Inside the Swedish factory helping to re-arm Europe.
BAE’s Hägglunds is increasing capacity as it gears up for a huge joint order from several of the region’s armies.
SIPRI: Record arms spending, again.
Global military spending hit a record high in 2025. Governments spent a total of €2.47 trillion on ships, aircraft, missiles and other weapons,
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) warns the trend is likely to continue — and carries additional risks.
SIPRI is an independent international institute that researches conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.
This backgrounder from SIPRI aims to provides an overview of the military AI industry to help policymakers and civil society, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved: https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2026/mapping-military-ai-industry
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Big update for Hearts of Iron 4: armies, arms trade and pre-war events get a serious overhaul, from factories to border skirmishes 🚂
The headline change is an army readiness balance system that tweaks a country's fighting power before full-scale war (example: Czechoslovakia before Munich). Owners of Arms Against Tyranny get deeper international procurement mechanics; others get a simplified trade-via-decisions system. Germany can...
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