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Contracts will be let between now and 2019 to procure NATO satellite communications worth €1.5 billion, advanced software, and air defence capabilities. The first contracts have already been put out to tender. Koen Gijsbers,...
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Instead of criticising a new security treaty between Europe and America, Russia should consider coming under the umbrella of a NATO missile defence shield, the alliance’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said 8 October....
The European Commission has adopted today its 2023 Work Programme under the European Defence Fund, with an important budget of 1.2 B€ (in 2022 the budget was 924 M€). The 34 topics cover a...
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), received a $2.3 billion U.S. Missile Defense Agency production contract for seven gallium nitride (GaN)-based AN/TPY-2 radars as part of the Terminal High Altitude...
Defence Minister Guto Bebb hosted Secretary Tone Skogen, State Secretary in Norway’s Ministry of Defence, on her visit aboard a US Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft – equipment which both the UK and Norway will...
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop a next-generation missile warning system for aircraft that will protect pilots and crews from new and emerging threats. The U.S. Army has awarded...
The document is a summary of the US National Defence Strategy, with focus to the next five years. Jim Mattis “this strategy establishes my intent to pursue urgent change at significant scale” “We must...
Turkey has awarded Eurosam, Aselsan and Roketsan a contract for the definition study of the future Turkish Long Range Air and Missile Defence System. The contract award was made during the meeting of President...
In 2015 the emirate of Qatar ordered about $ 24 billion (nearly 8 billion Euros to US companies) from 20 suppliers of a dozen countries, confirming one of the biggest buyers weapons in the...
Transatlantic Defence Technological and Industrial Cooperation (TADIC) is an iterative NATO effort: enshrined in the basic principles, transatlantic cooperation has always been at the core of the Alliance. (NIAG TADIC Study here) More than...
Company veteran Michael Kurth will oversee Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] unmanned airborne systems as of Jan. 1. Kurth, currently managing director of Boeing Defence UK Ltd. (BDUK), will relocate to St. Louis as vice president...
Russia is developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the military announced Friday, in an apparent attempt to remind the United States of Moscow’s rocket capacities. read also United States is advancing better BMD technologies...
Early November the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible important potential Foreign Military Sales to the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar of Air Defence Systems in line...
UK plans nine-day exercise aimed at testing the military contribution to the overall Olimpic Games security effort. It includes the use of the Typhoon fighters which arrived at RAF Northolt yesterday, Army Lynx helicopters...
India has cleared a $1.2 billion deal to buy 500 air-to-air missiles from European firm MBDA as it undergoes a major programme to modernise its military, defence ministry officials said Thursday. The cabinet committee...
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov point of view here – The 29 nations of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) restated their commitment to pursuing cooperation on missile defence as well as cooperation in other security areas...
NATO and Russia failed to reach a breakthrough on a missile shield project in Europe on June 8 with the Russian defense minister complaining that Moscow’s demands were falling on deaf ears. After talks...
US missile interceptors would be deployed in southern Romania, a key link in Europe for a defence shield, prompting Moscow to ask for “safeguards” from Washington. (more on Missile Defence here) Romania and the...
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The FSAF missile family constitutes the most important missile programme ever launched in Europe and consists of Ground Systems (SAMP/T) and Naval Systems (SAAM – PAAMS) – the FSAF has been developed under a...
Russia is considering cooperating with NATO on anti-missile defence systems and other areas, the transatlantic alliance’s top military officer, Italian admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, said Thursday. “Missile defence has … been named by General...