EUR: How Europe’s responding to Russian drone threats
Europe has been slow to adapt to the Russian drone threat, but is starting to test technologies used in Ukraine — and building drone-detection infrastructure.
UKR: Ukraine miltech components: detaching from China
Ukraine is building a competitive components market to support its growing defense industry. But financing gaps, limited production capacity, and reliance on China for key parts still pose major hurdles.
Neodymium magnets for drone motors, germanium for night vision and gallium for GPU chips are vital for the military technologies Europe needs—and China controls them.
Tanks have proven vulnerable to drones on the Ukrainian battlefield, but the EU is still confident in their need for one. Here’s how the bloc is pressing ahead with its ambitions to design a next-generation battle tank.
Defense tech startups in the EU and Ukraine will be able to get equity investments of up to €30 million each, with larger firms invited to co-invest, under plans to be spelled out on Wednesday.
How Ukraine miltech exports will spur post-war reconstruction
How will loosening export controls put Ukraine on a growth trajectory post-war? And looking ahead to how deftech can become a key source of revenue, drawing on its technological innovation on the battlefield.