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 …

The Department of Defense announced today the award of a new contract to augment the Department’s capacity to conduct regular hypersonic flight tests more regularly. Dynetics and a team of over 20 industry partners have been awarded a Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Crane Division Other Transac…

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…

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…

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 …

The government plans to spend approximately NOK 1.2 billion on the defense sector’s real estate projects and building and construction projects in Troms and Finnmark in 2023. In addition, the government plans material investments of approximately NOK 3.8 billion. The funds are used for investments f…