New opportunities for defence firms as EU steps up support for Ukraine
The European Commission is looking for startups and other innovators to address challenges across the land, air and sea domains.
Western Australia-based Skywest Airlines has announced its network operating statistics for the month of February 2010.
Skywest’s regular passenger transport (RPT) traffic, measured by revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs), increased by 30.32% to 18,175,000 from February 2009’s 13,946,000. Capacity, in available seat kilometres (ASKs) increased by 30.12% over the same period of the previous year to 36,786,000 from 28,271,000.
RPT passengers carried increased by 14.31% to a rounded figure of 25,000 compared with 22,000 (rounded) last February. The load factor rose slightly – by 0.08% – to 49.41% from 49.33% in February 2009.
RPT passenger data excludes charter passengers.
The European Commission is looking for startups and other innovators to address challenges across the land, air and sea domains.
Multiple countries have been deploying small arms as the last line of drone defence due to their multiple operational and tactical advantages.
The Singapore-based technology company unveiled its new rifle family at this week’s airshow. Chen Chuanren spoke with the ST Engineering’s head of small arms to find out more about how the weapons have been refined.
Any potential ‘Arctic Sentry’ mission would be months in the planning, but with tensions high in the region given the US’s push for Greenland, NATO countries will need to continue to emphasise their commitment to the region, analysts have said.
Defence Minister Gen Vladimir Padrino López has declared that the Venezuelan armed forces “will continue to employ all its available capabilities for military defence”.
The UK’s defence spending commitments remain uncertain as the government’s Defence Investment Plan, which had been due by the end of 2025, is yet to be published.