzzle a team of Chinese defence scientists has been solving. Their answer, published...

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29d06/12⚠ war-conflict · 2/5

The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence

[Excerpt from essay by Rose Gottemoeller, William J. Perry Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2016 to 2019, she served as Deputy Secretary-General of NATO. She is the author of Security Through Cooperation: Space, Nuclear Weapons, and U.S.-Russia Relations After the Cold War.] In June 2025, Ukraine’s security services staged an audacious strike inside Russia. They infiltrated the country a

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