Monthly Archive: Giugno 2020

The House Committee on Armed Services (HASC) tasked the Secretary of the Air Force (SECAF), in coordination with the Commander of U.S. Transportation Command (CDRUSTRANSCOM), to report on the feasibility, affordability, and advisability of initiating use of contractor-operated aerial refueling aircr…

US President Donald Trump has announced a reduction in American troops stationed in Germany. He faulted Berlin for failing to meet its NATO spending obligations and accused it of treating the US “unfairly” on trade.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is reducing the number of Americ…

BRUSSELS — The Commission announced today 16 pan-European defence industrial projects and three disruptive technology projects that will benefit from €205 million financing through the two precursor programmes of a fully-fledged European Defence Fund: the Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PA…

GATINEAU, Quebec — Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, and the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, announced that Canada has taken an important step toward delivering the RCN’s future fleet, by awarding a performance-based contract…

The Council of States has adopted five federal decrees relating to the 2020 Message on the Military, including one relating to an expenditure ceiling of 21.1 billion Swiss francs for the period 2021 to 2024.

As several major army systems will reach the end of their service life over the coming ye…

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has warned the US Air Force’s GBU-53 StormBreaker, better known as the Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB), has suffered almost a year’s delay thanks to a problem discovered with the gliding bomb’s folding wings.

The slim SDB is a 204-pound munition fitted…