Canadian defense technology company SPARC AI has launched Overwatch Patrol, a positioning system designed to let soldiers track themselves and...

Two weeks after losing its defence minister amid a botched Ukraine procurement deal, Estonia has named a new person from...

When the MITS Lightning Fund closed its first venture fund in May, its partners had raised slightly more than $20...

AI is powering an increasing array of hardware today, from robots and autonomous vehicles to drones and your phone. That...

Open Cosmos, a UK startup founded by three engineers from Spain, made a name for itself in 2015 when it...

British manufacturing startup Isembard has opened a 160,000 square-feet factory in central London that will produce components for defence, aerospace...

Finland's Creoir, a developer of voice interface technology, has raised investment from Swedish VC Gungnir Capital. The funding is part...

The UK satellite manufacturer NewOrbit has secured a Q3 2028 launch slot for NEO-1, a commercial rideshare satellite designed to...

Amsterdam-based Fortaegis Technologies has raised $50 million to take its silicon-rooted security technology into mass production, as the company eyes...

U.S.-based defense startup Mach Industries has raised another $600 million as it begins to build its autonomous weapons at scale....

A Russia-based threat actor used Anthropic’s Claude AI to help build an autonomous swarm of kamikaze drones capable of selecting...

This year, more than 100 companies applied to take part in LAUNCH@RC, our showcase for early-stage companies building across defence...

A new partnership between two startups in Germany and the US hopes to bring the moonshot concept of space data...

Ukrainian-founded drone autonomy company Swarmer has agreed to acquire Ratel Robotics, one of Ukraine’s leading manufacturers of unmanned ground vehicles,...

The Exploration Company (TEC), a five-year-old aerospace firm headquartered in Germany, has raised $450 million in a Series C round...

Mistral, the French artificial intelligence startup, aims to carve out a position for itself as the “sovereign” solution for organisations...

German launch company Isar Aerospace has reached orbit with its Spectrum rocket, giving Europe a new homegrown option for launching...

Berlin has launched an emergency review of data stolen from its administration after ransomware gang Rhysida published what it claims...

German police are investigating an apparent arson attempt outside a building used by defense companies in Munich. The incident happened...

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