Tim Martin is Breaking Defense's European Bureau Chief, leading regional coverage of the NATO nations and European industry. He joined Breaking Defense in 2022 after a three year spell at Shephard Media as Air Editor. Based in Belfast, Tim holds two Defence Media Awards to his name, and has bylines with a number of B2B and print media publications, including the Irish Times newspaper.
Construction and delivery of the warship was carried out by the now defunct Aircraft Carrier Alliance comprising of BAE Systems, Babcock and Thales, complicating the liability assessment but also potentially leaving the MoD to shoulder costs of the repair bill.
Berlin’s new arms package for Ukraine, Germany’s largest to date and valued at €2.7 billion ($2.95 billion), covers 200 reconnaissance drones, 30 Leopard 1 A5 tanks, 20 Marder armored personnel carriers, over 100 combat vehicles, 18 self-propelled Howitzers and four IRIS-T SLM medium range air defense systems.
In one case where two Kh-101 missiles were recovered and examined after striking Kyiv in November 2022, CAR researchers were able to determine that one of the munitions was produced in the last quarter of 2022, most likely October.
The risks at hand cover qualification of new capabilities, operational reliability, meeting cost reduction targets and securing “overall volume” as defined in a revised baseline contract, according to Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO.
The new contracts between the two sides build on a series of land based orders signed together since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including “several thousand” Next generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW) systems and Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifles.
Manufactured by Poland’s state owned PGZ, the PILICA+ triple layer air defense system will be integrated with MBDA’s CAMM short-range radar-guided missiles, a Polish-made autocannon and very-short range infrared guided missiles, according to MBDA.
The pact was inked in Brussels on Wednesday by William LaPlante, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and Jiři Šedivý, EDA chief executive.
Field Aerospace, L3Harris Technologies, Sierra Nevada Corporation and ST Airborne Systems have all successfully moved to the new Intermediate RFQ phase.
From Gripen fighters to MANPADS, the Swedish firm sees “this [period] as just the beginning of defense spending increases in Europe,” said CEO and President Micael Johansson.
“While the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 certainly affected military spending decisions in 2022, concerns about Russian aggression have been building for much longer,” said Lorenzo Scarazzato, researcher with SIPRI’s Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme.
Once operational, the new sensor will be hosted on a UK military base on the Mediterranean island, capable of resident space object (RSO) tracking and “potentially characterisation or neighbourhood watch functions for the GEO orbital regime,” according to a Request for Information (RFI) solicitation.
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