Portugal

Eurofighter eyes sales of 200 additional aircraft

Potential new deals include second batch orders for Turkey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, jointly amounting to 78 units, while closing an order from Austria would add a further 36 aircraft.

Leonardo, Fincanteri revamp joint venture, aiming to trim frigate build time by 18 months

Fincantieri CEO Pierroberto Folgiero said his company's joint venture with Leonardo, the Orrizonte Sistemi Navali, now aims to cut down frigate production time by 18 months.

Greece inks deal for KC-390 fleet

The purchase, arranged via a government-to-government agreement between Greece and Portugal, covers three KC-390 aircraft with options for up to six manufactured by Brazilian planemaker Embraer.

Portugal to purchase three frigates from Italy’s Fincantieri: Meloni

The Italian prime minister said the deal is a "recognition of Italian defense industry but also of how Europe can reinforce its autonomy by investing in its own technological capacity and companies."

Embraer sells new C-390 to Portugal, adds new aeromedical evacuation unit for the Netherlands

Portugal also added 10 options for future buys, while the Dutch hold options on seven further aeromedical modules.

Portugal opens talks with Leonardo over AW101 helicopter midlife upgrade

“The Danish are looking to [the] possibility” of an upgrade. "Canadians are all in [on] that process already … So the idea is to have a similar approach … in order to bring value to the [Portuguese] Air Force," Maj. Gen. Joao Nogueira, director of weapon systems maintenance directorate at the Portuguese Air Force told Breaking Defense.

F-35, other ‘options’ on table during Portugal’s F-16 replacement analysis: Air Force General

“There's pros and cons that we need to put inside our analysis, and, of course, put to politicians all the information they need…in order to take those decisions, that are not easy," said Maj. Gen. Joao Nogueira, director of weapon systems maintenance directorate, at the Portuguese Air Force

No, there’s no ‘kill switch’: Pentagon tries to reassure international F-35 partners

The clarification comes after two American allies said they were publicly reevaluating their future fighter needs amid tensions with Washington.

Portugal seals order for 12 A-29N Super Tucano aircraft

Embraer has been marketing a NATO-specific version of the A-29, a light- attack prop plane, for several years, but Portugal marks the first customer to sign on.

Netherlands says first Embraer C-390 delivery from joint buy with Austria is delayed to 2027

Dutch State Secretary of Defence Christophe Van der Maat said that an original 2026 delivery timeline “turned out not to be feasible due to cooperation with Austria and negotiations with the manufacturer.”

Portugal’s air force chief has a ‘vision’ for the F-35, but for now it’s just that

“This is a vision for the future, so there is currently no process of acquiring aircraft to replace the F-16s,” a spokesperson from the office of Portugal’s defense minister Helena Carreiras, told Breaking Defense.

Go East, Young Man: US Closes Bases In Western Europe, Builds Up In East

PENTAGON: The Pentagon giveth, and the Pentagon taketh away. While the Defense Department is shrinking or shuttering roughly 30 facilities across Europe, the real story isn’t a downsizing: It’s a shift. Even as the US consolidates facilities in Western Europe — some of which date to World War II — it’s building up infrastructure in Eastern Europe to contain the […]

Russia Digests Eastern Ukraine, Probes NATO Airspace: Breedlove, Greenert

[UPDATED Nov. 4 with Adm. Greenert’s comments] WASHINGTON: While Russian combat aircraft grab the headlines by buzzing NATO airspace as far west as Portugal, Russian supply trucks are quietly redrawing the map back in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin swallowed the Crimea whole in a single gulp, but it looks like he’s digesting eastern Ukraine by a kind […]