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Military technology

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    UK defence
    UK’s high-tech warfare operations to be unified in defence shake-up

    Reorganisation of cyber and electronic military units will be crucial part of government’s strategic review

    UK soldiers deployed on Exercise Army Cyber Spartan
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    News in-depthChinese military
    China improves ability to launch sudden attack on Taiwan, officials say

    Military build-up enables Beijing to switch from peacetime to war operations quickly

    China’s 1st Type 075 amphibious assault ship
  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Rana Foroohar
    Defence spending is up — but on all the wrong things

    The changing nature of military operations will affect both markets and politics

  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump says $175bn ‘Golden Dome’ will be completed during his term

    Tax and budget bill being debated in Congress includes $25bn for the project

    President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    News in-depthSudan
    Military briefing: the foreign drones that turned Sudan’s civil war

    Influx of weapons believed to have come from China, Turkey and the UAE has escalated the ruinous conflict

    General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, a Serbian Chinese made CH-95 drone; satellite image shows smoke rising from burning oil tanks in Port Sudan, Sudan May 6, 2025
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Europe needs smart rearmament

    Nato must develop a nimbler technological edge than during the cold war

    Ukrainian Army carry a Vampire hexacopter drone
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Helsing
    German defence start-up plans underwater drones for naval surveillance

    European group aims to capitalise on western countries’ interest in reconnaissance capabilities

    Lura Helsing underwater unmanned submarine drone
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    The Ukrainian drone pioneer racing Russia’s military machine

    Oleksandr Yakovenko, one of Ukraine’s top drone manufacturers, on the challenges of the high-tech war and of keeping one step ahead of the Russians

    A Ukrainian serviceman operates a reconnaissance drone
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    News in-depthIndia-Pakistan tensions
    China’s J-10 ‘Dragon’ shows teeth in India-Pakistan combat debut

    Skirmish is first test of Beijing’s military hardware against advanced western technology

  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    UK military prevented from flying drones over soldiers’ heads

    Overly cautious regulations and data protection guidelines are curtailing exercises, MPs warn

    A Welsh soldier at a training camp in Germany
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    UK tests microwave weapon to disable drone swarms

    ‘RapidDestroyer’ uses a high-power radio frequency to fry systems at a distance

    RFDEW Image of the Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    John Thornhill
    Ukraine is winning the drone start-up war

    Experimentation on the battlefield and fast development of cheap, smart solutions help the country resist Russia

    Ukrainian servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade attach small air bombs to a Vampire drone
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    News in-depthEU defence
    Can Europe’s defence groups step up if Trump pulls back?

    Region’s arms companies have been soaring but the US president’s approach could turbocharge their ascent

    People watch a CV90 combat vehicle during the Aurora 23 military exercise at the Rinkaby firing range outside Kristianstad, Sweden
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    News in-depthUkraine military briefing
    Ukraine to run out of US weapons by summer

    White House decision to halt military aid means Kyiv’s armoury will be depleted in ‘two to three months’

    A Himars rocket is launched from Ukraine in December 2023
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    UK defence
    Starmer urged to use defence spending boost to revive UK manufacturing

    Make UK chief calls for support for small businesses as Europe faces pressure from US to shoulder security cost

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (far right) and John Healey, now defence secretary, at the Tapa Nato forward operating base in Estonia
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    US group lobbies Doge to cut military spending by using refurbished parts

    Aircraft servicer AAR is seeking to convince Washington that utilising used parts could save money

    A US Navy P-8 Pegasus
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Ukrainians rigged Russian drone pilot goggles with explosives, officials say

    Mossad pager attacks inspired sabotage by Kyiv’s defence intelligence unit

    Boxes of Skyzone Cobra goggles are displayed, with one pair of black goggles placed in front of the boxes.
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Taiwan
    China military exercises near Taiwan could be used to conceal attack, US says

    Pentagon’s Indo-Pacific chief says American military must step up preparations for conflict in region

    US Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Tech start-ups
    VC funding in European defence and security tech surges to record $5.2bn

    Big funding rounds for software developer Helsing and drone maker Tekever defy broader downturn in venture investing

    A Helsing drone
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Chinese military
    China builds huge wartime military command centre in Beijing

    Complex will be bigger than Pentagon and include bombproof bunkers for leaders, say US officials

    A montage of Chinese army personnel with the stars of the Chinese flag in the background
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    ExplainerUS foreign policy
    Trump’s plan for space lasers to destroy nuclear weapons

    US president orders work on defence shield going beyond Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ programme

    An illustration of a satellite and rockets in space
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    Indian investors rush into highly valued defence stocks

    Asset managers have launched specialist funds as push for domestic armaments sends share prices soaring

    An Indian-made Tejas fighter jet leaves contrails as it flies through a clear sky
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russian producers of Oreshnik supermissile used western tools

    Weapons engineering groups advertised for workers familiar with German and Japanese metalworking systems

    Aftermath of bombing in Dnipro, illustration of the Oreshnik missile and German and Japanese flags
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Rheinmetall joins forces with US software specialist on drone development

    German defence group plans to integrate its unmanned aerial vehicles with operating system developed by Auterion

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks at a Rheinmetall drone at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show on June 5 2024 in Schönefeld, Germany
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Visual investigation
    Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones

    Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

    A collage of photos showing Russian drone targets and a man in a hospital bed who has lost part of his leg
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