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Addressing the F-35’s operational independence from the U.S. amid tensions between Europe and the Trump administration, Secretary Gijs Tuinman made the claim to Dutch radio station BNR Nieuwsradio.  The bold claim, the veracity of which is unverifiable from an outside perspective, came as part of a wider dialogue over the operational independence of the F-35 […]

The Boeing 757 Excalibur Flight Test Aircraft began its latest series of test flights last week sporting a brand new radome grafted onto its nose, along with new fuselage fairings.  The Boeing 757-200, formerly a passenger aircraft for a number of airlines, completed its first modification phase in late 2024 and undertook a short program […]

Mission autonomy software by Collins and Shield AI was integrated on the YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 CCAs by using the government-owned A-GRA architecture. The U.S. Air Force has reached a new milestone in its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, demonstrating that government-owned Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA) can be successfully integrated with mission autonomy software. As part […]

 

Note. I'm not quite sure what's going on with the Royal Marines but from the outside looking in it appears that the whole outfit has been placed under the UK's Special Operations Command. Don't know the facts of the thing but 42 Commando is certainly part of it now. So now in addition to the big two (SAS & SBS) the Brits have added their version of the Rangers, I THINK their Airborne and parts of their Air Force Security Forces under their Special Ops banner. All that remains of conventional forces seems to be about a division or two of Armored and Mechanized Infantry.
 

The U.S. Navy’s newest supercarrier is heading back towards the Middle East having already been recalled across the Atlantic to station off Venezuela. Already in its eighth month at sea, this new assignment – which will require the third Atlantic transit of its current deployment – in the midst of heightened tensions between the U.S. […]

Speaking at a geopolitics and aerospace conference in Rome, the Commander of the Italian Air Force’s Operational Forces said the service is evaluating the possibility of operating F-35s from highway strips if conventional airfields are threatened. Italy is assessing the possibility of landing and operating its F-35A Lightning II 5th generation aircraft from selected highway […]

The landmark bill to expand the powers of Germany's BND foreign intelligence service so it can better counter "hybrid threats" is gradually taking shape at the federal Chancellery. Legal experts are hard at work implementing Chancellor Friedrich Merz's wishes.Announced in [...]

Intelligence Online can reveal that between 2023 and 2024, Saudi Arabia shipped three 155mm M777 artillery batteries, along with plenty [...]

The joint committee between Cambodia and Russia on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy held its fourth working meeting – [...]

The administrative court in Nouméa, the capital of France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on 29 December rejected an appeal [...]

Two Latin American soldiers from Ukraine's 3rd Corp Azov are relaxing at the rear of Abrams military apparel store in Kyiv's [...]

A 3 February raid in Moscow by Russia's FSB domestic intelligence agency led to the arrest of a 29-year-old man, [...]

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 148 - Draft opinion Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034
Committee on Security and Defence
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

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DRAFT OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the European Competitiveness Fund ('ECF’), including the specific programme for defence research and innovation activities, repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/522, (EU) 2021/694, (EU) 2021/697, (EU) 2021/783, and amending Regulations (EU) 2021/696, (EU) 2023/588, (EU) [EDIP]
Committee on Security and Defence
Riho Terras

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Intelligence Online has seen photographs of shipping pallets loaded with boxes of SONORA drones made by French start-up Harmattan AI, [...]

US President Donald Trump's Ukraine envoys - his son-in-law Jared Kushner and real estate developer Steve Witkoff - have slated the next round of talks on Ukraine, to be attended by Moscow and Kyiv's representatives, for 17 February in Miami. [...]

At the closing ceremony of the Creativity 2026 fair held in Riyadh on 28 January, Khalid bin Salman al-Saud, the [...]