Latest
on top (updated regularly):
(https://twitter.com/martinbroek)
October 12
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The
#Danish MoD will order 16 additional #F35A fighter jets to bolster
the country’s Air Force, while keeping far from Swedish, German and
French fighter aircraft strengthen the European military industry to
be less dependent on the enemy in #Washington.
https://news.az/news/denmark-to-purchase-16-more-f-35a-fighters
***
Words
like these:
Peers in the H of Lords have warned that violent protests at UK military facilities risk undermining national security, disrupting supply chains, & damaging the reputation of the British defence industry abroad.https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/ministers-condemn-protests-targeting-uk-defence-sites/
Can be read as compliment
***
Broekstukken bespreking van een boek dat terug keek op het Zweeds-Indiase houwitzer corruptieschandaal en waarin de vraag aan de orde komt hoe de taken van onderzoeksjournaliste, moeder, echtgenote en vrouw gelijktijdig in de lucht te houden.
October 11
***
Ahhhhh poor Dutch #Damen.
It seems to be the last act of its #failing
Romanian corvette case.
#Romania has signed a agreement with #OCCAR, marking the first concrete step towards acquiring 4 combat #corvettes through the European Multirole Corvette programme, the MoD stated.
https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-corvette-occar-agreement-oct-2025
***
Defensie
zoekt de samenwerking met bedrijven om op grote schaal te leren
werken met drones. Het Actieplan Productiezekerheid Onbemenste
Systemen #APOS zorgt ervoor dat Defensie snel nieuwe #drones kan
maken en aanpassen.
Premier Schoof zei eerder dat Nederland binnen de Europese Unie een leidende rol wil spelen op dit gebied. APOS, de hechte samenwerking met Oekraïne en de opgedane ervaring van de NAVO-top geeft Nederland hiervoor een goede uitgangspositie.
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#Cyprus is
emerging as a strategic hub for high-tech companies developing
#drones & military systems.
The island’s isn't a member of NATO & the International Traffic in Arms Regulations #ITAR. It give companies flexibility in exports & int. collaborations. https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-emerges-as-european-hub-for-drone-technology
***
The US State
Department Isn’t Telling Congress When US Weapons Fall Into the
Wrong Hands.
Congress is being left in the dark about the fate of US weapons transfers, a new GAO report (https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107622) found.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/10/state-department-track-missing-us-weapons/
October 10
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***
I was pointed
to 'As US military boosts posture in Caribbean, how does #Venezuela’s
navy stack up?' . It states how Damen helped it: Venezuelan navy
showed the Iranian Fajr-1 multiple rocket launch system installed
aboard #Damen Interceptor 1102 boats.
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/as-us-military-boosts-posture-in-caribbean-how-does-venezuelas-navy-stack-up/
***
Who helped the
genocide?
Since the October 7, 2023 the US
government has spent $21.7bn on military aid to Israel, according to
policy analyst @WilliamHartung (Snr
Research Fellow, Quincy Institute). This doesn't include the tens of
billions in arms sales agreements that have been
committed for weapons and services that will be paid for and
delivered in the years to come."
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israel-gaza/
October 9
***
Antony
Loewenstein: The #Palestine laboratory has thrived for so long
because countless nations and their leaders have not cared that
Palestinians were the guinea pigs for the weapons and surveillance
tech that they so desperately craved.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-genocide-could-be-downfall-israels-arms-industry
***
Jeff Halper
pleit in *MO voor een rechtstaat met één parlement, één grondwet
en gelijke burgerschapsrechten voor Palestijnse Arabieren en Joodse
Israëlisch: "de Joodse aanwezigheid een feit. Als je dat
ontkent, plant je de kiem voor meer geweld."
https://www.mo.be/interview/interview-jeff-halper
***
F-126 vom Prestigeprojekt
zum Milliardengrab
Miljarden gezonken, geen fregat te
zien. Data kloppen niet, software faalt, niemand stuurt. De
inkoopafdeling? Die deelt nog steeds het geld uit. Duitsland bouwt
geen marine – maar monumenten voor mislukking.
