Terms of the acquisition include the shipbuilder paying a fixed fee of €300 million ($323 million), and “based on certain growth assumptions,” an additional €115 ($124 million) directly relating to performance of the underwater armaments business this year.
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A look at some of what this year’s SOF Week conference in Tampa had to offer.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius encouraged allies, including the US, to “arrive” at military expenditure of 3 percent GDP – though declined to put forward a timeline for such change to occur.
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Despite optimistic talk from top diplomats in both the US and Saudi Arabia, regional experts don’t see any movement in the near term, due both to Riyadh’s demands and the Gaza conflict.
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Gen. Angus Campbell also defended the conduct of the Australian military after a recent run-in with Chinese helicopters.
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“We already expanded production ahead of Replicator, and irrespective of Replicator, because we know where this is going,” AeroVironment CEO Wahid Nawabi told Breaking Defense.
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The head of the Estonian Scouts, among the first who would be called to fend off an invasion, said the “biggest part that’s going to change” is how the unit fights with and against drones.
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“We think we can substantially improve over what Boeing offered us. I would say we will not meet in the middle,” said Air Force acquisition czar Andrew Hunter.
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In addition to training, the Army’s $3.5B program called Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring an enterprise approach to the sustainment and maintenance of training systems.
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NATO has established eight different capability coalitions designed to get critical systems or ammo into Ukrainian hands quickly. Here’s a deep dive into how they’re all faring.
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Though Estonia’s chief of defense told Breaking Defense the idea has fallen by the wayside, a key lawmaker in Tallinn said it’s time to consider a “coalition of the willing” to go into Ukraine.
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“In the end, what we’re really going to have to figure out here is: what needs to change? Is it policies? Is it authorities? Is it processes? Is it funding? Is it purely just advocacy and communication?” said National Space Council Director Chirag Parikh.
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Jon Tester, the Montana Democrat who chairs the subcommittee, and Susan Collins, the ranking Republican from Maine, stated that they are in lockstep that the military needs more money, despite a budget cap imposed by the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
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The command carried out steps like hydrostatic and wind tunnel tests, but are now “kind of hitting a pause” on implementing a water landing capability due to budget concerns.
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