Category: Notizie Estero

MADRID — The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, this morning presided over the signing of the contract for the manufacture of 348 “Dragon” 8X8 Wheeled Combat Vehicles (VCR), with a duration of ten years.

Robles described the contract as “a historic milestone” since “it is essential for the …

LONDON — Britain could buy only half its target of 138 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, according to sources close to the government’s defence review.

The UK has agreed to buy 48 of the stealth multirole jets by the end of 2025 for £9.1 billion. It is the most expensive weapons system in militar…

MADRID — Indra will equip the 348 8×8 Dragón Wheeled Combat Vehicles (WCVs) procured by Spain’s Ministry of Defence with an advanced state-of-the art Mission System and electronic architecture that will give the vehicle the highest degree of safety and superiority, for more than 150 million euros …

The Swedish Armed Forces has initiated a high readiness action in the south-eastern and southern Baltic Sea, due to the current, extensive military activity in the Baltic Sea region.

These are times of unrest, global security is going through rapid changes and we are witnessing a deteriorated sec…

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia, is awarded a $191,723,019 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00024-20-C-6117) for the procurement of engineering design development services and associated material and travel, supporting the fleet of Navy submarines and Foreign Militar…

The 2021 budget proposal for the administrative branch of the Ministry of Defence amounts to EUR 4.87 billion. This is EUR 1.7 billion or 54% more than in the current budget.

The increase is to a large extent due to the funding proposed to procure multi-role fighters (HX project). Without the HX …