Italian Air Force F-35 Lightning II landed at Ämari airbase, in Estonia, on 30 April to take over the security of Baltic airspace. This will be the first time the… Continue reading "Italian Air Force Dispatches Four F-35A Stealth Fighters to Estonia"
Saab has announced that the Estonian Defence Forces have placed an order for M4 Carl Gustaf recoilless rifles and ammunition for them. The order is valued at approximately 100 million… Continue reading "Estonian Defence Forces Place Order For More M4 Carl Gustafs"
On December 29th, three French soldiers were killed when an armored vehicle was struck by an IED. Less than a week later, two of their comrades met a similar fate,… Continue reading "French Military Facing Mounting Losses and Controversy in the Sahel"
Aided by the chaos of the Libyan civil war, Islamist groups made significant gains in northern Mali over the course of 2013. The French were quick to act and rapidly… Continue reading "France to Withdraw Troops From the Sahel Region"
The British Army’s fleet of Protected Patrol Vehicles (PPVs), acquired under Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs) for Operation Herrick in Afghanistan and Operation Telic in Iraq, are being sold off under… Continue reading "UK Decommissions Protected Patrol Vehicles"
The French Defense Innovation Agency, part of the Directorate General of Armaments, has announced the successful tender for a number of Israeli Roboteam Probot unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The Israeli… Continue reading "French Army to Purchase Roboteam Probot UGVs"
Belgium’s FN Herstal and Estonia’s Milrem Robotics deployed the THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) equipped with deFNder Medium Remote Weapon Station in exercise Spring Storm 2019. Spring Storm is Estonia’s… Continue reading "FN Herstal and Milrem Robotics Deploy Unmanned Weaponized Vehicle at Estonian Military Exercise"