When Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, then 24 year-old Dmytro Zhluktenko decided to quit his programming job in order to volunteer to supply… Continue reading "Interview: Dzyga’s Helping Paw"
An Indian Navy submarine docked in Indonesia from 22-24 February for the first time ever. The submarine arrived in Jakarta after transiting through the Sunda Strait. Meanwhile, India reaffirmed cooperation… Continue reading "Indian Submarine Conducts First Ever Port Call In Indonesia"
On Monday, February 13, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced that Denmark had transferred all of its Caesar self-propelled artillery to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “Denmark has given Ukraine all of… Continue reading "Denmark Transfers All Of Its CAESAR Self-Propelled Howitzers To Ukraine"
During this year’s session of the Bial Clinical Medicine Award ceremony at the University of Porto Medical Faculty, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced that Lisbon is ready to… Continue reading "Portugal To Provide Three Leopard 2 Tanks To Ukraine In March"
The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) organized “Winter Exercise-2023”, the most widely attended winter exercise in the Republic’s history, which was conducted by the 14th Mechanized Infantry Brigade Command under the… Continue reading "“Winter Exercise-2023” Hosted By Turkey Has Been Successfully Completed"
The CEO of Rheinmetall, Armin Papperger, discussed his intentions to sign a deal with Lockheed Martin to produce the company’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System in Germany. The war in… Continue reading "Rheinmetall Seeks to License Produce HIMARS"
After months of debate and mounting international pressure, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to allow the transfer of German manufactured Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. End user… Continue reading "BREAKING: German Green-lights Transfer of Leopard 2s To Ukraine"
France’s Defense Innovation Agency announced its plan to explore the development of a new type of anti-drone sensor based on optometrics, as opposed to the more traditional electromagnetics. The companies… Continue reading "French Armed Forces to Explore an “Innovative” Anti-drone Sensor"
The Russian arms industry is extremely important to Russia as it underpins both Russia’s hard power capabilities and makes up a significant part of the Federation’s economy. According to one… Continue reading "The Future of Russian Arms Exports"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s first Weekend Briefing of the year. This is where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. In this weekend’s issue, we cover Japan’s… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (2-6 January)"