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              Military technology

              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Aerospace & Defence
                Indian investors rush into highly valued defence stocks

                Asset managers have launched specialist funds as push for domestic armaments sends share prices soaring

                An Indian-made Tejas fighter jet leaves contrails as it flies through a clear sky
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Russian producers of Oreshnik supermissile used western tools

                Weapons engineering groups advertised for workers familiar with German and Japanese metalworking systems

                Aftermath of bombing in Dnipro, illustration of the Oreshnik missile and German and Japanese flags
              • Monday, 9 December, 2024
                Aerospace & Defence
                Rheinmetall joins forces with US software specialist on drone development

                German defence group plans to integrate its unmanned aerial vehicles with operating system developed by Auterion

                German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks at a Rheinmetall drone at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show on June 5 2024 in Schönefeld, Germany
              • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
                Visual investigation
                Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones

                Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

                A collage of photos showing Russian drone targets and a man in a hospital bed who has lost part of his leg
              • Monday, 2 December, 2024
                European AI specialist Helsing unveils attack drone

                Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems

                Helsing drones
              • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems

                Ukrainian intelligence says weapons being sent to Russia’s Kursk region to attack Kyiv’s forces

                In this photo taken from a video released by Russian Defense Ministry press service on November 13, the Russian army’s multiple rocket launcher Solntsepyok fires towards Ukrainian positions in the border area of the Kursk region in Russia
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Nato says North Korean troops in Russia threaten European security

                Pyongyang’s involvement marks ‘dangerous expansion’ of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, says Mark Rutte

                Mark Rutte, standing at a podium with the NATO emblem, delivers a statement at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Behind him are multiple national flags including those of NATO member countries.
              • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
                Defence groups bet big on drone-destroying laser weapons

                Leading contractors, including RTX in the US, the UK’s QinetiQ, and Europe’s MBDA, are investing heavily in the technology

                Montage of  military drones and Dragonfire energy weapon
              • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
                Middle East war
                Israel races to supply anti-missile shield

                Intense war demands have left IDF relying on US to fill gaps in air defences

                A soldier stands by a missile launcher
              • Monday, 7 October, 2024
                Venture capital investment
                US funding drives investment for European military tech start-ups

                American venture capital funds have provided lion’s share of investment to nascent sector this year

                Defence tech start-up Helsing
              • Friday, 4 October, 2024
                ExplainerMiddle East war
                Can Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities by itself?

                Without US support, analysts believe the Israeli air force will struggle to mount a successful operation

                A montage showing the Natanz nuclear facility, Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb and B-2 bomber
              • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
                Ben Wallace
                Ben Wallace to join defence-focused investment firm

                Ex-defence secretary becomes latest on long list of former ministers beating a path towards new careers in business

                Ben Wallace
              • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
                News in-depthMiddle East war
                How Israel’s air defences withstood Iran’s barrage

                Tehran claims success but early Israeli assessment suggests attack caused few hits and no casualties

                Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, October 1, 2024
              • Friday, 27 September, 2024
                Chinese military
                China’s most advanced nuclear submarine sank in shipyard, says US

                First vessel of new Zhou class was being prepared for sea trials

              • Friday, 13 September, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Biden indicates shift in Ukraine’s deployment of Storm Shadow missiles

                Washington had feared that using weapons risked escalating conflict with Russia

                Tornado GR4 aircraft carrying two Storm Shadow missiles under the fuselage
              • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
                US foreign policy
                Biden administration split over Ukraine’s use of US weapons inside Russia

                Pentagon and intelligence community caution against deployment of ATACM missiles by Kyiv

                Live misslie testing
              • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
                ExplainerWar in Ukraine
                Why Ukraine’s allies are divided over deep strikes into Russia

                UK has pressed US to back Kyiv’s use of Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory

                FT montage of illustrations showing missiles and drones
              • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
                News in-depthMiddle East war
                How all-out war between Israel and its adversaries might play out

                Military capabilities of the Jewish state have evolved since it last fought Hizbollah but so have those of the Iran-backed ‘axis of resistance’

              • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
                Tech start-ups
                Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

                Investment in maker of ‘low-cost cruise missiles’ a sign of Silicon Valley’s shifting stance towards the arms industry

                The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Pacific
              • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
                Visual story
                Ten days that turned the tables on Russia

                How Ukraine pulled off a spectacular counterpunch against Moscow by invading its invader

              • Friday, 16 August, 2024
                News in-depthSingapore
                Singapore boosts ‘poisonous shrimp’ defence as US-China tensions rise

                Geopolitical risks and emerging cyber threats push city state to rethink traditional security stance

                A Singapore Air Force Chinook helicopter carrying a Singaporean flag is escorted by Apache helicopters during a fly-over to celebrate the country’s 59th National Day in Singapore on August 9 2024
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                News in-depthMiddle East war
                Israel braces for biggest test of air defences from Iran-led attack

                Israeli officials expect huge test for multi-layered array that includes Iron Dome to come in days ahead

              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                Anduril Industries
                US defence tech start-up Anduril raises $1.5bn at $14bn valuation

                The funding, which was co-led by Peter Thiel’s VC firm, will go towards production of autonomous weapons for America and allies

                An Anvil-M drone at Anduril’s headquarters in California
              • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
                Chinese military
                Russia and China fly joint air patrols near US for first time

                Manoeuvre marks further deepening of military co-operation between Moscow and Beijing

                A Tu-95 strategic bomber of the Russian air force is refueled in the air during a join Russia-China air patrol
              • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
                War in Ukraine
                Type of Russian missile that struck Kyiv children’s hospital uses western components

                Kremlin has turned to microprocessors and other technology not intended for military use to skirt sanctions

                A montage of photos of components of the Kh-101 missile and the aftermath of a missile strike
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