Stockholm-based defense startup Swebal is set to build Sweden’s first TNT production facility since the 1990s, following a 3-million-euro ($3.45 million) investment to fast-track construction.
Despite widespread discontent in Iran, the regime is unlikely to fall through revolution or external provocation, and pursuing such a strategy could trigger catastrophic consequence.
Fighting between Iran and Israel could deflect global attention from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and even bolster Kremlin's war effort, Ukrainian officials say.
Any NATO target to ramp up defense spending to five percent of annual economic output would be "unreasonable" for Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
Israel's military said it struck dozens of targets in Tehran overnight, including what it called a center for the "research and development of Iran's nuclear weapons project."
A hospital in southern Israel and two towns near Tel Aviv were struck after a barrage of Iranian missiles, with rescuers reporting at least 47 people injured.
The Israeli army said it had struck an "inactive nuclear reactor" in Arak in Iran during overnight raids that also saw the Islamic republic's Natanz nuclear site targeted again.
The US Army has experienced a setback in increasing its artillery munition production by October. The increase supports a broader target of over a million 155-millimeter howitzer shells next year in response to rising global demand amid the war in Ukraine.
Europe’s ability to defend itself is being undermined not just by underinvestment, but by poor communication — especially the failure of smaller, innovative defense companies to make themselves seen, heard, and understood by policymakers, investors, and the public.