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On 14 and 15 May, SEDE will hold its next meeting. SEDE Members will notably discuss with the EEAS and Commission representatives, the implementation of the EU Action Plan on cable security and actions taken to increase EU security and resilience against threats posed to the Union's critical infrastructure. There will also be an item on the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy and on how the latest developments -
like the White Paper on Strengthening European Defence, the ReArm Europe plan/Readiness 2030 and the forthcoming "Defence Simplification Omnibus" - relate to the benchmarks as set out in the Strategy. On 14 May, a joint hearing of the SEDE and TRAN Committees is also organised on 'Military mobility' to discuss with experts the state of play and future prospects of military mobility in the EU in view of the upcoming joint non-legislative report.

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The Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) organises a joint public hearing on 'Military Mobility' on Wednesday, 14 May 2025 from 14.30 to 17.00hrs in Brussels (room ANTALL 4Q2), with external experts.
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Americas Northrop Grumman  won a $60.2 million modification, which is to procure the non-recurring engineering, material, tooling, and labor required to complete the Integrated Functional Capability 4 change requests and engineering change proposals in support of the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System air vehicle B11 for the Navy. Work is expected to be completed February 2029. Fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $60,249,668 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. The US Army is rethinking how it uses tanks on the battlefield, adapting to the growing threat posed by loitering munitions and low-cost drones in modern warfare. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, speaking on the War on the Rocks podcast, said the surge of inexpensive drones capable of striking tanks’ most vulnerable points demands a major change in how armored units are deployed. Pointing to the M1 Abrams as an example, Driscoll explained that tanks can no longer rely on traditional frontal assault tactics and must instead operate from more protected, defended positions. Middle East & Africa Saudi Arabia has produced the first locally made parts […]

President Trump described the F-55 as a substantial upgrade over the F-35, together with the ongoing upgrades to F-35 and F-22. U.S. President Donald Trump is currently on a tour in the Middle East, and on May. 15, 2025, made the second stop of the tour in Qatar. Trump began the day at a breakfast […]

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Americas Airbus and Shield AI have signed an agreement to integrate autonomous pilot technology into the MQ-72C Logistics Connector unmanned aerial system. The teaming includes compatibility trials of Shield AI’s flagship artificial intelligence software “Hivemind” with Airbus’ Helionix advanced avionics suite to operate the MQ-72C. The evaluation will focus on levels of autonomy to deploy the aircraft with minimal human intervention, with the tests to include complex unmanned operations in contested logistics settings. The Golden Dome missile-defense vision is turning up the heat on a long-running fight between the Pentagon and the telecommunications industry for control of certain radio frequencies. “That area of the spectrum is golden, and we need to protect it to maintain national security. And I use the word golden specifically, because the only way we can achieve Golden Dome” is by using frequencies around 3 gigahertz, Katie Arrington, who is performing the duties of the Pentagon chief information officer, told lawmakers Thursday at a hearing of the House Armed Services’ panel on cyber, information technologies, and innovation. “It is critical for national security.” Europe The UK Ministry of Defense has revealed it will send five additional Raven air defense systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The project, which will […]

The consequences of the gradual dismantling of US soft power capabilities are causing growing concern in Washington D.C., including beyond the Democratic opposition. Rick Crawford, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, recently voiced alarm at the escalation of [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron and the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov met for dinner at the Elysée Palace on 5 May [...]

Presented as a major technological breakthrough by Ukraine's defence ministry, the Palianytsia long-range strike drone is allegedly closely based on [...]

They have all been invited to address students in a lecture hall at the Sorbonne in Paris or France's elite [...]

The AIM-174B, also known as the Standard Missile 6 Air Launched Configuration, received the new nickname in the recent Naval Aviation Playbook 2025. Almost a year after it was introduced in service, the AIM-174B long-range missile has now been officially nicknamed “Gunslinger.” The name was included among the new capabilities listed for the F/A-18 Super […]

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The office of the Dubai Public Prosecutor has confirmed to Intelligence Online that Litigation Capital Management, the Australian investment group specialising [...]

Pierre-Henri Chuet, a former French naval fighter pilot and host of a YouTube channel with 500,000 subscribers called after his nickname, "Até [...]

Internal disagreements at the Pentagon over future direction of the AEW role could lead to the E-7 Wedgetail becoming a victim of the 2026 budget, sources tell Aviation Week. Elements inside the U.S. Department of Defense, as reported by Aviation Week, favor a dramatic shift in focus from aircraft to satellites for the U.S. military’s […]

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Americas AeroVironment has introduced “Titan 4,” a new version of its counter-drone system designed to use radio frequencies (RF) to monitor and disrupt hostile drone activity. The system is 17 percent lighter and 73 percent smaller than its previous dual-chassis version, now built into a single portable unit. Titan 4 can be set up in less than five minutes and is adaptable for mobile operations, establishing a protective dome around personnel and key infrastructure. The US Navy has announced the renovation of a noise-suppressed aircraft cell engine testing facility in Patuxent River, Maryland. The center, which had been closed for more than a decade, houses the Naval Air Systems Command’s Engine Test Instrumentation Replacement System (ETIRS), which is used to optimize propulsion validations for military planes. Middle East & Africa The United States has greenlit a significant arms sale to the United Arab Emirates, approving the delivery of six advanced CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters and sustainment components for the UAE’s fleet of F-16 fighter jets, according to a statement from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency released on Monday. Valued at a combined $1.4 billion, the deal underscores the UAE’s ongoing efforts to enhance its military capabilities amid a complex security […]

During a daring raid behind enemy lines, a commando from Unit 2245, a clandestine structure attached to Ukraine's GUR military intelligence, captured a next-generation Russian electronic warfare system that had just been deployed by Moscow. The device is named CRAB, [...]