by | Nov 11, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — It was around 6 a.m. EST when Mart Noorma popped into view on Microsoft Teams. It was still dark and relatively quiet on the U.S. East Coast as he prepared for this interview. But in Estonia, at the NATO-accredited Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of...
by | Nov 10, 2022 | Security
ROME — Italy plans to send air defense weapons to Ukraine, possibly including the SAMP/T system, Italian media reports have suggested, despite doubts over training and supplies. Rome is gearing up for its sixth dispatch of arms to Ukraine since Russia invaded the...
by | Nov 10, 2022 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — China has unveiled air-launched versions of its ship-based hypersonic missile and a standoff cruise missile at the Zhuhai Airshow, going on this week in the southern Guangdong province near Taiwan. A pair of air-launched hypersonic missiles...
by | Nov 10, 2022 | Security
ÄMARI AIR BASE, Estonia — On a crisp October morning, nearly 30 miles from Tallinn Bay, two German Eurofighter Typhoon fighters taxied down the runway here, as an A400M transport aircraft carrying the nation’s top Air Force and Navy officers touched down after a dawn...
by | Nov 9, 2022 | Security
VICTORIA, British Columbia — The Canadian military has ordered 39 additional light-armored vehicles from General Dynamics for $165 million as it aims to replace equipment it donated to Ukraine earlier this year, according to a spokesman with the National Defence...
by | Nov 9, 2022 | Security
MILAN, Italy — Saildrone, a U.S. manufacturer of small and medium unmanned surface vessels (USVs), expects an increase in the number of seabed reconnaissance missions its platforms will carry out in 2023 across the Atlantic, Pacific and the Middle East, said CEO...
by | Nov 9, 2022 | Security
PARIS — On the first day of the biennial Euronaval trade conference here last month, France’s new defense minister Sebastien Lecornu made sure to meet with Greece’s vice defense minister, Nikolaus Hardalias, at the Hellenic pavilion. There was a reason for the special...
by | Nov 9, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — British and Estonian officials have inked a road map for beefing up their military ties that will boost the remaining U.K. contingent in the Baltic nation with short-range air defense weapons and multiple-launch rocket systems, the two governments...
by | Nov 8, 2022 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — France foresees its future military force as heavily relying on systems of systems, whose networks are interconnected across the battlefield. From the Army’s Scorpion modernization program for new ground vehicles and communications systems to the...
by | Nov 8, 2022 | Security
MERSIN, Turkey — Turkish missile-maker Roketsan signed a contract with Indonesia this month to supply Khan missiles and a multilayer air defense system for the Asian nation’s military. This is the first time the Khan missile system, an export version of the...
