“The first 52-meter Saildrone Spectre will be built at Van Der Valk Shipyard in the Netherlands, and the next generation of the Saildrone Surveyor will be produced at Umoe Mandal in Norway,” Richard Jenkins, Saildrone’s founder and CEO, said.
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Multi-orbit mission capabilities are accelerating decision making across domains.
In recent months, Copenhagen has stepped up efforts to strengthen Arctic subsurface and oversea surveillance capabilities amid Russian threats and US President Donald Trump’s verbal push to acquire Greenland.
A number of factors may "lead even long-standing allies and partners to question whether or not it's wise to continue to depend on the United States for essential defense articles and services,” one analyst said.
The US will hand over charge of Joint Force Command Norfolk to the United Kingdom and relinquish leadership of Joint Force Command Naples to Italy.
“All we want from Denmark, for national and international security, [is] to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay [with] this land on which we're going to build the greatest Golden Dome ever built,” US President Donald Trump said today.
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One way for Greenland and the US to have defense cooperation is through a Compacts of Free Association agreement, writes Jeffery M. Fritz in this op-ed.
"As part of the increased presence in the Arctic and the North Atlantic, the Danish Armed Forces are deploying capacities and units in connection with exercise activities from today," said the Danish Ministry of Defense in a statement.
"I foresee no fighting, nothing like we saw in Venezuela," analyst Rasmus Søndergaard told Breaking Defense, but if there is the US would certainly prevail.
Oslo and Copenhagen have separately, and on the same day, confirmed significant additions to their naval forces, both aimed at strengthening surveillance and protection of undersea infrastructure and strategic maritime areas in the North European waters.
As part of the DoW’s acquisition transformation, streamlined processes must be extended to all companies in the defense industrial base.
The Defense Command specifically recommended that “resources for the possible implementation of Barak MX should be used on other initiatives with greater immediate combat power."
Copenhagen revealed that “as something new” the F-35 acquisition will also include Collaborative Combat Aircraft-type drones, appearing to confirm for the first time that it plans on acquiring the US-made platforms.
Moscow has also flown drones over Romania and fighter jets over Estonia, moves that European officials have widely condemned.
Troels Lund Poulsen did not disclose an exact number of aircraft planned for order but stated Copenhagen’s preference is for a deal that involves cooperation with NATO countries.