[IAMD] Air & Missile Defence

IAMD | Air & Missile Defence on Großwald.org brings together analysis of Europe’s integrated air and missile defence architecture. From short-range SHORAD systems to NATO’s ESSI and Sky Shield initiatives, this section covers modernization programs, multinational procurement, and operational lessons from Ukraine. Track how Germany and its allies are building layered defences against drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic threats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zelenskyy Calls an Anti-Ballistic Coalition Meeting in France Around Freya, Ukraine's Mass-Produced Interceptor post image

Zelenskyy Calls an Anti-Ballistic Coalition Meeting in France Around Freya, Ukraine's Mass-Produced Interceptor

NATO Converts Baltic Air Policing Into an Air Defence Mission — Engagement Authority Moves From Capitals to SACEUR post image

NATO Converts Baltic Air Policing Into an Air Defence Mission — Engagement Authority Moves From Capitals to SACEUR

Trump Tells Zelenskyy Ukraine Will Get a Licence to Build Patriot Interceptors — Before Telling Lockheed Martin or RTX post image

Trump Tells Zelenskyy Ukraine Will Get a Licence to Build Patriot Interceptors — Before Telling Lockheed Martin or RTX

Switzerland Opens Talks With French, Israeli and South Korean Manufacturers for a Second Air-Defence System After Patriot Slips Four to Five Years post image

Switzerland Opens Talks With French, Israeli and South Korean Manufacturers for a Second Air-Defence System After Patriot Slips Four to Five Years

Estonia Receives Its First Diehl IRIS-T SLM Fire Unit at Ämari — the First of Three, and Its First Medium-Range Air Defence post image

Estonia Receives Its First Diehl IRIS-T SLM Fire Unit at Ämari — the First of Three, and Its First Medium-Range Air Defence