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🇩🇪 Politico reports that Germany is now looking towards Israeli and Ukrainian missile manufacturers to find an alternative to the American Tomahawk land attack missile.

Three companies in particular were mentioned with the Israeli Covenant, the Ukrainian Fire Point and one more, unnamed, Ukrainian company which manufactures the Bars cruise 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.

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 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.

Additionally, at Eurosatory, a representative of FFG told me that a similar agreement with Hanwha Aerospace was being worked on to develop an armoured recovery vehicles based on the K9/10 family of self-propelled howitzers/ammunition supply vehicles.

🇩🇪🇰🇷🇵🇱 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.

🇺🇦 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.

At the request of Ukraine, the company also developed a variant with terminal laser guidance which would allow them to retain a CEP of 3m even in a GNSS-denied environment, which has now entered mass production with at least 1.000 units already delivered to Ukraine since Q1 of 2026.

🇺🇦 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 initial poor performance of the system came both from its extremely short development period and lack of proper training for the end user.