Last week NATO released its official statistics for alliance member defense spending covering the period up to 2025, which made for interesting reading.
The U.S. Air Force is to send pilots for advanced flight training to the Italian Air Force and Leonardo-run International Flight Training School in Sardinia.
NATO anticipates that all of its 32 members will meet its longstanding target to spend 2% of GDP on defense, though only three meet the revised 3.5% target figure.
Signs of activity on the arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya point to a resumption of flight tests on Russia’s 9M370 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile.
Two aspiring Canadian space companies have set a schedule for a first orbital launch attempt in the third quarter of 2028 from a spaceport in Nova Scotia.
NATO military commanders and politicians see more potential in the use of drones, but this shouldn't come at the expense of “legacy” systems, a think tank says.
Europe's hope of reaching NATO's higher level of defense spending rests disproportionately with France and Germany, but a key potential obstacle is politics.
German defense supplier Hensoldt is starting to develop a new phase of capacity expansion to ensure it can deliver on an anticipated order wave from 2027 on.
The German Bundestag has begun the debate on higher defense spending that would also see a significant uptick in the procurement budget for the current year.
