🔷 Saved Rounds 10.14.25

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In that Number

10% annually

European defense companies’ revenues from European customers are forecasted to grow about 10% annually over the next decade as governments ramp up defense spending to meet NATO targets.

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You’ve probably heard of or even participated in wargames focused on a Taiwan invasion. But what about wargaming it from China’s perspective?

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They Said It

“Is there a way to bridge into the T-7 off the bat, and get to those competencies earlier and for everyone? That is really what we’re looking at. … It would greatly simplify the pipeline if we were able to do that.” 

— Brig. Gen. Matthew Leard, on discussions over what the future holds for the T-6 fleet, and potentially scrapping it in favor of sending student pilots directly to the T-7

 ICYMI

Saved Rounds

• Sikorsky unveiled the Nomad family of VTOL drones

• GALT Aerospace won a $145M USMC contract to deliver SkyTower II Pod systems for the MQ-9

• Cubic Defense won an Air Force contract to advance its Halo SATCOM antenna

• Australia received its first AH-64E Apache helicopters

• Peraton won an Air Force contract to develop and prototype cyber infrastructure

• The Navy is looking for AI to track drones from helicopters

• SAIC announced its plans to acquire SilverEdge in a $205M cash deal

• Dassault Aviation sold 5 Falcon 2000 bizjets to the French military

• IBM won a $430M contract to overhaul the UK’s military logistics system

• The Army completed PrSM flight tests launched from the HIMARS and MLRS launchers

• DroneShield announced a $13M investment to build an R&D facility in Australia

• Xcelerate acquired clearAvenue to expand its portfolio of software capabilities

• Muon Space won a $44.6M Space Force contract for 3 prototype multispectral weather satellite payloads

• Bangladesh announced approval for the purchase of multirole fighters (likely Chinese J-10CE)

• Italy is preparing an accounting trick to free up $12.7B in defense spending

• Thales 70mm anti-drone rockets are now being used in Ukraine

• Aventra emerged from stealth with a $3M in seed funding to develop balloon-based long-range precision weapons

• The Royal Navy’s Sea Venom anti-ship missile is operational

• India & Brazil are negotiating a deal to swap aircraft (likely C-390 airlifters for Tejas fighters)

• The Air Force made its first purchase of the PDW C100 heavy quadcopter drone that the Army uses

• Germany selected Raytheon’s SPY-6(V)1 radar for its F127 frigates

• The Air Force curtailed its C-130H propeller upgrade plans in favor of new C-130Js

• Germany approved a $4.3B contract to buy 20 more Eurofighters (delivery in 2031)

• Stoke Space raised a $510M Series D funding round to further develop its reusable medium lift launch vehicle

• Red Cat unveiled FANG, an NDAA-compliant line of FPV defense drones

• Japan commissioned a new long-range cruise missile for its submarine fleet

• Forterra acquired goTenna to advance its autonomous systems with edge communications

• HII completed the first submarine torpedo tube launch and recovery of the REMUS 620 UUV

• Anduril & Overland AI conducted a joint field demo using their autonomous ground and air systems

• Boeing won a $173M Air Force contract for 8 MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters

• Northrop Grumman revealed its working to integrate its Lumberjack modular missile on the XQ-58 Valkyrie drone

• Teledyne Marine is trying to complete the world’s first global circumnavigation with an autonomous submarine

• SNPC is putting its microreactor on Space Ocean Corporation satellites

• Leonardo DRS Ring C-UxS won a Pentagon counter-drone competition

• Neros opened an office in Kyiv to support its 6,000 FPV drone order

• Ukroboronprom & LeVanta (UKR and US) are partnering to develop a ‘float and fly’ drone for the Black Sea

• Govini, a defense tech software startup, has surpassed $100M in ARR

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