• Ukraine’s LITAVR interceptor reaches 350 km/h, needs no GPS, and has destroyed a Shahed without operator instruction.
  • A Ukrainian Cabinet resolution in April created a fast-track procurement path, with combat validation replacing committee approval.
  • Germany’s Diehl Defence Cobra 600 reaches about 400 km carrying an IRIS-T missile, and French startup Alta Ares raised €50m for AI-guided interceptors.