🇺🇦🇱🇹 The Ukrainian company "The Fourth Law" and the Lithuanian RSI Europe have signed an agreement for the joint production of unmanned systems in Lithuania. https://militarnyi.com/uk/news/fourth-law-ta-rsi-spilne-vyrobnytstvo-dron/
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🇺🇦🇳🇱 According to the Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, this latest package from the Netherlands will include 700 Ruta-family cruise missiles from the Dutch-based company Destinus. https://militarnyi.com/uk/news/vyrobnytstvo-700-raket-ruta-dlya-ukrayiny-profinansuyut-niderlandy/
🇩🇪 Politico reports that Germany is now looking towards Israeli and Ukrainian missile manufacturers to find an alternative to the American Tomahawk land attack missile.
🇺🇦🇪🇸 The National Association of the Defence Industry of Ukraine and the Spanish Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E) signed an agreement at Eurosatory 2026 for the joint development and production of high-precision weapons.
Separate logistics battalions in the Ukrainian Armed Forces had a bakery company with three field bakeries in this 2018 document.
The Roshel Admiral MRAP. Based on the KF411 from the South African Panyer Vehicle Solutions. Comes with NATO STANAG 4569 lv3 ballistic and level 4 blast protection and has room for nine dismounts.
Military aid to Ukraine updated with: Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List: - 🇩🇪 182,76 million € (Total contribution: 784,76 million €) The full list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZR4cV8_TbpGMHH6FELPNF3UQPqhn-8D2YEtSLf_n8l0/edit?usp=sharing
Military aid to Ukraine updated with: Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List: - 🇳🇱 250 million € (Total contribution: 1 billion €) - 🇸🇪 94,20 million € (Total contribution: 494.2 million €) - 🇦🇺 63,41 million € (Total contribution: 91,7 million €) The full list:
🇺🇦🇩🇪 Germany is allocating an additional 400 million USD to the procurement of air defence missiles for Ukraine. Half of these funds will be used for the PURL programme, while the other half will be used for the Jumpstart programme.
🇺🇦🇳🇱 The Netherlands has allocated an additional 500 million € in aid to Ukraine. Half of these funds will be used to procure equipment from Dutch manufacturers, while the other half will be allocated to the PURL programme.
🇺🇦 Ukraine and NATO have launched a competition to find ways to persistently block the use of military airfields by the Russian Federation. Participants must submit proposals for ways in which the use of aviation infrastructure can be denied for extended periods of time.
🇩🇪 Diehl Defence has signed an agreement with the US-based General Atomics for the acquisition of EST Energetics in Rothenburg, Germany, which specialises in the safe disposal and recycling of lithium metal batteries, airbags and munitions.
🇩🇪 General Dynamics European Land Systems announced that it has reached an agreement with the Forvia Group for the purchase of its site in Augsburg, Germany. The company plans to transform the site into a manufacturing hub and competence centre for its Eagle light tactical vehicle.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The European missile manufacturer MBDA and the Ukrainian Luch Design Bureau have signed an agreement on the joint development of an updated version of the Neptune cruise missile dubbed Neptune 2. https://www.hartpunkt.de/mbda-und-luch-wollen-marschflugkoerper-neptune2-entwickeln/
🇩🇪🇺🇦 The German sensor manufacturer Hensoldt and the Ukrainian Fire Point have signed an agreement for the integration of the TRML-4D Air Surveillance Radar into the Freya Anti-Ballistic Missile system. https://www.hartpunkt.de/hensoldt-und-fire-point-gehen-strategische-partnerschaft-ein/
🇩🇪 Germany has opened up a tender for the procurement of up to 900 flatbed railcars to transport heavy military equipment through the European procurement platform TED. https://ted.europa.eu/de/notice/-/detail/383148-2026
🇩🇪🇺🇦 Quantum Tencore Industries (QTI) has been awarded a contract by the German government for the supply of 2.000 TerMIT unmanned ground vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces over the next 12 months. https://quantum-systems.com/news/quantum-systems-tencore-termit-ugvs-germany/
🇫🇷 France has selected the Thundart system from MBDA and Safran as the winner of its M270 LRU replacement programme. https://www.hartpunkt.de/raketenartillerie-frankreich-waehlt-das-system-thundart-von-mbda-und-safran/
🇩🇪🇰🇷🇵🇱 The German Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft (FFG) and the South Korean Hyundai Rotem have signed an agreement for the joint development and production of an armoured recovery vehicle based on the K2 Main Battle Tank.
As I leave Eurosatory 2026, I would like to express my gratitude to this pit for providing us with a shaded space to rest up and eat lunch.
Last day at Eurosatory. Hope I can find a few more interesting things.
🇺🇦 Spoke with a representative of the Spanish EM&E today, and they told me that the company has provided over 10.000 GNSS/INS guidance kits for 122mm Grad rockets to Ukraine since 2023, which allows for a CEP of 15m.
🇺🇦 Spoke with a representative of DG Industries today who confirmed to me that serial production of the Equelizer glide bomb is underway and that the first units have already been used in combat by the Ukrainian Air Force.
🇺🇦 When asked, a representative from Roshel confirmed to me that the company has localised assembly of the Senator MRAP in Ukraine and is working continuously to localise the manufacturing of components.
🇺🇦 When asked, a representative from Ukrainian Armoured Vehicles, which produces 155mm artillery shells in Ukraine under licence from CSG, stated that Ukraine is no longer procuring M107-type shells and has skipped contracting the L15 by moving directly to ordering ERFB shells.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 When asked, a representative from Ukrainian Armoured Vehicles confirmed to me that the 200 Zetros-based 2S22 Bohdana that Germany pledged to Ukraine will be armed with an L39-length barrel and receive the name "Marta".
Spoke with a SAAB representative for the GL-SDB project which told me that all contracted missiles have been delivered to Ukraine and that no new other has been placed so far.
🇺🇦 The Vyrivniuvach Glide Bomb from the Ukrainian company DG Industry as presented at Eurosatory.