Europe is buying air defence faster than industry can build it. Ground-based systems from Patriot and SAMP/T to IRIS-T and indigenous programmes like Türkiye's Steel Dome compete for the same production slots, while the missile stockpile mathematics behind them stay uncomfortable. ISC covers the layer most analysis skips: the ordnance. This hub gathers briefings on interceptor production and procurement, long-range air-to-air missiles, national air-defence architectures, and the NATO framework contracts that decide who gets magazines filled first.
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| 13 Jul 2026 | CENTCOM's Hormuz Strike Campaign: What the Target Set Tells Ammunition Specialists US Central Command struck hundreds of Iranian targets over three July 2026 nights. An ordnance-focused read of the storage sites, small boats and coastal air d… | Operational Analysis |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Britain's First Low-Cost Air Defence Contracts: Three Firms, One Cost Problem The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded 3.16 million pounds to three British firms, Frankenburg Technologies, Greenjets and Cambridge Aerospace, for low-cost ai… | NATO Procurement |
| 13 Jul 2026 | SAMP/T: Why Faster Availability Means Interceptors, Not New Batteries Aster 30 interceptor supply, not launcher numbers, is the real constraint on faster SAMP/T availability for Ukraine. What can move in 2026, and what waits unti… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 10 Jul 2026 | Turkey's Reported S-400 Resale to a Gulf State: Confirmed Facts, Open Questions, and the Steel Dome Enabler Turkish media report Turkey has resold its two Russian S-400 systems to a Gulf state. ISC separates confirmed fact from claim across the Kremlin's contacts, Tr… | NATO Procurement |
| 10 Jul 2026 | SİPER Enters Service as the Upper Layer of Türkiye’s Steel Dome Air Defence Shield SİPER, Türkiye’s indigenous long-range surface-to-air missile, has entered service as the upper layer of the Steel Dome shield. A WOME technical read on its wa… | NATO Procurement |
| 6 Jul 2026 | NATO Ballistic Missile Defence: The Aegis Ashore Shield and Its Interceptor Reality | Operational Analysis |
| 6 Jul 2026 | AeroVironment's $500m US Army Counter-Drone Award: The Kinetic, Laser and RF Effector Stack AeroVironment has won a $500 million, three-year US Army contract for layered counter-drone effectors spanning RF defeat, lasers and the FE-1 kinetic intercept… | WOME Intelligence |
| 5 Jul 2026 | NSPA Flags Two AESA Early-Warning Radars for Belgium, One Fixed and One Deployable, in a D/L-Band Air-Defence Buy | NATO Procurement |
| 5 Jul 2026 | Which Radar Meets the NSPA Belgium FBO? The Case for the Leonardo RAT-31DL Family | NATO Procurement |
| 4 Jul 2026 | Belgium's EUR 3.1 Billion Air-Defence Plan Puts 30 mm AHEAD Airburst Ammunition at the Centre of Its Counter-Drone Gun Layer | NATO Procurement |
| 1 Jul 2026 | UK, Japan and Italy Extend GCAP Sixth-Generation Fighter Contract Through 2027 Japan, the UK and Italy will extend the GCAP sixth-generation fighter contract through 2027 after Britain published its delayed Defence Investment Plan. | Defence Industrial Base |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Europe Builds Its Laser Drone Shield as Directed-Energy Effectors Reach the Fleet NATO's 2025 Integrated Air and Missile Defence policy is the backbone: how Europe's DragonFire, THORIS, PESCO DES and TALOS-TWO laser programmes fill its count… | Operational Analysis |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Quadrupling THAAD: the $35bn interceptor buy rests on a solid rocket motor bottleneck Lockheed Martin's $35.3bn seven-year THAAD award aims to quadruple interceptor output, yet solid rocket motor and energetics capacity set the real ceiling. | Defence Industrial Base |
| 12 Jun 2026 | United States Approves $292 Million AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM Sale to South Korea The US State Department has approved a $292 million foreign military sale of 70 AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles and support to South Korea. | WOME Intelligence |
