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Großwald Signal

Signal No. 126 · France's 449 billion, now law

France's updated military programming law was published on Tuesday — EUR 449.3 billion to 2030, plus authorities to order strategic stockholding and to derogate from procurement rules under a declared security alert — a trajectory, not an appropriation; powers that still need decrees.

NATO Exercises 2027: The Complete Guide to Allied Readiness post image

[INT] NATO & EU [MDF] Doctrine & Force

NATO Exercises 2027: The Complete Guide to Allied Readiness

Austria Breaks Up a Vienna Channel That Sent CNC Machine Tools Into Rostec Missile and Fighter Engine Plants post image

[GRZ] Grey Zone & Hybrid [DIN] Industry [RUC] Russia-Ukraine War

Austria Breaks Up a Vienna Channel That Sent CNC Machine Tools Into Rostec Missile and Fighter Engine Plants

[DIN] Industry [SEA] Sea [ATL] Transatlantic

Germany, Norway and Canada Open the 212CD Planning Phase at Kiel — Contract Still Unsigned

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

Cambridge Aerospace Closes a USD 300 Million Series C at USD 3.4 Billion

Großwald Curated

Großwald Curated No. 49 — By request only

[DIN] Industry [SPC] Space & Overhead ISR [INT] NATO & EU

The Commission Signs the IRIS² Implementation Agreement — 348 Satellites, 66 of Them for Defence and Security

[DIN] Industry

[IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

Cambridge Aerospace Closes a USD 300 Million Series C at USD 3.4 Billion post image

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

Cambridge Aerospace Closes a USD 300 Million Series C at USD 3.4 Billion

Northrop Becomes a Second Source for PAC-3 Rocket Motors — USD 3 Billion Over Seven Years post image

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence [ATL] Transatlantic

Northrop Becomes a Second Source for PAC-3 Rocket Motors — USD 3 Billion Over Seven Years

Großwald Dispatch

[DPL] Policy [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence [ATL] Transatlantic

Washington Has Not Agreed to License Ukrainian Patriot Production — Kyiv Puts the Talks at 12 Months to Five Years

Großwald Dispatch

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence [RUC] Russia-Ukraine War

Kyiv Dates the Freyja Anti-Ballistic Prototype to the First Half of 2027 as the Costing Committee Convenes

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

Greece Approves a EUR 3.5 Billion Israeli Achilles Shield — Rafael and IAI at the Core, Operational in 35 Months

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence [DEZ] German Zeitenwende

Berlin Will Examine Macron's SAMP/T NG Co-Production Offer — the Obstacle: a Second System Beside Patriot

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

Lockheed's PAC-3 ACE and MBDA's Counter Mass Interceptor Launch at Farnborough, Both Promised for 2028

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

The Bliksem EXO Consortium: Thales, Airbus, MBDA, Safran and Destinus Build Europe's First Exo-Atmospheric Interceptor, with Space Kill-Vehicle Test in 2027

[DIP] Diplomacy [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence [RUC] Russia-Ukraine War

Integrated Anti-Ballistic Missile Coalition in Paris: Ukraine a Founding Member and an Interceptor as Its Flagship Project

[DIN] Industry [IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

Britain Places the First LEAP Contracts, GBP 3.16 Million to Three Firms for Low-Cost Drone Interceptors

[MDF] Doctrine & Force

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[INT] NATO & EU [MDF] Doctrine & Force

NATO Exercises 2027: The Complete Guide to Allied Readiness

Every confirmed and projected NATO exercise for 2027, tracked from the first planning conferences — with sources, evidence tiers, and a public change log. Last update: 16 August 2026.

Großwald Dispatch

[MDF] Doctrine & Force [ATL] Transatlantic [INT] NATO & EU

The Pentagon Opens a Six-Month Europe Posture Review Grading Allies on Contributions, Basing and Overflight

Großwald Dispatch

[MDF] Doctrine & Force [DEZ] German Zeitenwende

Germany Will Join a French Nuclear Exercise for the First Time — Two Rafale Land at Nörvenich

[CEE] Central & Eastern Europe

CSG Buys the Gnaschwitz Explosives Site From MAXAM — EUR 100 Million Into Saxon Nitroglycerin post image

[DIN] Industry [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe

CSG Buys the Gnaschwitz Explosives Site From MAXAM — EUR 100 Million Into Saxon Nitroglycerin

Spain's Paznic Detachment Opens eAP-72 in Romania With Seven F-18Ms and Three Counter-Drone NH90s post image

[OPS] Operations [AIR] Air [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe

Spain's Paznic Detachment Opens eAP-72 in Romania With Seven F-18Ms and Three Counter-Drone NH90s

Großwald Dispatch

[DIP] Diplomacy [UXS] Uncrewed & Autonomy [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe

Romania Expels a Russian Diplomat and Recalls Its Ambassador After Four Drone Incursions in Four Days

[DIN] Industry [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe

Poland's Nitro-Chem Signs a BAE Systems Letter of Intent for a 2,000-Tonne TNT Plant in Britain

[DIN] Industry [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe [SEA] Sea

Bulgaria Signs at Ankara for Seven Belgian and Dutch Minehunters, Transferred Free of Charge

[DIN] Industry [PLB] Poland–Lithuania–Belarus [STK] Strike & Long-Range Fires [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe

Poland Breaks Ground on Its First Guided-Rocket Factory for the Homar-K at Gorzów

[MDF] Doctrine & Force [INT] NATO & EU [CEE] Central & Eastern Europe [PLB] Poland–Lithuania–Belarus

1 (German/Netherlands) Corps Assumes NATO Command of Estonia and Latvia at a Valga Ceremony

[STK] Strike & Long-Range Fires

Großwald Dispatch

[DIN] Industry [RUC] Russia-Ukraine War [STK] Strike & Long-Range Fires

France Licenses SCALP, AASM and Aster-30 Production to Ukraine and Confirms Sixteen Rafale for 2028 to 2029 Delivery

Großwald Dispatch

[DIN] Industry [INT] NATO & EU [STK] Strike & Long-Range Fires

Franco-German Institute of Saint-Louis Fires Its Electromagnetic Railgun in Open Field for the First Time