Category: Notizie Estero

National defence is often focused on military strategy, i.e. various ways of reducing an adversary’s physical capacity and/or willingness to fight. However, the military assets of a state are only one aspect of its potential to deter and withstand aggression. The military capacity becomes largely ir…

Anápolis Air Base (BAAN) on Nov. 19 held the ceremony marking the conclusion of the KC-390 Aircraft Course for Portuguese Air Force (FAP) crew members, the result of a Bilateral Agreement signed between Brazil and Portugal.

The event was attended by the Commander of Logistics and President of th…

MIDLAND, Ontario — Raytheon ELCAN, a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, and LEONARDO Germany, a Leonardo SpA subsidiary, were awarded a contract for 107,929 sights to provide the main combat sight (HKV) for the German Armed Forces. Leonardo Germany is the prime contractor to the BAAINBw and will pr…

LUXEMBOURG — The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has delivered the last batch of 139 armoured vehicles to the Portuguese Army, consisting of eight Emergency Response Vehicles, under the Light Armoured Tactical Vehicle programme or Viaturas Taticas Ligeiras Blindades (VTLC).

The deliv…

MILAN — Tempest and Future Combat Air System (FCAS), two European programmes designed to build new fighter jets, will eventually merge, Italy’s Air Force Chief of Staff said on Tuesday.

At a time when European Union members weigh closer cooperation on defence without weakening the ties that som…

The UK, US and Nato have offered reassurances that Russia will not get hold of the downed F-35B plane in the Mediterranean, insisting “we’ll get it first”.

The allies vowed to retrieve the £100 million ($133.7 million) warplane from the seabed after Britain said the Russians had been playing “clo…