Macron aims to make France lead in European initiative so Europe can organise its tools to guarantee its security through a credible European defence, highly interoperable with NATO.
NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) was created in 2014 at the core of a strengthened NATO Response Force, following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and crises in the Middle East.
The German government is examining whether it can provide even greater support to the Ukrainian armed forces in their defence against Russian air attacks.
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The Czech army received the first of 15 tanks to be sent from Germany, which will replace those sent to Ukraine to boost its defence capabilities.
JFD has announced that it has won the prestigious ‘Third In-Service Support’ (3ISS) contract, worth £63 million, continuing seven years of safety critical operational assurance services to the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS).
The Latvian Air Force took delivery of two UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters at Lielvārde Air Force Base earlier in December.
The civil budget is set at €370.8 million, and the military budget is set at €1.96 billion, representing a 27.8% and 25.8% increase, respectively, over 2022.
In a demonstration of Joint Air Power capability, Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets conducted Air Integration training with Rafale fighter jets alongside the Charles de Gaulle Carrier Strike Group on December 16.
NATO has once again joined forces in the region to conduct a combined training event simulating an attack of air forces against NATO airspace and an airfield in particular.
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO has stepped up again, including with eight multinational battlegroups from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea – one each in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
The unprecedented level of NATO-EU cooperation in recent years further accelerated in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this year.
The NSPA has recently completed the firing test campaign for the MLRS, as part of the upgrade to the European fire control system.
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