Editor's letter

Welcome to the 152nd issue of Global Defence Technology magazine. 

The waters around Europe are returning to contested domain status as Russia seeks to utilise grey-zone tactics and capabilities to threaten key sites of subsurface critical national infrastructure. European navies have embarked on submarine modernisation programmes, but the expected delivery schedule leaves a multi-year gap.  

Elsewhere, supply chain issues and geopolitical uncertainty is reshaping how countries go about procuring weapon systems and potentially diversifying from where capabilities are sourced. As the world’s largest arms exporter, the US could be set to lose out.

In addition, don’t miss out on the latest insight into the global self-propelled artillery market, tactical battlefield communications evolutions, complications in space domain awareness, and much more.

All this and the latest defence industry news, comment, and analysis from the Global Defence Technology team.

Richard Thomas, editor-in-chief