Tag: Arms export
Poland supplies fighter jets to Ukraine
Fighter jet MIG 29 The Poles surrender four of these planes. Above all, the Ukraine hopes for the more modern F 16. (Photo: imago/StockTrek Images) Vienna Poland is the first…
Rheinmetall hopes for orders worth billions from special funds
Dusseldorf A few days before it was included in the leading German index Dax, the armaments group and automotive supplier Rheinmetall presented record annual figures for 2022 and the forecast…
Ukraine: Zelensky fires three regional governors
Volodymyr Zelensky The President fires three territorial governors. (Photo: dpa) Kyiv/ Moscow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy assumes that Russia has little left to do in its war against Ukraine. Arms…
What else can Moscow come up with? The Great Mystery of Russia’s Munitions Inventory
Burned out Russian ammunition depot Russia is apparently looking for new suppliers of war ammunition. (Photo: AP) Berlin Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is furious. For weeks…
US forges naval alliance against China
Washington The USA, Great Britain and Australia want to equip the continent with nuclear-powered submarines. After a meeting with the heads of government of the other two countries involved in…
US forges naval alliance against China
US Navy submarine USS Missouri The three countries plan to discuss their pact on Monday on board this Virginia-class submarine. (Photo: AP) Washington If implemented as planned, the submarine deal…
Russia is increasing its operations in Ukraine – but the air war has failed
Ukraine’s emergency services workers load the remains of an S-300 missile S-300 missiles are used in large numbers in areas close to the border, thus increasing the range of classic…
Macron sees his country in the “war economy”
French fighter jet Rafale The order books of the armaments companies in France are full. (Photo: AFP) Paris, Cholet Cholet is located in the Loire estuary, idyllically surrounded by pastures…
Mediated by China – oil states Saudi Arabia and Iran are getting closer
China’s ruler Xi Jinping (left), King Salman In December last year, the heads of state of China and Saudi Arabia intensified their cooperation, and now Beijing has acted as a…
Iran and Saudi Arabia want to normalize relations
Protests outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Iran in 2016 Riyadh cut official ties with Tehran in January 2016 in response to an attack by Iranian protesters on the Saudi…
From the end of the Ukraine war
The author Jürgen Trittin is foreign policy spokesman for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag. For a long time, the Munich Security Conference was a place of…
“It has to be produced before it can be delivered”
Ukrainian soldiers fire a French Caesar self-propelled howitzer Ukraine has a requirement of up to 300,000 artillery shells per month. (Photo: dpa) Brussels, Berlin The EU countries want to boost…
Selenski swears by unity in the battle for Bachmut
Volodymyr Zelensky The President of Ukraine wants to keep the city of Bakhmut. (Photo: dpa) Kyiv Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reaffirmed the unity of the military leadership in Kiev…
CEO Papperger’s clever but daring calculation
Panthers Rheinmetall is still looking for the first customer for its new main battle tank – and may find one in Ukraine. (Photo: dpa) Armin Papperger has chutzpah – without…
Russia threatens to attack planned Rheinmetall plant in Ukraine
Rheinmetall Panther tank It will probably take a while before this model goes into series production. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Rheinmetall’s plans to build a tank factory in the Ukraine are…
Can autonomous weapons still be regulated?
Berlin The war in Ukraine is often taking place according to decades-old strategies: artillery fire, trenches, house-to-house fighting. But the massive use of drones to recon and engage enemy positions…
In all friendship – Scholz and Biden seal alliance in difficult times
Washington It is well known that US President Joe Biden considers personal exchange to be indispensable, and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz is also considered a friend of face-to-face discussions. Both…
Federal government wants to buy decommissioned Leopard tanks from Switzerland
A Panzer 87 Leopard of the Swiss Army The model is based on the Leopard 2A4, but has been continuously developed. (Photo: picture alliance/KEYSTONE) Berlin In Switzerland, the federal government…
Ukraine war: Europe’s unity is fragile
>>iOS Poland has enshrined a three percent target in law; for 2023 it is even planning four percent and more. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are targeting three percent, and Norway,…
Ukraine war: Europe’s unity is fragile
>>iOS Poland has enshrined a three percent target in law; for 2023 it is even planning four percent and more. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are targeting three percent, and Norway,…