Greece Trims “Blinken Package”
Greece has refused to buy second-hand Freedom-class LCS and M2A2 Bradley IFVs due to the ill state of the equipment included in the Blinken Package.
blinken News
Land
Navy / Maritime
Defence Politics
Regional / Strategy
Air
Turkiye to wait until Sweden’s NATO Process is Completed
The U.S. State Department underlined that Turkiye’s F-16 acquisition process would wait until Sweden’s NATO admission process is completed.
Bilateral Relations
US Lifts Defence Restrictions on Greek Cyprus for 2024
US State Secretary approved lifting defence trade restrictions to Greek Cyprus for one year. The permission will be valid for 2024.
Bilateral Relations
Greek Diaspora to Intercept Turkish F-16 Programme
Greek diaspora sent a letter to US Secretary of State in order to prevent this country from modernising Turkish Air Force.
Air
Bilateral Relations
Regional / Strategy
Invisible Ties: F-16, Sweden's and Finland's access to NATO
US Ambassador to Turkiye Jeffry Flake made statements about the sale of the F-16 and Sweden and Finland's membership step in NATO.
Bilateral Relations
India, US to Strengthen Defence Relations amid CAATSA
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Foreign Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Regional / Strategy
North Korean Missile Tests Force ROK and Japan to get Closer
North Korea’s military tests force two rival countries, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, to get closer.
Bilateral Relations
US Denies $130M in Military aid to Egypt
The US State Department will withhold Egypt $130 million in military aid due to the country's record on human rights abuses.
Bilateral Relations
Regional / Strategy
U.S. and Greece renew defence deal in Eastern Mediterranean
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias signed an extension of the Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement (MDCA).
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
