This week: Romania scrambles F-16s over a drone alert, Poland signs a $2.2B Piorun deal and receives its first new K2 tanks, Ukraine opens wartime arms exports, and Bulgaria triples its minehunter fleet. Plus three deep-dive analyses.
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Austria plans a €2.5 billion medium-range air defense purchase. IRIS-T has an early advantage, but at least six suppliers may fit the requirement.
Lithuania’s Giraitė Armament Plant is investing €33.6 million in a second small-caliber ammunition line, with production planned for Q3 2027.
Polish defense technology company Defence.Hub completed a PLN 8.01 million share issue to accelerate development of its MACS counter-drone system.
Bulgaria ratified agreements to acquire seven minehunters from Belgium and the Netherlands, expanding its Black Sea mine warfare fleet from three to ten ships.