MILPLEX

The Military Industrial Complex

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France creates 100-mn-euro fund for Ukraine to buy arms
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
"We are setting up this special, dedicated fund initially with 100 million euros to allow the acquisition of equipment that we have already delivered and that w...
Norway seeks to up defence spending over Ukraine war
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
The Scandinavian country, which shares a 198-kilometre border with Russia in the Arctic, plans to use the extra resources to strengthen its military intelligenc...
One killed, two missing in Bulgaria arms factory blast
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
"The body of one of the three workers in the workshop, a 55-year-old man, was thrown out by the blast, he was dead," Plovdiv appeals prosecutor Todor Deyanov sa...
Sweden allows military exports to Turkey after NATO application
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
Ankara requested the lifting of the restrictions -- which were introduced in 2019 following a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria -- after Sweden applied to...
N. Korea denies exporting weapons to Russia
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
"We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before and we will not plan to export them," an official at the defence ministry's General Bureau of Equ...
Cyprus welcomes 'landmark' US lifting of arms embargo
Sep 17, 2022 (AFP)
The United States imposed the arms embargo on the whole of Cyprus in 1987 in the hope it could encourage its reunification. The Mediterranean island has been di...
Western arms production to ramp up as Ukraine burns through stockpiles
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced this week a meeting of senior national armaments directors from allied countries to make long-term plans for supplyi...
Austrian arms lobbyist convicted of money laundering
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly received a six-month suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay 50,000 euros ($50,600), deemed to have been "ill-gotten gains", a...
Russia buying huge amounts of N.Korean ammunition for Ukraine: US
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
"Our sense is you could include literally millions of rounds, rockets and artillery shells," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. Kirb...
Israel to get Boeing refuelling aircraft as part of US military aid: company
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
Boeing signed a $927 million contract with the US defense department on Thursday for the four KC-46A aircraft, the manufacturer's Israeli branch said in a state...
Japan defence ministry asks for $40 bn budget with eyes on Russia, China
Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)
Japan's defence spending has risen almost annually over the last decade, but pressure has grown for more following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and China's g...
Putin pushes Russia's combat-tested arms for export
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
"We are ready to offer allies and partners the most modern types of weapons -- from small arms to armoured vehicles and artillery, combat aircraft and unmanned ...
Poland signs weapons contracts with South Korea
Jul 27, 2022 (AFP)
The amount of the contracts, signed at a ceremony in the Polish capital with representatives of Korea Aerospace Industries and Hyundai, was not provided. "We're...
Poland to buy South Korean tanks, planes
Jul 22, 2022 (AFP)
"Next week, we are signing deals," Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak tweeted. The deal includes 48 FA-50 light combat fighter jets, 180 K2 "Black Panthe...
Macron hosts close ally Egypt's al-Sisi
Jul 22, 2022 (AFP)
Macron hosted the Egyptian strongman at the Elysee Palace days after hosting UAE leader Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, himself a close ally of Sisi's secul...
Morocco, Israel strengthen military links as army chief visits kingdom
Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)
Israeli army chief Aviv Kohavi, who arrived Monday, met with the Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces Belkhir El Farouk, an Israeli army statement said. ...
Kyiv urges control of arms deliveries amid smuggling concerns
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
The proposal comes after Brussels raised concern about the threat of arms being smuggled out of war-roiled Ukraine to equip crime gangs in Europe. "Parliament, ...
EU creates Moldova hub to stem arms trade from Ukraine
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the EU Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management at a meeting of EU interior ministers which...
Russia claims Ukraine arms spreading to Middle East, black market
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
Speaking in televised remarks, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Ukraine had received more than 28,000 tonnes of military cargo so far, and some of the W...
Spain govt bitterly split over upping military spend
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
As host of last week's summit of the alliance's leaders, Spain, like other members, committed to increasing its investment in defence to 2.0 percent of its gros...
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