Germany

The Hybrid Space/Submarine Architecture Ensuring Infosec of Telecommunications (HEIST) initiative was launched July 31.

Germany acquired the IRIS-T SLM last year as part of a wider push to bolster its air and missile defenses in response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The Philippines is looking to add Germany to its growing list of arms suppliers through a joint defense pact.

The new CEO of German defense electronics provider Hensoldt is trying to wean the company from its heavy reliance on domestic sales.

Germany says it now expects its umbrella contract for Boeing CH-47F Chinooks to be signed several months later than planned.

More than half of the alliance’s member nations rallied at the annual summit to commit to harnessing satellite-derived data collection over the next five years.

Lilium has pushed back the planned start of manned flight tests with its full-scale electric Lilium Jet to early 2025.

Both the U.S. and European members used the alliance’s latest summit to push new missile initiatives.

German defense startup Donaustahl says it will supply Ukraine with an unspecified number of Maus loitering munitions.

Defense tech startups raised $9.1 billion in the first half of 2024 compared to $34.9 billion for all of 2023 and $35.8 billion in 2022, a new report says.

Tehran’s proxies from the north and south launched 200 or so projectiles.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Ottobrun near Munich, ERC Systems is seeking to launch services later this decade.

The MOU, signed July 9, is a new milestone for the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space initiative.

Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are buying 940 Stinger Block 1 missiles from Raytheon.

The deployments will include “developmental hypersonic weapons.”

Allies of NATO will sign a new defense industrial pledge during its annual summit this week in Washington.

Oslo has plentiful spares available to support the Ukrainian aircraft.

The German government says it will meet the NATO target of spending at least 2% on defense in its 2025 budget and following years.

New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed new defense and transport ministers after sweeping aside the Conservative Party in a July 4 general election.

Germany has awarded Airbus a €2.1 billion ($2.3 billion) contract to build the new SatcomBW 3 constellation due to be deployed before the end of the decade.

Germany’s Tesat-Spacecom said it has secured a European Space Agency (ESA) project to deliver a cubesat to test 6G telecommunications technology.

Germany’s push to bolster air and missile defense capacity is continuing, as the Bundestag’s budget committee approved funding for four more Patriot systems.

Several European nations are looking to link arms on the possible development and procurement of long-range, deep-strike weapons.

Forces in Europe are doing more in space, including through an increased focus on situational awareness of the domain to address growing threats.

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