Three countries have taken a real step toward keeping their new stealth fighters flying without shipping them back to Texas every time something breaks, and the Pentagon just handed Lockheed Martin $23 million to make it happen. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Fort Worth, Texas defense giant that builds […]

Finland has placed its third order in less than a year for radios that can keep soldiers talking across hundreds of miles without satellites, cell towers, or GPS, a technology bet that keeps paying off as tensions with Russia push Nordic militaries to rebuild communications systems that can survive jamming and outages. The Finnish Defence […]

A Finnish factory floor in the small town of Jämsä, roughly 220 kilometers (137 miles) north of Helsinki, has started building parts for the most advanced fighter jet in NATO’s arsenal, and the milestone puts Finland in a club that includes almost no other country outside the United States. Patria, the Finnish state-controlled defense manufacturer, […]

Finland, Norway, and Latvia signed a Statement of Intent at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Türkiye, on July 7, committing the three nations to jointly develop and potentially jointly buy a new Finnish-designed armored vehicle built specifically to move troops across terrain that stops most tracked vehicles cold, from deep Arctic snow to open bogs […]