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The UK plans to build 12 new attack submarines as part of sweeping plans to boost the country's military. The Ministry of Defence said Sunday that the SSN-AUKUS vessels would be built as part of the UK's Strategic Review to enhance its military strength amid rising global threats. They'll be deployed as part of the AUKUS alliance between the UK, Australia, and the US, with the submarines having been developed alongside the Australian navy.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Kit Gillet |Tom Porter |Sinéad Baker |Henry Blodget

Belgium's defense minister compared the revolutionary impact of drone warfare to that of gunpowder as European officials pledged to boost drone production for Ukraine. "I really believe that this is the future of warfare, like gunpowder was in the Hundred Years War, like an industrial revolution was in the First World War, and like nuclear capacity was in the Second World War," Theo Francken said, speaking at the Drone Summit 2025 in Riga, Latvia.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Tom Porter

Belgium's defense minister said drones are "the future of warfare."Theo Francken, speaking at a drone summit in Latvia, compared drones to gunpowder in the 1300s. Belgium, alongside Turkey, plans to join a group of countries boosting drone production for Ukraine. Belgium's defense minister compared the revolutionary impact of drone warfare to that of gunpowder as European officials pledged to boost drone production for Ukraine.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Kit Gillet |Tom Porter |Henry Blodget

A Ukrainian intelligence official has accused China of supplying resources to Russian military production facilities. Speaking to Ukrinform state news agency, military intelligence chief Oleh Ivashchenko said Ukraine had "confirmed data" that China was supplying 20 Russian factories. "There is information that China supplies tooling machines, special chemical products, gunpowder, and components specifically to defense manufacturing industries," he said.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Kit Gillet |Tom Porter |Henry Blodget

The CEO of Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri said Europe needs to boost its subsea defenses amid intensifying threats and weakening US security guarantees. "The Mediterranean has always been populated by Russian and US submarines, it's up to us Europeans now to take responsibility for our underwater defence," Folgiero told the Financial Times in an interview published Tuesday. "If European countries are going to spend more on defence, we should spend better," he added.