A Dutch shipbuilder has landed the job of designing where submarine crews will sleep, eat and live during long stretches under the sea. Royal IHC and France’s Naval Group signed a contract Sept. 15, 2026, covering the living quarters on board the Royal Netherlands Navy’s new Orka-class submarines. It sounds like a modest piece of […]

The Netherlands and Sweden signed a letter of intent for the Dutch government to buy a Saab GlobalEye surveillance aircraft, the Dutch Ministry of Defence announced September 10. The Netherlands does not currently operate an aircraft capable of this kind of long-range surveillance and instead relies partly on NATO’s aging AWACS fleet. The Dutch aircraft […]