| 29 May 2026 | Reach Over the Front Line: Ukraine Could Receive the Meteor Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile Sweden's pledge of 16 Gripen C/D fighters could give Ukraine the Meteor ramjet-powered BVRAAM for the first time, a missile with the reach to threaten Su-34 gl… | WOME Intelligence |
| 29 May 2026 | CSIS: US Precision Munitions Stockpile Rebuild Will Take Years CSIS assessment of US TLAM, THAAD, Patriot and SM-series stockpiles after Operation Epic Fury — multi-year replenishment, production-rate gap, FY27 budget sign… | WOME Intelligence |
| 25 May 2026 | Pentagon Names 14 Critical Munitions Top Priority DoD designates 14 munitions, including Patriot, AMRAAM, LRASM and Tomahawk variants, as critical production priorities following Iran War stock depletion. | WOME Intelligence |
| 23 May 2026 | Pentagon MAC Names 14 Critical Munitions for Accelerated Production Munitions Acceleration Council issues priority list including Patriot, AMRAAM, LRASM and Tomahawk variants. WOME implications for energetics supply, fuzing thr… | WOME Intelligence |
| 22 May 2026 | MADIS as a Tactical Pair: How the Marines Built a Counter-Drone System Across Two JLTVs Deep dive on the US Marine Corps Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS) as a tactical pair. Both Mk1 and Mk2 carry an identical Kongsberg Protector RS6 w… | Special Reports |
| 21 May 2026 | One Vehicle or Two: SGT STOUT, MADIS, and the Counter-Drone Architectural Split Deep dive on the architectural split between the US Army SGT STOUT (single Stryker A1, XM914 electric dual-feed) and the US Marine Corps MADIS (JLTV Mk1/Mk2 pa… | WOME Intelligence |
| 21 May 2026 | NATO Confirms PURL Pipeline Intact: PAC-3 Interceptors Flowing NATO SACEUR Grynkewich confirms all paid-for PURL air-defence interceptors are reaching Ukraine. Programme value tops US$5.5bn; PAC-3 MSE missiles among items… | Operational Analysis |
| 20 May 2026 | The $2,500 Drone Problem: How Cardboard Aircraft Are Rewriting Air-Defence Economics Japan's JMSDF has put the AirKamuy 150 cardboard drone into service. Ukraine proved the SYPAQ Corvo concept against Russian air bases in 2023. Iran's Shahed-13… | Operational Analysis |
| 13 May 2026 | US Navy Stands Up PAE Munitions Acquisition Authority US Navy consolidates Tomahawk, SM-3, AMRAAM, ESSM and NATO Seasparrow under a single PAE Munitions four-pillar industrial-base authority, 11 May 2026. | WOME Intelligence |
| 13 May 2026 | Pentagon MAC Names 14 Critical Munitions for Surge Production Munitions Acceleration Council priority list — Patriot PAC-3, THAAD, AMRAAM, Tomahawk, SM family — sets the seven-year MYP framework and $52.9B investment post… | Standards & Regulation |
| 8 May 2026 | Hormuz Blockade Severs Urea Supply to US Munitions Six weeks of US-Iran operations depleted 45% of PrSM and 50% of THAAD/Patriot stocks. Gulf urea supply disruption now threatens propellant restocking. | WOME Intelligence |
| 6 May 2026 | Canada Commits US$200M to NATO PURL for Ukraine Munitions Canada pledges US$200M through NATO's Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) to procure US-built ammunition, air defence interceptors and other priority… | WOME Intelligence |
| 5 May 2026 | US $8.6bn Emergency FMS: APKWS & Patriot to Middle East US State Department invokes emergency determination for $8.6bn arms sales to Qatar, Kuwait, Israel and UAE: APKWS, Patriot PAC-3 MSE, energetics bottleneck. | WOME Intelligence |
| 5 May 2026 | US Army $441.6M Patriot GEM-T Buy for Epic Fury Replenishment US Army awards Raytheon RTX $441.6M firm-fixed-price modification for MIM-104 Patriot GEM-T interceptor production tied to Operation Epic Fury replenishment. | WOME Intelligence |
| 4 May 2026 | US Patriot Stocks at ~50% After Iran Operations US Patriot and PAC-3 MSE interceptor stocks at approximately 50% after Iran operations. Qatar emergency sale of 500 interceptors signals forward-stockpiling. | Operational Analysis |
| 4 May 2026 | State Department Invokes Emergency FMS Authority for $8.6bn Patriot, APKWS and IBCS Sale to Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE The US State Department invoked emergency Arms Export Control Act authority on 1-2 May 2026 to expedite four FMS packages totalling $8.6bn — $4bn Qatar Patriot… | Standards & Regulation |
