No one doubts that President Donald Trump is a fan of the U.S. defense industry. “We have the greatest missiles in the world,” he recently told reporters, “We have the greatest submarines in the world ...

Start with fragmentation. Europe’s defence companies lag far behind their American counterparts in scale owing in part to the propensity of the continent’s governments to favour equipment from their ...

The Trump administration is selling weapons to European countries for an added profit. A top official has suggested that the money could finance American air cover for Ukraine as part of future ...

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(Bloomberg) -- A Gripen D fighter jet pierces through the clouds above southern Sweden and is soon cruising at nearly the speed of sound. The test pilot begins putting the warplane through its paces.

A worker installs a machine gun mount onto a Leopard 2A7 main battle tank at the KNDS heavy weapons factory in Kassel, Germany, on Aug. 01, 2025. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) PARIS — European defense ...