This week the European Union approved laws to grow its own defense industry, the Pentagon fixed its missile-buying process after running low on stock during Iran's strikes, and India's defense ministry pushed to reform weapons buying and research tied to a $25 billion industry.
EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a new EU-only alarm system that would let any of the Union's 27 member states trigger a joint EU response to security crises that fall short of an outright armed attack.
A new report says European countries are quietly starting to build their own intelligence-gathering instead of depending on the United States, warning Washington could end up shut out of the very spy-sharing networks it built.
A Czech company called LPP Holding has finished testing Narwhal, the country's first home-built cruise missile, which can hit targets more than 600 kilometres away.