| 4 May 2026 | NSPA Ammunition Support Partnership: Five Procurement Notices Map 2026 Pipeline NSPA opens five Ammunition Support Partnership procurement tracks in late April and early May 2026 — three sole-source awards (SLAP-T, AT2 mines, PATRIOT test… | NATO Procurement |
| 3 May 2026 | Pentagon MAC Names 14 Critical Munitions for FY27 Acceleration: Iran-War Replenishment Drives Industrial Priority List The Pentagon's Munitions Acceleration Council (MAC) has named 14 critical munitions — 12 legacy and 2 emerging — for FY27 production acceleration. PAC-3 MSE, S… | WOME Intelligence |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Denmark Signs €1.47 Billion SAMP/T NG Contract — ISC Defence Intelligence Denmark has signed the first export contract for the eurosam SAMP/T NG, becoming the third operator after France and Italy. An in-depth analysis covering why P… | WOME Intelligence |
| 16 Apr 2026 | RTX $3.7bn Patriot GEM-T via Schrobenhausen for Ukraine Raytheon discloses a $3.7 billion contract to supply Patriot GEM-T interceptors for Ukraine, with output from the new COMLOG facility at Schrobenhausen, German… | WOME Intelligence |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Türkiye's US$3bn Kirikkale Missile Complex: Roketsan Delivers Eleven Strike Systems to TSK Türkiye opens US$1 billion of a planned US$3 billion Kirikkale missile production, warhead and propellant complex. Roketsan delivers 11 in-house strike systems… | WOME Intelligence |
| 10 Apr 2026 | Saab's Giraffe 1X Baltic Expansion: NATO's Sensor Gap USD 23.9 million US Army contract for ten Saab Giraffe 1X radars reveals NATO's critical sensor gap in Baltic air defence—the ability to detect and enable enga… | NATO Procurement |
| 7 Apr 2026 | NATO Identifies $145 Billion Munitions Gap as All Members Hit 2% GDP Spending Target NATO REPEAD process quantifies $145 billion in shared munitions and air defence requirements. All 32 members meet 2% GDP target for first time as Alliance conf… | WOME Intelligence |
| 30 Mar 2026 | NATO Deploys Third Patriot Battery to Türkiye NATO deploys third Patriot battery to Türkiye as Alliance confronts air defence gap it once refused to fill. Analysis of strategic reversal, Patriot technical… | WOME Intelligence |
| 30 Mar 2026 | NATO Identifies $145B Munitions & Air Defence Gap NATO’s REPEAD process identified $145 billion in shared munition and air defence requirements. All 32 members met or exceeded 2% defence spending benchmark for… | NATO Procurement |
| 27 Mar 2026 | XM121 30mm HE-P Round: US Army Adapts Existing Munitions for Counter-UAS Role The US Army Capability Programme Executive for Ammunition and Energetics is repurposing existing 30 mm, mortar and artillery natures with proximity fuze… | WOME Intelligence |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Iranian Cluster Warhead Ballistic Missiles: Technical Assessment of Submunition Dispersal and Air Defence Implications Iran has integrated cluster warheads across a significant portion of its medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) inventory, deploying 20–80 explosive submu… | WOME Intelligence |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Iranian Ballistic Missile Strikes on Dimona and Arad: Cluster Munition Warhead Types and Terminal Effects Assessment — ISC Defence Intelligence Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on Dimona and Arad employed cluster munition warheads with 20–30 or 70–80 submunitions depending on missile type. ISC Defence… | WOME Intelligence |
| 14 Mar 2026 | Research Dossier: Denmark DALO-Elbit Systems Procurement Controversy Comprehensive research dossier documenting Denmark's controversial DALO air defence system procurement and parliamentary scrutiny. | Special Reports |
| 3 Mar 2026 | UK leads multinational low-cost air defence weapons development programme UK and European NATO allies are jointly developing affordable surface-to-air weapons to strengthen air defence capabilities. The multinational initiative addre… | WOME Intelligence |