Yearly Archive: 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday once more stressed that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was a turning point in European history, underlining the importance of Germany’s armed forces in the new situation.

He said Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to redraw borders with the aim of ma…

LONDON — Three of the world’s biggest defence contractors are lining up bids to replace Britain’s workhorse battlefield helicopter in a test of a new procurement approach that will judge offers on their “social” impact as well as capability and price.

Airbus, Leonardo UK and Lockheed Martin are…

From 16 to 18 September 2022, the Allied Chiefs of Defence gathered for their annual conference, in Tallinn, Estonia. For the first time, Finland and Sweden attended the Military Committee Conference as NATO Invitees. The agenda reflected the changed security environment as well as the implementatio…

At a gathering of current and former U.S. officials and private-sector executives Friday in Washington, concern was rampant that the United States has fallen behind China in the development of several key technologies, and that it faces an uncertain future in which other countries could challenge it…

RAMSTEIN, Germany — Two US B-52s departed from RAF Fairford to carry out the Bomber Task Force (BTF) mission, which performed simulated deep precision strikes with 4th and 5th generation fighters against adversarial integrated air defence systems near Orland Air Base, Norway on September 15, 2022….

The defense authority on the island of Taiwan on Saturday spotted a CH-4 armed reconnaissance drone of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) near the island for the first time, marking the sixth type of drone that has appeared in the region in September following the WZ-7 high-altitude reconnai…