BERN — At its meeting on August 24, 2022, the Ministry of Defense (DDPS) informed the Federal Council of the current state of the procedure and the follow-up to be given to the popular initiative “Against the F-35 (stop F -35)”.

The DDPS will prepare the message for submission to the Federal C…

LONDON — Three simultaneous crises have engulfed the Royal Air Force in as many weeks in a huge challenge for its leader, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, who has yet to break cover.

Each scandal alone would have been bad enough. But together they sound serious alarm bells about the state of…

“On Friday, we are signing executive agreements with South Korea to equip the Polish Army with K2 tanks and K9 self-propelled howitzers,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak in an interview with Polskatimes.pl.

The contracts will be signed in Morąg, Poland. …

As the Pentagon rushes to replenish billions of dollars in weapons sent to Ukraine, its inspector general says he’s on high alert for signs of fraud and abuse in the thousands of contracts being awarded.

“We have developed a universe of thousands of Ukraine-related contracts” that come in under $…

Taiwan announced plans for a record increase to its defense budget on Thursday after huge military drills by China earlier this month sent tensions between the two to their highest in decades.

Taipei has proposed a defense budget of NT$415.1 billion ($13.7 billion) for next year, up 13% year-on-y…

Ukraine will receive the state-of-the-art IRIS-T air defense system in the near future. The German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock reported about this.

“Specifically, in the field of air defense, where support is primarily requested, we made sure that the highly modern Iris-T system…