{"id":234217,"date":"2026-06-20T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/paris-arms-fair-showcases-weapons-of-future-amid-europes-push-to-rearm\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:30:30","slug":"paris-arms-fair-showcases-weapons-of-future-amid-europes-push-to-rearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/paris-arms-fair-showcases-weapons-of-future-amid-europes-push-to-rearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris arms fair showcases weapons of future amid Europe&#8217;s push to rearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international\/20260620-paris-arms-fair-turns-to-drones-and-ai-as-critics-denounce-rearmament\">Paris arms fair showcases weapons of future amid Europe&#8217;s push to rearm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international\/20260620-paris-arms-fair-turns-to-drones-and-ai-as-critics-denounce-rearmament\">https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international\/20260620-paris-arms-fair-turns-to-drones-and-ai-as-critics-denounce-rearmament<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 04:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rfi.fr\">www.rfi.fr<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2026 Eurosatory defence show highlighted the future of warfare with a significant focus on drones, robotics, and artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Exhibits featured tethered surveillance drones, AI-powered robots for dangerous missions without human operators, and unmanned ground vehicles in use in the war in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>The defence industry is predicted to benefit from a European rearmament drive, partly due to US President Donald Trump&#8217;s urging for Europe to increase defence spending.<\/li>\n<li>The United States remains the leading arms supplier globally, with France in second place and experiencing a 21% climb in arms exports from 2016-20 to 2021-25.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-war protests marked the event, with French campaign group Guerre \u00e0 la Guerre opposing the fair as a \u201cglobal supermarket of war and control\u201d and pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocking access roads to the exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Israel and Russia were excluded or had their displays heavily restricted due to the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, demonstrating the political sensitivity surrounding the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris arms fair showcases weapons of future amid Europe&#8217;s push to rearm https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international\/20260620-paris-arms-fair-turns-to-drones-and-ai-as-critics-denounce-rearmament Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/15eaee5c-6a4d-11f1-8ed1-005056bf30b7\/w:1280\/p:16x9\/IMG-2231.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-234217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234219,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234217\/revisions\/234219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}