by | Jul 8, 2024 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — Air forces from around the world will descend on Australia’s remote Northern Territory this month for a combat exercise of unprecedented scale there. The Pitch Black exercise is the latest in a biennial series that began 43 years ago as a...
by | Jul 8, 2024 | Security
The most memorable part of last year’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania happened before it even began. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, upset that his country wouldn’t get a timeline for membership, scolded the alliance online. “Ukraine also deserves...
by | Jul 8, 2024 | Security
CONSTANTA, Romania — After months of delays, NATO has adopted its first counter-drone doctrine, testing its tenets in an exercise along the Black Sea shore that was marred by real-life interference wafting across the water. The focus of the Ramstein Legacy drill, held...
by | Jul 5, 2024 | Security
The Marine Corps officially has reactivated one of two light attack helicopter squadrons it shut down in 2022 as part of its overall force redesign. Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 269, under 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, stood back up at Marine Corps Air...
by | Jul 5, 2024 | Security
PARIS — Pan-European missile maker MBDA and Norway’s Kongsberg snubbed a Swiss tender for a new medium-range air-defense system, leaving the door open for Germany’s Diehl Defence as the sole potential bidder for the contract. Kongsberg and MBDA informed Swiss...
by | Jul 5, 2024 | Security
Next week, several heads of state and ministers of defense will gather in Washington, D.C., for the 2024 NATO Summit. The three-day gathering will “address the challenges facing the Alliance” and discuss how to “further strengthen NATO’s deterrence and defence” in the...
by | Jul 5, 2024 | Security
CAMDEN, Ark. — One person has died after an explosion at a defense weapons plant in Arkansas, the facility’s operators confirmed Friday. The explosion happened Wednesday at the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems’ plant in Camden, about 86 miles south of...
by | Jul 5, 2024 | Security
BERLIN — Latvia and Estonia are to receive German-made, high-performance radars as part of the Baltic countries’ effort to upgrade their air defense capabilities under the European Sky Shield Initiative. Defense electronics manufacturer Hensoldt will provide the...
by | Jul 5, 2024 | Security
MILAN — The air defense malfunctions that plagued the Danish frigate Iver Huitfeldt during its deployment to the Red Sea earlier this year have yet to be fixed, leading Danish authorities to renege their offering of having the vessel serve as the lead ship of a...
by | Jul 4, 2024 | Security
As chief executive of the European Defence Agency, former Czech Defense Minister Jiří Šedivý helps shape the European Union’s voice on defense and security issues, which had begun to grow louder even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since then,...