https://blackout-news.de/aktuelles/fregatte-f-126-vom-prestigeprojekt-zum-milliardengrab/
Ondertussen komt marineschepen.nl met tekst & cartoon https://x.com/marineschepen/status/1976176774636765419/photo/1 over vetraging bij de bouw van Nl/Be ASW-fregatten door Damen. Deze zou begin '25 starten. Dat werd opgeschoven. Nu is het al 'n tijd stil rond het fregattenproject [PW] https://marineschepen.nl/nieuws/Waarom-de-bouw-van-de-asw-fregatten-nog-niet-is-begonnen-061025.html
***
Roughly 100
demonstrators gathered outside the Lockheed Martin facility in
Langstone Technology Park October 8 to oppose the company.
Rob Ferguson, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist, said the defence giant is actively aiding a “genocide” in Gaza. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/pro-palestine-protest-havant-lockheed-martin-israel-gaza-5351354
***
Juridical &
factual gymnastics to pretend not the #Dutch State but claimants have
won in the #F35 case. To let an dead end strategy continue.
Dutch Supreme Court Orders Government
to Reassess Export of F-35 Parts to Israel in Light of Int.
Obligations.
https://opiniojuris.org/2025/10/08/dutch-supreme-court-orders-executive-branch-to-reassess-export-of-f-35-parts-to-israel-in-light-of-international-obligations/
Protesters blockade Sheffield weapons factory in national day of action against the F-35
Stop Arming Israel targets Forged
Solutions over role in supplying fighter jets used in Gaza.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/08/protesters-blockade-sheffield-weapons-factory-in-national-day-of-action-against-the-f-35/
***
US and
allied export controls have failed to stop #China
from buying “vast quantities of highly sophisticated”
semiconductor manufacturing equipment #SME
it could use to advance its chipmaking capabilities and bolster its
military and surveillance apparatus, the House Select Committee on
China said in a Oct. 7 report. China spent $38bn in '24 on
products and services from 5 leading toolmakers based in the #US,
#Japan
& the
#Netherlands.
https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/selling-the-forges-of-the-future.pdf
Dutch link
Amerikaanse Huis eist scherpere exportcontroles #ASML-chipmachines. https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1573042/amerikaanse-huis-eist-scherpere-exportcontroles-asml-chipmachines
October 8
***
Blurring the lines
inside the MIC
One of Europe's largest arms companies,
#Thales #Belgium, has warned that an increasing number of #drones are
flying over its top-secret factories. The company wants to introduce
rules for jamming and #shooting them down.
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-weapons-firm-warns-drone-threat-production-lines/
***
Het Militair
Industrieel Wetenschappelijk Complex #MIC (in #Nederlandse overheids
kringen ook wel De Gouden Driehoek genoemd) is op volle toeren.
Minister Ruben Brekelmans en
staatssecretaris Gijs Tuinman zullen daarover vandaag de Tweede Kamer
informeren.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/10/06/defensie-zet-stappen-in-opbouw-industrie-innovatie-en-kennis
***
Dat juist #AI
en #extreemrechts elkaar zo goed vinden, is geen verrassing.
Sterker nog: het lijkt een match made
in heaven. Extreemrechtse partijen, discriminerende populisten en
andere verdeeldheidzaaiers hebben de kenmerken van AI effectief
omarmd.
https://www.villamedia.nl/artikel/hoe-de-journalistiek-de-toekomst-laat-kapen-door-techbros-en-fascisten
***
To make the world a
safer place?
European military firms may grow their revenue from European customers by an average 10.5% to 11.5% a year for the next decade, as most countries commit to NATO’s 2035 spending targets, Rothschild & Co. Redburn said. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/10/06/european-arms-industry-growth-to-beat-10-a-year-redburn-forecasts/
***
#UAE:
#Tawazun and #US #Anduril in talks to build #AI defence hub in Abu
Dhabi. The hub is designed to accelerate autonomous systems, ISR, and
C2 applications for UAE #military programs. [Paywall]
https://www.tacticalreport.com/daily/63898
***
Transparency
outdated?
