Author: Michael

The Army is looking to buy drones “Amazon-style” and juice its organic industrial base to meet leadership directives for growing the U.S. military’s unmanned aerial systems arsenal, the service’s acquisition chief told DefenseScoop.
In July, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo on “Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance,” which called for approving “hundreds” of American products for purchase by the DOD and arming combat units with a variety of “low-cost drones made by America’s world-leading engineers and AI experts,” among other steps.

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The German Defence Ministry has signed a contract to procure 20 new Eurofighter combat aircraft, with the agreement concluded at Airbus’s final assembly site in Manching, southern Germany. The aircraft are intended to be delivered between 2031 and 2034 to replace a portion of the Air Force’s Cold War era Tornado attack jets. This increases the number of Eurofighers on orders by the country to 58, at a time when Germany is fast emerging as the greatest defence spender on the continent.

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