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French 2023 Defense Budget to Increase by 7% to €44 Billion

French 2023 Defense Budget to Increase by 7% to €44 Billion

During the presentation of the 2023 finance bill before the Defense and Armed Forces Committee of the National Assembly, the Minister for the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, underlined, on Wednesday, October 5, the importance of adapting the national defense effort to the challenges of our time. A …
German Brigade Conducts First Exercise in Lithuania

German Brigade Conducts First Exercise in Lithuania

KLAIPEDA, Lithuania — On the evening of the 5th October 2022, soldiers from the German 413 Light Infantry Battalion disembarked in the port of Klaipeda for Exercise Fast Griffin. The exercise is the first training deployment of elements of the future German enhanced Vigilance Activity Brigade (DEU…
EU Prepares to Launch Military Training Mission for Ukraine

EU Prepares to Launch Military Training Mission for Ukraine

The European Union plans to launch a military training mission for Ukraine. This should be announced at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative, wrote about this in his blog at the EEAS website. “At the next Foreign Affairs Council on 17 October, I hope we can f…

General Atomics Delivers First Protector UAV to Royal Air Force

General Atomics Delivers First Protector UAV to Royal Air Force

SAN DIEGO — Acceptance Test Procedures (ATP) for the first Protector RG Mk1 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) system has been completed. Completion of ATP allowed for the official hand-over of the aircraft to the UK Royal Air Force (RAF), the launch customer of the MQ-9B RPA system developed by Gene…
French Carrier Group Conducts Aster Missile Firings

French Carrier Group Conducts Aster Missile Firings

PARIS — In the morning of Tuesday, October 4, the French Navy’s air defense frigate ‘Chevalier Paul’ successfully fired an Aster 30 anti-aircraft missile, developed in cooperation by France, Italy and the United Kingdom, in an environment artificially reproducing a tactical naval scenario similar …
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