Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier has been proposing the creation of a French space plane in recent years, and recently the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecorneuil, said that the "space issue" is of the greatest concern to him.
Switzerland plans to purchase four or five IRIS-T SLM medium-range air defence systems from Germany's Diehl Defence.
The Netherlands has ordered 46 of the latest Leopard 2A8 tanks from Germany for €2.5 billion after a break of almost 16 years, but there have been problems with the location of the equipment.
The Minister of Defence of Ukraine Rustem Umerov said that the Lithuanian government has allocated EUR 10 million for the purchase of modern Ukrainian long-range weapons for the needs of the Ukrainian Defence Forces.
Eric Trappier, CEO of the French company Dassault Aviation, expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the progress of cooperation with Airbus under the FCAS (Future Combat Air System) programme, which involves the development of a new sixth-generation fighter aircraft, the NGF.
Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU party and a likely future German chancellor, confirmed that he would like to give Ukraine Taurus cruise missiles.
The Spanish company Tecnove has announced the start of licensed production of Ukrainian armoured vehicles Dzhura and Kozak at its facilities in Erencia, La Mancha.
In Samsung smartphones running One UI 7, a serious security issue has been discovered by our colleagues at Sammobile that affects the Protected Folder feature. The vulnerability allows Gallery content residing in the Protected Folder to become accessible outside of it via automatically generated stories. Users of the Galaxy S24, Galaxy Flip 6 and Galaxy Fold 6 devices, and possibly the Galaxy S25, may experience this issue.
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are undergoing training under the BZVP (unit platoon combat coordination) programme at the 242nd Unit Training Centre. And it begins not with marching and trenches, but with VR simulators. First, mobilised citizens learn the technique of firing large-calibre weapons virtually, and only then practice it in the field.
Mercedes-Benz has informed its dealers that it is ceasing production of small commercial vehicles and withdrawing the electric EQT and eCitan models from the market.
A detailed support plan for the game has been published
OnePlus is gearing up to launch a new OnePlus 13T flagship smartphone, which has been spotted in the Geekbench database.
The Roewe D6 electric sedan from China's SAIC has set a Guinness World Record for "lowest energy consumption among production electric vehicles on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway" at 9.125 kWh per 100 kilometres.
There are only two people working on the game
Samsung has temporarily halted the global rollout of the One UI 7 update based on Android 15 for the Galaxy S24, Galaxy Fold 6 and Galaxy Flip 6 devices. This was reported by a well-known insider @UniverseIce. He also added that the reason for this was due to a bug that was discovered, which is reportedly related to unlocking the devices.
