The U.S. Navy’s Project Overmatch, which focuses on enhancing its warfare communication network, will integrate personnel from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance into its team. The initiative follows the Navy’s recent signing of a formal project arrangement with representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command...
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Lockheed Martin Australia Secures Contract Extension for Hobart Fleet Combat Systems
Lockheed Martin announced that its Australian unit has secured a one-year contract extension for sustainment support to the Aegis Combat System in the Royal Australian Navy’s Hobart-class guided missile destroyers. The contract’s sustainment services up to the end of 2025 call for the company’s Sydney-based Aegis team to develop and coordinate the combat systems’ design...
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Opinion: US-European Allies’ Partnership Key to Defense Industry Revitalization
The United States and its European allies need to collaborate and share risks to revitalize their defense industrial sectors at a pace that can match the rising global threats, two executives wrote in an opinion piece on the New Atlanticist blog on Monday. James Hursch, a nonresident senior fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of...
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Saab to Boost Combat Weapons Output as New Facilities Come Onstream, CEO Says
Saab President and CEO Micael Johannson said Saab is on track to meet its annual production target of 400,000 units for all its ground combat weapons starting in 2025. He told Breaking Defense on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference that his company holds “a huge backlog” and its output is expected to increase...
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Denmark Creates Fund to Boost Defense Spending by $7B
Denmark‘s Ministry of Defence has announced the establishment of an Acceleration Fund to increase military spending by $7 billion in 2025 and 2026. The initiative has the support of the Danish government and parties regulating Copenhagen’s defense budget. The ministry said that with this funding, Denmark’s defense budget is expected to exceed 3 percent of...
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New UK-Norway Defense Pact Is Shaping Up
U.K. Defence Secretary John Healey said the U.K. and Norwegian governments are looking to forge a new defense agreement to strengthen security in the European region. The announcement was made during Healey’s visit to Norway, where he conferred with Norwegian Defence Minister Tore Sandvik in the High North near the Russian border. The British defense...
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Australia Wraps Up LAND 121 Military Logistics Vehicle Procurement as Rheinmetall Completes HX Truck Delivery
Rheinmetall‘s Australian military vehicles unit has delivered 3,580 medium and heavy military logistics vehicles, marking the conclusion of the LAND 121 Phase 3B/5B procurement for the Australian Department of Defence. Michael Wittlinger, Rheinmetall chief of staff and supervisory board chairman of Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Australia, emphasized that the HX truck-based vehicles delivered serve as...
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Saab Gripen Donation Takes Back Seat to F-16 Deployment in Ukraine
NATO’s air force capability coalition has advised Sweden to postpone sending Saab’s JAS 39 Gripen multirole fighter jets to Ukraine until after the deployment of F-16s in the country is implemented, a defense ministry official told Breaking Defense on Wednesday. The alliance requested the delay to avoid overloading Ukrainian pilots with different aircraft types, which...
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Hensoldt to Enhance Eurofighter Radar Under $365M Contract Extension
Germany’s Hensoldt Sensors is further enhancing the capabilities of the Eurofighter Common Radar System Mark 1 under a contract extension worth about $365 million from Airbus Defence and Space. Called ECRS Mk1 for short, the system will be installed on the Eurofighter aircraft that Airbus is building for the German and Spanish air forces. Hensoldt...
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GE, Global Aerospace Logistics Partner on UAE Skills Development
GE Aerospace has partnered with Abu Dhabi-based Global Aerospace Logistics in the Next50 program to train aerospace talent in the United Arab Emirates. The initiative will target to train 50 young UAE nationals annually. GE Aerospace said the program participants will be able to develop their capabilities at the GE Aerospace Customer Technical Education Center...