Yearly Archive: 2022

With over 50 billion euros in the defense budget for 2023 and around 8.4 billion euros from the Special Fund, further important investments in the best possible material and equipment for the Bundeswehr can be made in the coming year. The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved the draft b…

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $400 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s twenty-fifth drawdown of equipment from DoD invent…

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-6, or OTV-6, the U.S. Space Force’s unmanned, reusable spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility Nov. 12.

The OTV-6 was the first mission to introduce a service module—a ring …

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry ordered an additional batch of cutting-edge Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, a source close to the military agency told TASS.

“As reported earlier, the first contract to produce a batch of Tsirkons was signed in the summer of 2021. An additional contract – this fa…

The Minister of Defense today gave the Chief of Defense the mandate for a new professional military advice. “The world has changed dramatically since the long-term plan for the defense sector was adopted two years ago. It is therefore necessary to strengthen our own defence,” says Defense Minister B…