by | Dec 23, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — Congress on Friday passed a spending bill to fund the government and avoid a shutdown as part of a deal that includes a significant cash influx for the Defense Department with a 9% budget increase over fiscal 2022 levels on top of billions in additional...
by | Dec 23, 2022 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Lithuania’s Defence Ministry has signed a deal to buy Switchblade 600 drones from the United States, becoming the first European NATO member to order the kamikaze system. “We are the first country in the world after the United States to purchase the...
by | Dec 23, 2022 | Security
MILAN, Italy — Latvian drone company Atlas Dynamics plans to open in early 2023 a research and development factory in Ukraine and later on a production plant in collaboration with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. Since the outbreak of the war in February, Atlas...
by | Dec 22, 2022 | Security
SANTIAGO, Chile — Argentina has ordered six 407 GXi helicopters from Bell Textron Canada, representatives of the country’s Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces Joint Staff announced Wednesday in Buenos Aires. The helo will replace part of Argentina’s aging fleet of...
by | Dec 22, 2022 | Security
Widely circulated videos of Russian armored vehicles being destroyed from the air have thrust forward a lesser known drone called the Bayraktar TB2. ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish company Baykar has signing a deal with Albania to sell three Bayraktar TB2 armed drones, the...
