As NATO races to supply Ukraine before Trump takes office, Europe is struggling to touch two percent of its GDP on defence expenditure while Russia plans to spend more than 32 percent of its national budget on its military. The post Arms sales jump as global supply struggles to meet demand while defence budgets grapple with national politics
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Romania has signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance for 32 F-35A aircraft that are expected to cost around $6.4 billion. Romania already operates the Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter and has become the 20th member of the club of F-35 operator countries. The post Romania signs on for F-35 fighters appeared first on StratPost ..read more

A total of 168 KC-46A tankers are on contract around the world with the latest order for the aircraft worth $2.38 billion. The order for the P-8A worth $1.6 billion brings the number of aircraft on contract to 207, of which 135 have been ordered by eight other countries. The post Boeing gets $4 billion order for 15 KC-46A, 07 P-8A aircraft appeared first on StratPost ..read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin "has long since switched completely to a war economy," and the country is currently producing as many weapons and ammunition in three months as the entire European Union does in a year, Pistorius said. The post German defence minister: Ukraine no longer a regional war appeared first on StratPost ..read more

F-35C fighters from the U.S. Marine Corps' VMFA 314 squadron aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln conducted multiple strikes on Houthi weapons storage facilities in Yemen. The F-35C stealth fighter model has longer, folding wings and, like the F/A-18, is designed to be launched from the catapults of aircraft carriers, allowing it to carry heavier payloads than the F-35B. The post U.S. Marine F-35C fighters in 1st combat missions appeared first on StratPost ..read more

The strategy paper that is said to be an evolving, 'living document,' includes 'detailed plans' for eventualities that range from defending Germany to deterring Russian manoeuvres on NATO's eastern flank and anticipates that Germany might have to become a 'hub for tens or hundreds of thousands of troops' that have to be transported east, besides logistics for war materiel. The post German Army secret paper preps for war with Russia – Report appeared first on StratPost ..read more

Ukraine struck Russia’s Bryansk region with U.S.-supplied ATACMS systems while President Vladimir Putin has signed into decree, his country’s revised nuclear doctrine, which has enlarged the conditions under which adversaries would be subject to nuclear deterrence. The post Ukraine fires long-range weapons inside Russia, Putin changes nuke doctrine appeared first on StratPost ..read more

Damage to submarine communication cables between new NATO members Finland and Sweden and their alliance partners Germany and Lithuania was likely sabotage, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday. "No one believes that these cables were cut by mistake," Pistorius said in Brussels at an EU defence ministers meeting to discuss the different threats facing the European Union. The post German defence minister: Damage to Baltic Sea cables likely sabotage appeared first on StratPost ..read more

Shortly before the conversation with Putin, however, Scholz also reiterated in remarks to parliament that Germany would not supply Ukraine with the long-range Taurus cruise missiles, which Ukraine has repeatedly requested. The post Germany’s Scholz speaks with Putin for first time in nearly 2 years appeared first on StratPost ..read more

The nomination of a television program co-host with credentials lighter than a feather, for the senior cabinet position of Secretary of Defense, will make it easier to side-line or remove senior military officers whom Trump has said he would fire for being ‘woke.’ The post Trump nominates TV host for Secretary of Defense appeared first on StratPost ..read more