Category: Notizie Estero

U.S. weapons are too complicated and costly to work

Pentagon weapons designers took a double-barreled shotgun blast to the gut last week. Both the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office peppered buckshot into the Defense Department’s hidebound buying bureaucra…

The White House has asked Congress to approve an additional $37.7 billion in aid for Ukraine. The package includes $21.7 billion in security assistance that would flow through the Pentagon, $14.5 billion for support from the State Department and USAID, $626 million for the Department of Energy to pr…

The army continues to grow over the next few years. It is now clear that the mechanized units will receive new vehicles. The Swedish Defense Materiel Administration, FMV, has signed a contract with BAE Systems for two new variants of Stridsfordon 90.

The deliveries of the new vehicles are planned…

PARIS — The Indonesian Ministry of Finance’s approval of foreign loans worth as much as $3.9 billion will allow the Ministry of Defense to proceed with three separate and long-deferred projects to modernize the Indonesian Air Force, Jane’s reported Nov. 15.

Approval letters that have been provi…

The Defense Committee of the Belgian House of Representatives will this morning examine the government’s draft 2023 defense budget, which notably includes €1.1 billion for weapons procurement, notably for helicopters. This was first reported by the Forces Operations blog.

This is one of the flags…

The government is coming forward with a winter package for Ukraine. The package is the largest to date and includes military and humanitarian support as well as support for the rehabilitation of critical infrastructure.

The military aid package is larger than all the previous eight aid packages o…