A Forecast International blog about the arms trade, geopolitics, defense and security, and military spending.
In what has been described by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as the “biggest single investment in Australia’s defense capability in all our history,” Albanese and his counterparts from the …
AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Details Come to Light Read More
As the United Kingdom confronts labor disputes, a struggling National Health Service, a possible recession, and post-Brexit depression, the nation’s formerly renowned military faces its own reckoning. While British munitions …
The British Military’s Winter of Discontent Read More
The British Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems a GBP4.2 billion ($4.97 billion) contract for a second batch of Type 26 frigates destined for the Royal Navy. The new …
U.K. Defence Ministry Orders Type 26 Batch 2 Frigates Read More
Consider a country on Europe’s easternmost fringes that once shared a larger border with the former Soviet Union. This country emerged from the dissolution of the USSR an independent state, …
A Tale of Two Former Soviet Republics (Or: How Much is Ukraine Getting in Trans-Atlantic Military Aid?) Read More British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled the Conservative government’s Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 (SR21) on October 27. The latest U.K. Spending Review sets departmental budgets out to fiscal …
U.K. Spending Review Indicates Shrinking Real-Term Defense Investment Read More The decision by Australia to scrap its $66 billion deal to purchase French-designed submarines in favor of a nuclear-powered option enveloped within a broader three-nation security pact with the U.S. …
The Fallout from Australia’s Submarine Decision and Other Ramifications of the AUKUS Pact Read More
by J. Kasper Oestergaard, European Correspondent, Forecast International. In a scathing March 14 report released by the U.K. Parliament’s Defence Committee, the British Army’s armored fighting vehicle capability is called deplorable, …
Scathing Report on the British Army’s Armored Fighting Vehicle Capability: ‘Deplorable, Obsolescent and Outgunned’ Read More In what may reasonably be described as a surprise, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a major investment package for the Ministry of Defence – marking the largest such …
British Government Announces Major Defense Spending Boost Read More
The first of nine Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) intended for the Royal Air Force (RAF) arrived in Scotland on February 4. The arrival of this aircraft marks …
First P-8A Poseidon Arrives in U.K. Read More After having been tapped as the preferred bidder in the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) competition for the design and build of the Type 31e general purpose (GP) frigates back …
Babcock Inks Royal Navy Type 31e Frigate Contract Read More