by | Dec 4, 2023 | Security
MILAN — The Latvian government has inked a contract worth roughly €600 million ($650 milliion) with Germany’s Diehl Defence for the company’s IRIS-T medium-range air defense system, the manufacturer announced on Monday. The deal, signed on Nov. 30, is the Baltic...
by | Dec 4, 2023 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s outgoing National Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has signed what is likely the last major weapon acquisition contract inked before the nation’s forthcoming change in government, ordering some 152 self-propelled howitzers from South...
by | Dec 4, 2023 | Security
“Every time I pass a bulldozer, I want to stop and kiss it,” said Adm. William Halsey, the commander of the South Pacific in 1945. He had lived the adage that logistics wins wars, overcoming the four tyrannies of distance, water, time, and scale, on the way to...
by | Dec 4, 2023 | Security
PARIS, ROME and COLOGNE, Germany — War is officially on Germany’s agenda. The prevention of it, that is, and the country’s defense during one, if it ever came to be. But in a nation haunted by the militaristic ghosts of its past, the recent demand by Defence Minister...
by | Dec 1, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — Israel’s new order of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles from Oshkosh Defense will keep the company’s production line open into 2025, longer than originally planned. Wisconsin-based Oshkosh said earlier this year it was preparing to close its JLTV production...
by | Dec 1, 2023 | Security
MILAN — NATO countries wrapped up one their signature cybersecurity exercises in Estonia this week, welcoming South Korea and Japan to the proceedings as alliance officials seek like-minded governments to harden their collective virtual defenses. The Cyber Coalition...
by | Dec 1, 2023 | Security
COLOGNE, Germany — Officials at NATO’s new technology incubator have selected 44 companies’ proposals for an inaugural round of seed funding meant to grow the alliance’s technology base in undersea sensing, energy resilience and secure information sharing. The...
by | Nov 30, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the Indo-Pacific as it interlinks soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and their disparate databases in a multibillion-dollar effort known as Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control....
by | Nov 30, 2023 | Security
Milan, Italy – NATO is set to update its artificial intelligence strategy to include generative AI amid an increase in cyber attacks on critical infrastructure and interference with government agencies. The standard, described by the organization as a sort of quality...
by | Nov 30, 2023 | Security
MILAN — The European Union’s sluggish progress in drastically increasing ammunition supplies to Ukraine has Baltic nation Estonia nervous about some member nations’ internal politics getting in the way, according to a senior Estonian defense official. “On our part, we...
