Security

Germany buys Rheinmetall’s Skyranger to reinstate mobile air defenses

BERLIN — Germany will purchase up to 49 Skyranger 30 air defense systems from Rheinmetall for a total of almost €600 billion, or $650 billion, the company announced in a press release this week. The Skyranger 30 weapons stations will be mounted onto the Bundeswehr’s...

France orders 3,000 camouflage nets for cloaking foxhole radio signals

MILAN — The French government’s military-procurement agency has placed an order for thousands of Saab multispectral camouflage nets designed to conceal troops formations’ electromagnetic signature on the battlefield. The Direction Générale de l’Armement announced in a...

UK opens bidding for new helicopter, to award contract in 2025

Britain has opened up bids for its New Medium Helicopter program as the nation’s modernization program moves into a major new phase, the Defence Ministry announced Tuesday. The U.K. expects to award a contract in 2025 to build the new helicopters, the ministry said....

French AI firm to process drone footage for automatic threat detection

SINGAPORE — A French firm that deploys artificial intelligence to observe Chinese and Russian military activity says it is integrating video footage gathered by drones into its algorithms for detecting adversaries’ military movements. Paris-based Preligens, founded in...