Category: Notizie Estero

ATHENS — The Ministry of Defense has apparently decided to spend €500 million to upgrade its four Hydra-Class MEKO frigates. The upgrade will allow the 3,200-ton frigates, commissioned in the 1990s, to remain operational for 15 more years.

If the decision stands, it will be a departure from the…

BERLIN — Germany will buy 60 CH-47F Chinook heavy transport helicopters from Boeing worth around 5 billion euros ($5.40 billion) as it upgrades its military armory, Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday, citing government sources.

The helicopters will be financed from the 100 billion eur…

STOCKHOLM — Total global military expenditure increased by 0.7 per cent in real terms in 2021, to reach $2113 billion. The five largest spenders in 2021 were the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom and Russia, together accounting for 62 per cent of expenditure, according to new data on…

MOSCOW — A new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying several hypersonic weapons, a senior Russian military officer said Sunday.

Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military’s Strategic Missile Forces, said in televised remarks that the new Sarmat…

ZURICH — Neutral Switzerland has held up German arms deliveries to Ukraine by blocking the re-export of Swiss-made ammunition used in Marder infantry fighting vehicles that Kyiv would like to get, Swiss paper Sonntags Zeitung reported.

The news comes as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz faces growi…

OTTAWA, Ontario — As the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, committed earlier this week, Canada has provided heavy artillery to the Security Forces of Ukraine, as Ukraine has requested.

To this end, Canada has now delivered a number of M777 howitzers and associated ammunition to the Sec…