By Defence Industry Europe
Photo: NATO.
Speaking at a press conference following the signing of the third Joint Declaration on NATO-European Union cooperation the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen underlined that EU needs to ramp up the production of its defence industry and coordinate the replenishment of military equipment.
“The EU
will keep supporting the Ukrainian people and pressing against
Russia’s imperial war.We will extend
sanctions to those who militarily support Russia’s war, such as
Belarus and Iran.”— President @vonderleyen
#StandWithUkraine
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European Commission (@EU_Commission) January
10, 2023
The company is positioning the latest production standard as a fourth-generation platform capable of remaining in service beyond 2060.
The U.S. Air Force has started construction of a new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile training center at Vandenberg Space Force Base, launching the service’s largest military construction project.
The Royal Air Force has redesignated Air Command as Air & Space Command, formalising its responsibility for both operational domains across UK defence.
Wall Colmonoy Oklahoma City has won a multiyear, multimillion-dollar U.S. Air Force contract to remanufacture primary and secondary heat exchangers for the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Bombardier has agreed to acquire the assets of MHI Canada Aerospace in Mississauga, Ontario, bringing a key part of its aerostructures supply chain under direct control.
Gentex Corporation is expanding its role in NATO soldier-protection programs, supplying Ops-Core headborne systems to military personnel in more than 20 allied countries through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency.
Rolls-Royce has secured U.S. Navy certification for its mtu Series 4000 and Series 2000 engines, clearing them for use aboard autonomous naval vessels.
Swedish JAS 39 Gripen fighters will support the surveillance and protection of Finland’s territorial integrity under a deeper operational partnership between the two NATO allies.
German shipbuilder TKMS has delivered INS Drakon, Israel’s sixth submarine, completing the Dolphin AIP programme and carrying the two countries’ naval partnership into its next phase.
The Nordic Investment Bank has recast its mission to give resilience, security and defence a more prominent role in its financing across the Nordic-Baltic region.
Curtiss-Wright said on September 1 that it had received an approximately $14 million contract from Northrop Grumman to supply sensor-processing equipment for the U.S. Army’s Improved Threat Detection System.
Eighty-one years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the lineage of the 509th Composite Group remains part of America’s modern nuclear deterrence mission.
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