Yearly Archive: 2022

PARIS — The French-German-Spanish Next-Generation Fighter (NGF) program has already slipped by several years, and is now more likely to enter service in the 2050s than in the 2040s as originally planned, according to Dassault Aviation’s chief executive.

The original objective of “2040 is alread…

In the Armaments Message 2022, the Federal Council asks the Federal Chambers for commitment appropriations for a total amount of 9.3 billion francs. These appropriations include the acquisition of the F-35A fighter planes (6.035 billion francs) and the Patriot surface-to-air defense system (1.987 bi…

A new, ambitious Defence Science & Technology agenda, backed by £2 billion of investment and including an exciting new satellite launch, has been commissioned today.

Aimed at driving forward cutting-edge research and developing new Defence capabilities, the Science & Technology Portfolio outlines…

MBDA presents AKERON, a unique family of fifth-generation tactical combat missiles, a quantum leap from the third and fourth generation weapons currently available on the market.

This family includes the MMP and MHT missiles, now renamed AKERON MP and AKERON LP respectively. With AKERON, MBDA is…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday arrived in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on his first official visit to a NATO country bordering Russia since the war in Ukraine started.

Scholz met with the heads of government of the Baltic states to discuss the state of security on NATO’s eastern flank…