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NATO members aren’t regularly buying weapons together, limiting how quickly and cheaply they can build up stockpiles, a senior alliance official said.Tarja Jaakola, NATO’s assistant secretary general for defense industry, innovation, and armaments, said that allies can acquire weaponry most cost-effectively by jointly purchasing it.Having multiple countries trying to independently develop…
The US and its NATO allies are boosting their ability to detect, track, and target drone threats along the alliance’s eastern edge, its border with Russia.Through rapid 90-day testing cycles designed to replicate real situations, US forces, Baltic allies, and defense companies are building a shared data network for faster…
US Navy destroyers operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea have been launching SM-3s — among America’s most high-end interceptors — to defend NATO airspace against incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. Loading audio narration… On Friday, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Oscar Austin fired at least one SM-3, or Standard Missile-3, interceptor…
Russian forces pulled from the Arctic to fight in Ukraine have suffered heavy losses on the battlefield, but NATO expects them to eventually rebuild, emerging as a “dangerous” challenge, a top Norwegian military official told Business Insider.Vice Adm. Rune Andersen, chief of the Norwegian Joint Headquarters, said there is no…
Russia’s air defenses may pose a more significant threat to NATO air forces than they would have before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a top air defense analyst warned in a recent report.Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has been able to destroy numerous Russian air defense…
