Category: Notizie Estero

ATHENS — Greece’s purchase of Rafale fighter jets, whose acquisition is expected to be approved by the Greek Parliament next week, was discussed on Tuesday by Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos and his French counterpart Florence Parly.

The French minister, who also discussed wider bi…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted on two resolutions of disapproval Wednesday, failing to block the Trump administration’s planned sale of more than $23 billion in military equipment to the United Arab Emirates.

The resolutions failed, with the Senate, splitting mostly along party lines, vo…

PARIS — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met on Wednesday with Eric Trappier, the CEO of Dassault Aviation — manufacturer of Rafale fighter jets — in Paris to discuss ways of bolstering cooperation.

According to the Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady, the meeting tackled aspects …

PARIS — Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, expresses her great satisfaction after the success, on December 9, 2020, of the first firing of the modernized Air-Sol Moyenne Portée Amélioré (ASMPA) air-launched, medium-range stand-off missile.

She extends her warm congratulations to all …

The German government has extended the arms export ban for Saudi Arabia by a year until the end of 2021, Suddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported today quoting a government spokeswoman’s statement to the German dpa press agency. The embargo has even been tightened, as export licenses that have already been…

MUNICH / THE HAGUE — Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and the Dutch procurement agency DMO (Defence Materiel Organisation) have signed a contract for the upgrading of 322 Fennek vehicles.

The MLU (Mid Life Update) order has a volume of over EUR 300 million and includes among others the integration …