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Denmark says spending boost will surpass NATO target
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
Russia's invasion of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014 served as a wake-up call for European countries and saw NATO increase its minimum defence spending requirements fr...
Demand for air defence drives record orders at MBDA
Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)
MBDA booked 9.9 billion euros ($10 billion) of orders in 2023, up from 5.1 billion in 2021, the year before Russia's invasion, its president Eric Beranger said ...
European arms imports nearly double over Ukraine: study
Mar 10, 2024 (AFP)
Ukraine has become the world's fourth largest arms importer, while France has replaced Russia as the world's second largest exporter behind the United States. A...
Ukraine to get 800,000 shells in weeks: Czech president
Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)
The head of state, a retired NATO general, said an 18-nation coalition called the Czech initiative collected the money, at a time when Europe's defence industry...
EU seeks to boost defence two years after Russia's Ukraine invasion
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
"The threat of war may not be imminent, but it is not impossible," commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said last week, adding: "It is time for Europe to step ...
EU proposes vast defence boost, spurred by Russian war in Ukraine
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
The European Commission says the 27-nation bloc is facing a new "security paradigm" with an expansionist Russia operating a wartime economy as it presses into y...
China boosts defence spending as regional disputes heat up
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
The 7.2 percent increase, identical to last year's figure, was announced at the start of the annual meeting of the country's rubber-stamp parliament, the Nation...
Sweden arms exports rose 18 percent in 2023
Mar 04, 2024 (AFP)
Most of the exports went to European Union countries and 39 countries which Sweden cooperates with, the Swedish Inspectorate for Strategic Products (ISP) said i...
Man held in Spain for illegal military exports to Saudi
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
The firm, based in the southern port city of Malaga, exported "engines and spare parts for tanks and armoured personnel carriers" worth 2.8 million euros (aroun...
House committee grills Lloyd Austin over handling of hospitalization
Feb 29, 2024 (UPI)
Austin faced the House Armed Services Committee to answer for his unexplained absence. The defense secretary underwent surgery for prostate cancer in December a...
Use Russian asset profits to arm Ukraine: EU chief
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
Calls have been mounting to find ways to support Kyiv's war effort by tapping the bank accounts, investments and other assets frozen after Russia invaded its ne...
Pentagon finds no wrongdoing in handling of secretary's hospitalization
Feb 27, 2024 (UPI)
Austin underwent surgery for prostate cancer Dec. 22, and was rehospitalized Jan. 1 due to a bladder issue that subsequently developed. However, neither the Whi...
European allies pledge to plug Ukraine weapons shortages; no consensus on ground troops
Feb 27, 2024 (UPI)
Speaking after a Ukraine conference in Paris on Monday attended by leaders and ministers from 20 nations, including Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz, British fo...
Half of Western arms to Ukraine delivered late: defence minister
Feb 25, 2024 (AFP)
Ukraine, which is struggling with an ammunition shortage, has for months said that Western aid is slow to reach it and this has real consequences for its two-ye...
Armenia signs arms contract with France: defence ministers
Feb 23, 2024 (AFP)
Armenia signed a contract with French arms manufacturer PGM to buy the guns, its defence minister Suren Papikian told a news conference in Yerevan alongside his...
US to sanction over 500 targets involved in Russia 'war machine'
Feb 23, 2024 (AFP)
The action to be rolled out on Friday will hit "Russia, its enablers, and its war machine," a Treasury spokesperson told AFP. The official added that these sanc...
EU targets Chinese firms, N. Korea in new Ukraine war sanctions
Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)
The fresh round of measures -- the 13th since Russian President Vladimir Putin's February 2022 invasion -- overall targets some two hundred officials and entiti...
BAE profit jumps as Ukraine war boosts defence spending
Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)
Profit after tax stood at almost 1.9 billion ($2.4 billion) for 2023, BAE said in a statement. Revenue climbed nine percent to 23 billion. "Our performance, com...
Somalia endorses defence deal with Turkey
Feb 21, 2024 (AFP)
Under the 10-year pact, close ally Turkey will help defend Somalia's long coastline and also rebuild the naval forces of the fragile Horn of Africa nation, Pres...
Sweden says to give Ukraine $682 mn military aid
Feb 20, 2024 (AFP)
"The reason we are continuing to support Ukraine is a matter of humanity and decency. Russia started an illegal, unprovoked and indefensible war," Defence Minis...
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