Defence`s Feeds

After a 13% increase in 2021, the budget allocation of the Direction du Renseignement et de la Sécurité de la

On 12 September, government security specialist Torchlight Group was taken over by its rival, Axiom International, with backing from investment

How to Lose Weight When Joining the Military

Vietnam's foreign minister Bui Thanh Son ended his recent visit to Moscow with a press conference on 28 September given jointly with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Appointed on 8 April this year by Prime Minister and former spymaster Pham

Israeli cyber intelligence company Cognyte, a spin-off from Israel's Verint group, is looking for a new contract in Indonesia's signals intelligence (SIGINT)

Accompanied by a representative of the political department of the Russian embassy in Paris, professional risk consultant Emmanuel Leroy launched

Verbal clashes between India and Pakistan were more heated than usual at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on 17 September

At least five special forces and elite commando generals, all employed in Ankara's operations in Syria, have stepped down in

British armed security company Vellichor International is facing its first test in Libya. Its largest client, Italian oil company ENI,

The International Council of Business Associations and Chambers in Ukraine (ICBAC), which was founded in 2017, held its annual post-summer holiday

Vietnam's foreign minister Bui Thanh Son ended his recent visit to Moscow with a press conference on 28 September given jointly with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Appointed on 8 April this year by Prime Minister and former spymaster Pham

Israeli cyber intelligence company Cognyte, a spin-off from Israel's Verint group, is looking for a new contract in Indonesia's signals intelligence (SIGINT)

Accompanied by a representative of the political department of the Russian embassy in Paris, professional risk consultant Emmanuel Leroy launched

Verbal clashes between India and Pakistan were more heated than usual at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on 17 September

At least five special forces and elite commando generals, all employed in Ankara's operations in Syria, have stepped down in

British armed security company Vellichor International is facing its first test in Libya. Its largest client, Italian oil company ENI,

The International Council of Business Associations and Chambers in Ukraine (ICBAC), which was founded in 2017, held its annual post-summer holiday

The ‘European Spartan Exercise’ 2021, an annual flying exercise organised by the C-27J community with the support of EDA and hosted this year by the Bulgarian Air Force, is currently underway at Plovdiv (27 Sep.-8. Oct). The aim of the exercise is to increase interoperability among European countries operating the C-27J Spartan military aircraft. It is one of the concrete outcomes of the European Air Transport Fleet (EATF) partnership signed in 2011 by 20 EDA Member States.
 
Four countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia) are participating in this year’s event, with four aircraft. The exercise is part of EDA’s dedicated C-27J project (Cat.B) where the five participating Member States C-27J users (the four afore-mentioned countries plus Romania) identify and develop common projects in the domains of operations, training, logistics, procurement, airworthiness and SESAR (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research) to achieve a high level of interoperability and cost-efficient operating and maintenance models. It’s the 5th edition of the exercise the last of which took place in Romania in 2019 (the 2020 edition was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic).

Tactical training

The C-27J Spartan aircraft is designed to perform tactical missions in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, providing direct air transport to the theatre, day and night. The Spartan Exercise is also focused on those types of operations, training C-27J crews to fly low level, tactical navigations in different scenarios. Several airfields in Bulgaria have been chosen for training: at Cheshnegirovo airfield, crews are performing Tactical Approaches, Personnel Airdrops and Aerial Cargo Delivery, whereas Bezmer Air Base was chosen to simulate EROs (engine running operations) for medical evacuations. Operators from the Bulgarian Joint Special Operation Command as well as a Combat Control Team from the Special Forces of the Italian Air Force also take part in the exercise. 

More information

• EDA’s C-27J cooperation concept 

 

A dull patch of bare land running along a B-road next to a cemetery in a small town near Bordeaux will soon play a vital role in France's data and intelligence landscape. This small plot number AP2 in Le Porge

Continuing its management shakeup, the Italian cyberintelligence company Cy4gate announced the appointment of Marco Latini as its chief financial officer