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Royal Navy Merlins Fly to the Anti-submarine Exercise
A Royal Navy helicopter squadron is taking part in NATO’s largest Mediterranean anti-submarine exercise, Proud Manta, for the first time. Merlin Mk1 maritime patrol helicopters from 814 Naval Air Squadron (also known as ‘The Flying Tigers’) have flown 1,400 miles (2,250km) across Europe from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Helston, Cornwall, to Sicily in [...]
Five NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan
Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan attacked five oil tankers carrying supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The incident took place near the town of Mithri, some 230 kilometres (140 miles) southeast of Quetta, the capital of the restive oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province which borders Iran and Afghanistan. “Unknown gunmen fired at five [...]
NATO Achieves First Step on Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence Capability
On 27 January 2011, NATO’s first ever theatre ballistic missile defence (TBMD) capability has been handed over to NATO’s military commanders. The handover took place at the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) in Uedem, Germany, in the presence of NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, and civil and military authorities from NATO and [...]
DOD Needs to Address Challenges in Future European Missile Defense
DOD has initiated multiple simultaneous efforts to implement European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) but faces three key management challenges—the lack of clear guidance, life-cycle cost estimates, and a fully integrated schedule—which may result in inefficient planning and execution, limited oversight, and increased cost and performance risks. Since the September 2009 announcement of EPAA, stakeholders throughout [...]
NATO, Russia Meet at Odds over Missile Shield
NATO and Russian military brass went into talks Wednesday, bound in outrage over terrorism after Moscow’s airport bombing, but at odds over cooperation on a missile shield for Europe. Russian General Nikolai Makarov flew into Brussels to meet with fellow chiefs of staff from the 28-nation alliance in the latest step in thawing ties between [...]
Russia to continue developing missile defense system
Russia will go forward with plans to develop its own missile defense system after the ratification of a strategic arms reduction treaty with the United States, Russia’s Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday. The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, ratified on Wednesday the new arms reduction pact, replacing START 1, [...]
Criticisms Mean Efficiencies on Right Track, Lynn Says
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Members of Congress from both parties have expressed the opinion that the Defense Department has cut too much or too little from the defense budget. “In Washington, if you get criticized from both sides, it usually means you have the right position,” Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn said here today. Though Lynn [...]
NATO networks vulnerable to cyber threat: US
NATO’s military networks are not fully protected against cyber threats and the alliance must make good on a pledge to erect a virtual wall by 2012, a top US defence official said Tuesday. US Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn warned at the end of a two-day visit to Brussels that the cyber threat was “maturing” [...]
Lynn Assesses NATO’s Cybersecurity Progress
NATO is moving ahead with plans to protect the alliance’s cyberspace domain, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said here today. In an interview at the European Defense Agency, Lynn said NATO leaders are taking concrete steps to defend cyberspace. Lynn called his visit a “a bookend trip.” He had visited the alliance headquarters [...]
