by | Jul 13, 2023 | Security
VICTORIA, British Columbia — The battle over Canada’s proposed purchase of Boeing P-8 Poseidon aircraft is heating up, as the premiers of the country’s two largest provinces called for an open competition that would allow Canadian vendors to bid. Quebec Premier...
by | Jul 12, 2023 | Security
ROME — A plan by the European Union to spend €500 million ($555 million) on beefing up the bloc’s ammunition factories to help Ukraine risks draining much needed funds from long-term weapons development programs, a senior industrial official has said. The EU deal to...
by | Jul 12, 2023 | Security
Valery Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, recently made another impassioned plea for F-16s, arguing that Western countries would not themselves launch a counteroffensive without air superiority. Yet, Kyiv is trying to do just that while...
by | Jul 11, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON and COLOGNE, Germany — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday defended the alliance’s stance on an eventual membership for Ukraine, just as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lamented the lack of a specific timeline. “We all agree that the...
by | Jul 11, 2023 | Security
MILAN — Israel’s Elbit Systems has won a $114 million contract to provide two long-range patrol aircraft to an undisclosed Asian-Pacific customer, who many observers believe could be the Philippine air force, which has long searched for such platforms. The desire to...
by | Jul 11, 2023 | Security
This story has been updated as of 1145am EDT. VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders agreed Tuesday to allow Ukraine to join “when allies agree and conditions are met,” the head of the military alliance said, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskky blasted the...
by | Jul 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
This story has been updated as of 1145am EDT. VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — NATO leaders agreed Tuesday to allow Ukraine to join “when allies agree and conditions are met,” the head of the military alliance said, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskky blasted the...
by | Jul 11, 2023 | Security
NATO’s leaders will gather next week for a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. While the war in Ukraine will dominate their agenda, another crucial task for NATO leaders will be to transform European defense: no small feat. European defense is vital to NATO. A strong...
by | Jul 11, 2023 | Security
WATERVLIET, N.Y. — On a spring day here at Watervliet Arsenal, workers tapped commands into computers and peered into futuristic pods to watch a robotic arm carve small metal cannon parts. They sat just steps away from dozens of World War II-era, rusted machining...
by | Jul 10, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON ― The White House on Monday told lawmakers it opposes a provision in the House’s annual defense policy bill that would create a special inspector general for Ukraine aid, modelled after the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The...
