The Swedish government said today it will commit $275 million and that the wider Nordic pledge is in line with President Donald Trump’s decision last month to supply Kiev with “defence material, in the form of several support packages.”
Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom are all countries Northrop is pitching, or plans to pitch, on its Integrated Battle Command System.
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
Despite not sharing a contract value of the order, Copenhagen noted that aircraft deliveries are scheduled to take place between 2028 and 2029.
"I think [President Donald] Trump is on the right path here. I think he has promised that would be a possibility, we are talking in these hours about 10 Patriot systems," said Denmark’s Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen.
Denmark and Sweden's participation in the the Multinational MRTT Fleet comes a month after the two nations, alongside their Nordic counterparts of Finland and Norway, signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to join.
“It's more challenging to defend than to attack,” when it comes to air defense, Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson told Breaking Defense.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
Financing of the new rearmament plan will depend on “political and budgetary choices” with a war finance meeting, led by Lecornu and Eric Lombard, France’s economy minister, scheduled to take place on March 20.
European powers are still struggling to come to terms with the reality of urgently having to do more to protect the continent without relying on the US for renewed support.
Robbin Laird spoke to Torben Mikkelsen, former head of the Danish navy, about how NATO's Baltic Sentry effort could protect the Baltic Sea from Russian threats.
The renewed effort to beef up Arctic capabilities follows a flurry of comments from US President Donald Trump threatening to buy Greenland and increase tariffs on Danish goods.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
Stockholm noted that the CV90 has proven “highly valued” in Ukraine, highlighting the platform’s “high level” of protection and frontline success, including saving “soldiers’ lives in direct hits.”
China has denied that Yi Peng 3 intentionally damaged seabed cables in the Baltic Sea, as investigations are ongoing.
"We’re aiming for cross-development, cross-buying and cross-use basically, because we need to align and ease up the supply chains and be able to sustain the vehicles," Maj. Gen. Jonny Lindfors, Commander of the Swedish Army, told Breaking Defense.
Denmark was also approved to potentially receive thousands of GPS guidance kits for 155mm shells.