by | Nov 19, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department cleared $700 million in a possible foreign military sale to Switzerland, along with other sales to Lithuania and Belgium, as the neutral European country works to modernize its Air Force by 2030. Switzerland now has approval to...
by | Nov 18, 2022 | Security
FORT WORTH, Texas — On a mile-long production line in Fort Worth, Texas, the next wave of the U.S. and allied militaries’ F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleets takes shape. Dozens of nascent fighters, coated almost entirely in sea-green primer, work their way north through...
by | Nov 18, 2022 | Security
HELSINKI — Finland has refuted any possibility that the currently unaligned Nordic state will consider hosting nuclear weapons on its territory once a member nation of NATO. The rebuttal comes as Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s government presented new proposals to...
by | Nov 18, 2022 | Security
JERUSALEM, Israel — Israel completed the final stage of tests to operationalize the naval “C-Dome” missile defense system for the country’s Sa’ar 6 class of corvettes. The Israeli Navy, the Israel Ministry of Defense and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems said in a joint...
by | Nov 18, 2022 | Security
LONDON — Britain will not commit to future defense spending levels until it completes a review of a strategy released last year, the government’s top finance official told lawmakers Thursday. Jeremy Hunt told parliamentarians that he and new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak...
by | Nov 17, 2022 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish authorities will not ask Ukraine to co-host the investigation of the fatal missile strike in Poland’s south-east. Warsaw believes the strike was most likely caused by Ukrainian air defense attempting to intercept a missile fired by Russia,...
by | Nov 17, 2022 | Security
Melbourne, Australia – Thailand has taken delivery of its first Textron Aviation T-6C Texan II turboprop trainers, with the Southeast Asian nation planning to use them for training and as light-armed aircraft. Two T-6Cs arrived at the Royal Thai Air Force or RTAF base...
by | Nov 17, 2022 | Security
MILAN, Italy — While defense spending is on the rise almost everywhere in Europe, national appetites for translating budget growth into increased cooperation across the bloc appear to be stagnating, according to a report by the European Defence Agency. The finding,...
by | Nov 17, 2022 | Security
A new federal watchdog report has flagged a troubling trend among U.S. military aircraft: More than two dozen fleets haven’t met their annual combat-readiness goals in at least a decade. The Government Accountability Office studied 49 types of airframes across the...
by | Nov 17, 2022 | Security
LONDON — An Anglo-Spanish industry team is the Royal Navy’s preferred bidder to build a fleet of logistics ships to support the service’s new aircraft carriers. Belfast, Northern Ireland-based shipbuilder Harland and Wolff, top British warship designer BMT and Spain’s...
