Current Events in Europe

MdCN completes first firing from FREMM (Jane's)

From Ares [excerpt]

Russian Navy Gets New Carrier-Based Fighters (RIA Novosti)

CNO Greenert: Russian Navy Very Busy in the Undersea Domain (USNI News)

DGA Receives the First Retrofitted Navy Rafale (Defense Aerospace)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-03/uk-unveils-radical-defence-overhaul-to-meet-new-global-threats/105368708?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

From RIA Novosti [excerpt]

If Scotland Votes for Independence, Its Going to Need an Army (War is Boring blog)

Russian destroyer design revealed (Jane's)

From The Guardian [excerpt]

Italy retires last Atlantique (DefenseNews)

Presented at Le Bourget, at this time only in development: newsmbda-introduces-cvs302-hoplite-indirect-precision-attack-missile

Russia lays keels for three nuclear subs (Jane's)

Russian Navy Unveils New Class of Submarines (RIA Novosti)

Something to keep your eye on over the next year or three. The Scottish National Party, which won a majority in the devolved government of Scotland last year is starting to move towards a referendum on the country becoming independent. The issues with Westminster agreeing to let them do this legally are on firstly timing (Holyrood wants it in 2014, Westminster sooner) and over a second question allowing for a "devolution-max" (essentially having everything bar defence and foreign affairs). A full guide on the issue can be found here here. It's by no means a certainty that there would be a yes vote - but if Scotland were to break away, the defence ramifications wo…

Testing a new variant of Il-76 for Special Forces over Black Sea: https://theaviationist.com/2017/10/03/russian-il-76-candid-modified-to-support-special-operations-conducts-flight-test-over-the-black-sea/

Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's War in Ukraine and Boris Nemtsov's Putin. War. (Atlantic Council)

Russia flies first radar- and avionics-upgraded Tu-160 bomber (Jane's)

Russian Tu-22 bomber scares NATO air defenses flying at supersonic speed over the Baltic Sea for the first time (The Aviationist blog)

Kingdom of Denmark Strategy for the Arctic 2011 2020 (pdf)