News ‘Hyperscale’ military drone facility to be built in Ohio Construction is about to begin on a 465,000 sq m military drone factory on a 200ha plot in Ohio for defence company Anduril, estimated to cost almost $1bn. The plant…
News China building ‘doomsday fortress’ 10 times bigger than Pentagon China is building a military complex on the outskirts of Beijing that will be 10 times bigger than the Pentagon – until recently the largest office in the world, the…
News Norway mulls making bomb shelters mandatory in new builds again The Norwegian government wants to bring back a requirement for all new buildings over a certain size to include bomb shelters, citing lessons learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The…
News Battery giant CATL now on US list of ‘Chinese Military Companies’ The US Department of Defence (DOD) has included Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) to its list of “Chinese military companies”. The move will prevent the company from fulfilling…
News Rheinmetall to build €180m shell factory in Lithuania German arms maker Rheinmetall has signed a deal with the Lithuanian government to build a factory to make 155mm artillery shells. The company has leased 340ha of land near the…
News Sweden rejects 30GW of offshore wind projects near Kaliningrad Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected farms together would have had around 30GW of…
News Poland to start building ‘East Shield’ against Russia this year The Polish government this week brought forward the start of construction on the country’s €2.3bn “East Shield” defence line along its eastern border intended to deter Russian attacks through either…
News Baltics and Poland ask EU to help pay for fortifications against Russia Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have asked the EU to help them pay for new fortifications along their borders with Russia and its ally, Belarus. The defence ministers of the…
News Lithuania builds base for 4,000 German troops amid Ukraine invasion Lithuania this week started building a 170-hectare military base to house some 4,000 combat-ready German troops about 20km from the border with Belarus, Russia’s close ally. The move comes in…
News Sweco lands €21m Danish defence framework The Danish Ministry of Defence Estate Agency (MDEA) has awarded Sweco a four-year construction consultancy framework worth around €21m. It’s the first time the MDEA has signed on with a…
News Tokyo plans a public bomb shelter as world affairs turn ‘rocky’ Tokyo plans to build a civilian bomb shelter under a central subway station because of growing global tensions, Japan Times reports. It will be dug under the Azabu-Juban subway station…