Finnish naval officer talks NATO expectations, Russia’s conduct at sea and Ukraine conflict’s future
Commodore Jukka Anteroinen, the chief of staff of the Finnish Navy, talked with Breaking Defense at this week’s Sea Air Space symposium outside Washington.
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The French military recently narrowed a field of 19 competitors to two in a race for hundreds of small, deadly UAVs.
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While a Turkish industry official claimed the country didn’t “need” the Russian systems, experts say a replacement has a little ways to go to catch other operational domestic variants.
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A defense attaché to Kyiv told Breaking Defense that anytime the A-50 was aloft it was accompanied by two or more MiG-31Ks and that there was no telling when or if these aircraft might launch on demand.
By Reuben Johnson
Kyiv’s call for 350,000 artillery shells a month shows demand has effectively doubled since a Ukrainian official said in June that its armed forces were expending between 5,000 to 6,000 artillery rounds a day.
By Tim Martin
Despite the concerning finding, between 2021 and 2022, defense spending across the alliance increased by 2.2 percent in real terms, surpassing an estimated $1 trillion.
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The new document, the first update since 1997, says Russia’s failure to establish competent logistics have been a “major factor” to why it has failed to achieve its objectives in Ukraine.
By Justin Katz
“This is probably my biggest worry, both there [the Black Sea region] and the Pacific, is that an aggressive Russia or China pilot or vessel captain or something gets too close — doesn’t realize where they are, causes a collision and it’s two in the morning and we are trying to unpack this as fast as we can,” said the head of the Marines.
By Aaron Mehta
UK armed forces minister James Heappey told lawmakers the UK was investigating giving Typhoons to countries that give MiGs to Ukraine, but experts said it’s unclear how the MiGs could change the war and if any other countries would really want the Typhoons in the first place.
By Tim Martin
“There are no big plot twists in this budget where we’re going off in some new directions of new initiatives that you never heard of from us before,” a senior defense official.
By Ashley Roque
In the meantime, the service is embarking on a plan to refurbish 1,200 legacy Stinger missiles.
By Ashley Roque
Under pressure from local industry and international allies, the Swiss government is considering measures to relax its rules on the re-export of arms.
By Christina Mackenzie
The company is using private capital to build its hunter satellite, called Jackal, to shadow adversary satellites seeking to evade US tracking.
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“For the first time in the recent past US and allied policymakers and industry appear truly aligned on the need to look beyond established domestic supply chains to cross-border sourcing and collaboration,” writes Aleksandar Jovovic of Oliver Wyman.
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