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Sweden boosts 2025 defence budget to 2.4% of GDP
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
The increase will mean that Sweden's defence budget in 2025 would amount 138 billion kronor, or 2.4 percent of GDP, the government said, above the 2 percent of ...
BAE Systems unveils new autonomous ground vehicle for combat operations
Sep 15, 2024 (SPX)
The Autonomous Tactical Light Armour System (ATLASTM) Collaborative Combat Variant (CCV), a modular and cost-effective 8x8 UGV, was developed by leveraging BAE ...
Ukraine can produce more weapons but needs funding: officials
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
Kyiv has relied on Soviet-era stocks and Western deliveries for much of its defence against Russia's invasion, while developing its own weapons production. "At ...
Sweden to double spending on civil defence
Sep 12, 2024 (AFP)
Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the government was adding another two billion kronor ($192 million) to this year's civil defence budget which it h...
US, UK top diplomats head to Ukraine with eye on weapons
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
In a rare joint trip, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was taking the train to Kyiv with Foreign Secretary David Lammy, whose two-month-old Labour governmen...
Zelensky pushes for promised weapons as Russia advances
Sep 06, 2024 (AFP)
He pressed his nation's case to allies meeting at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where Washington unveiled a new $250 million in military aid for Ukraine,...
Britain suspends some arms exports with Israel
Sep 03, 2024 (UPI)
Israel has been fighting Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza since the Iran proxy militia launched a brutal and deadly attack on the Middle Eastern country...
Poland reveals new defence deals worth $520 million
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
The Central European country has ramped up its military spending since Russia invaded Polish ally Ukraine in 2022. Poland shares a border with both nations. "Th...
Hezbollah video appears to show its tunnels, missiles
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
The release comes as negotiators seeking a Gaza ceasefire were to meet for a second day in Qatar, and amid intensified diplomatic activity in Lebanon seeking to...
Czech army to receive German tanks in Ukraine aid compensation
Jul 31, 2024 (AFP)
The Czech government, a staunch supporter of Ukraine as it struggles to stave off the Russian invasion, has given at least 62 of its tanks to Kyiv since the war...
What we know about Hezbollah's weapons arsenal
Jul 29, 2024 (AFP)
Hezbollah has traded near-daily cross-border fire with Israel in support of Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack on southern Israel tri...
US announces $1.7 bn in new security assistance for Ukraine
Jul 29, 2024 (AFP)
The aid includes $200 million in equipment that will be drawn from existing US military stocks and will reach the battlefield quickly, as well as about $1.5 bil...
GAO finds another $2B in military aid for Ukraine
Jul 26, 2024 (UPI)
At more than $53 billion in military assistance, the United States is by far Ukraine's largest backer in its two-year war against Russia. Last year, the Pentago...
Netherlands, Denmark prepare to ship 14 Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine
Jul 25, 2024 (UPI)
Netherlands Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said in a news release that 12 of the late 1980s-era tanks purchased by the two countries were back from undergoin...
OKSI Secures $6M in Contracts for Advanced Precision Guidance Seeker
Jul 24, 2024 (SPX)
OKSI's ARMGDN provides the Department of Defense with an affordable precision-guided munition aimed at countering small drones and other unmanned systems. The l...
UK launches armed forces review after NATO summit
Jul 16, 2024 (AFP)
The assessment, ordered by Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer less than a week after he returned from a NATO summit, will set out a path to increasing defence s...
Lithuania moves to quit convention on cluster munitions
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
The bill, which was passed in first reading, would end Lithuania's participation in the Oslo convention prohibiting the use, transfer, production and storage of...
Will NATO disappoint Ukraine again in Washington?
Jul 08, 2024 (AFP)
But they will not give Zelensky what he wants most: a firm invite for his war-torn country to join their nuclear-armed alliance anytime soon. Last year, NATO's ...
New UK defence minister pledges fresh Ukraine support in Odesa trip
Jul 07, 2024 (AFP)
John Healey, appointed defence minister Friday by new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, was visiting the port city, a frequent target of Russian missile and ...
Czechs have sent $288 mn in Ukraine military aid since invasion
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
The Czech Republic, an EU and NATO member of 10.9 million people, was one of the first arms donors to the war-ravaged country, said Defence Minister Jana Cernoc...
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