“The status of the Armed Forces is not where it should be. New equipment arrives later than planned, construction projects become more expensive and we have challenges in retaining and recruiting the right expertise. This is worrying in the security policy situation we are in after the invasion of U…

FMV has ordered services from Saab to maintain the JAS 39 C / D fighter aircraft operationally relevant until the mid-2030s. The work aims to maintain and expand availability, but also provides a number of capacity increases. The order value is SEK 500 million.

JAS 39 C / D is the combat aircraft…

BELGRADE — Russian ally Serbia took the delivery of a sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft system in a veiled operation this weekend, amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans at the time of the war in Ukraine could threaten the fragile peace in the region.

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A fleet of six Y-20 cargo planes of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force was reportedly spotted in Serbia on Saturday, with observers saying on Sunday that it could be the largest overseas operation by the Chinese domestically developed large transport plane yet, displaying the count…

Bratislava and Kyiv are negotiating the possible sale of 155-mm self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. Militarnyi reports about this with reference to the Slovak newspaper Spravy.pravda.sk.

Jaroslav Nad, Slovak Defense Minister, said that Slovakia could be supplying Ukraine with some of its Zuzana …

This morning, via videoconference, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke to a small number of Ukrainian forces who are returning to Ukraine from the United States.

The forces were in the United States as part of the Defense Department’s long history of hosting Ukrainian service members…