HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to leave Portsmouth Naval Base at 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, September 5, carrying more than 800 sailors on a three-month deployment around British and northern European waters, according to UK Defence Journal. The deployment is the first extended sea period for the 65,000-tonne carrier since it took on a new [β¦]NATOβs Allied Maritime Command said this week that its ships are keeping a constant watch on Russian naval activity from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, with Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 tracking Russian vessels transiting the Mediterranean as part of that effort. The command, known as MARCOM, did not name a specific Russian ships [β¦]Civilians and infrastructure on NATOβs eastern flank faced near-daily Russian drone incidents through August, even as the CIA director made a rare visit to Moscow to warn Russia against attacking a NATO member state, according to Cristian Vlas, an Eastern Europe analyst at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). CIA Director John [β¦]A British-made counter-drone system was one of four technologies given a central role in a NATO training exercise in Latvia last month, where soldiers from multiple allied countries used it to detect and track drones over a dense pine forest. The system, called BlackTalon Ecosystem, is built by Enterprise Control Systems (ECS), part of the [β¦]President Donald Trump said Wednesday the United States has βvirtually unlimited amounts of Mid to High Grade Ammunitionβ and is manufacturing munitions βat levels never seen before,β pushing back against months of reporting that the war with Iran has strained U.S. weapons stockpiles. Trump made the claims in a Truth Social post published at 7:56 [β¦]Naval Group signed a contract in Stockholm on Monday to build four defense and intervention frigates for the Royal Swedish Navy, less than four months after Sweden announced its selection of the French-designed FDI class. The signing took place in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Mikael Granholm, [β¦]RENK Group inaugurated three new machining centers at its Rheine, Germany facility Monday, part of a plan to more than triple the companyβs annual transmission output by 2030, the company said. RENK aims to grow production at its headquarters in Augsburg to exceed 2,000 transmission units per year by 2030. The company has been transferring [β¦]Polish fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Monday, roughly 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Εeba on Polandβs coast, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense WΕadysΕaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said. βRussia has once again tested our deterrence and air defense systems,β Kosiniak-Kamysz wrote. βBefore noon, 30 km [β¦]
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