Overview

• The MoD published TPCR-2025 as guidance for industry, defining requirements through 2040 without committing procurement funds.
• The Army outlines roughly 1,700–1,800 next-generation tanks, 300–400 light tanks, 50,000 tank-mounted ATGMs and over 700 robotic counter-IED systems.
• The Navy signals a new carrier equipped with EMALS and projects at least 10 nuclear-propulsion systems for future warships, alongside next-generation frigates and corvettes.
• The Air Force seeks 150 stealth UCAVs, 75 high-altitude pseudo-satellites, 20 stratospheric airships, directed-energy weapons and high-power lasers, plus hundreds of precision munitions.
• The services project over 500 hypersonic missiles and call for detection and countermeasures, with added focus on nuclear survivability, CBRN response, satellite cyber-hardening and anti-swarm electronic warfare.