#Australia’s
MoD has quietly removed online information about the country’s role
in producing parts for the #F35 fighter,
prompting claims that the government is concealing its contribution
to #Israel’s use of the aircraft in
Gaza.
https://thedefensepost.com/2025/10/07/australia-f35-export-israel/amp/
October 7
***
Italy’s
#Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity
A complaint lodged with the world court points to the Italian government’s role supplying #lethal #weapons to Israel amid its war on Gaza.
***
Timely to
quell #GenZ
Tata starts armoured vehicle production in #Morocco
In an Casablanca industrial zone, India’s #Tata Advanced Systems Ltd opened its 1st overseas military plant.
In India the vehicles are used by
paramilitary in internal security ops.
https://www.military.africa/2025/10/tata-begins-armoured-vehicle-production-in-morocco/
***
De #rakketen en
#drones die Rusland gebruikt om Oekraïense doelen te raken, worden
gemaakt met #onderdelen uit onder meer #Nederland en #Duitsland. Dat
heeft de Oekraïense president Zelensky gezegd in een videoboodschap
op X.
- https://sf-video.dpgmedia.net/14e8cb72-5c73-4b4f-976d-f9c7e08ab407-version-1759678645893/14e8cb72-5c73-4b4f-976d-f9c7e08ab407-640-600.mp4
- https://www.hln.be/buitenland/trump-heeft-soort-van-beslist-over-tomahawk-raketten-voor-oekraine~a2c6d779/
October 6
***
Members of
the Green Party of England and Wales have overwhelmingly voted to
call for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to be proscribed as a
terrorist organisation. The IDF is the national military of the State
of Israel.
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/10/green-party-conference-calls-for-the-israeli-defence-forces-to-be-proscribed-as-a-terrorist-organisation/
***
Hundreds of
thousands across Europe & the Middle East marched against
Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. In Amsterdam dressed in red
demonstrators demanded that their government take a harder line
against Israel & stop arms exports to the occupying power.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/5/mass-protests-from-amsterdam-to-istanbul-denounce-israels-gaza-genocide
***
Strategisch
adviseur voor #ASML Bruno Le Maire is benoemd tot minister van
#defensie in #Frankrijk. Dat maakte president Emmanuel Macron
zondagavond bekend, bij de presentatie van de nieuwe kabinetsploeg.
https://fd.nl/politiek/1572667/asml-adviseur-benoemd-tot-defensie-minister-in-frankrijk
October 3
***
The #Dutch
supreme court ruled Friday that the government could decide whether
to export #F35 fighter jet parts to Israel, overturning a previous
ban and ending a long-running legal saga.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/dutch-court-ban-on-government-sending-f-35-parts-to-israel-overruled/
And now Peoples Power? Or next
juridical step?
Reaction Dutch government on verdict (in
Dutch):
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/10/03/hoge-raad-export-f-35-onderdelen
***
How
top #arms exporters (US, Germany, Italy, France, UK, Spain) have
responded to the war in #Gaza: 2025 update.
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2025/how-top-arms-exporters-have-responded-war-gaza-2025-update
#Israel
***
#Swiss MoD
Martin Pfister urged Swiss lawmakers to press on with loosening curbs
on arms #exports to bolster its domestic industry and security ties,
a sensitive move for a country that has blocked the re-export of its
#weapons and ammunition to #Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/swiss-defence-minister-urges-overhaul-arms-export-law-sees-trust-stake-2025-10-02/
***
While the EU
has pressed for a halt in weapons sales to #Israel Serbian military
industries have supplied components, ammunition, and #military
equipment that Israeli forces continue to rely on, according to
regional security analysts.
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/israel-gideon-saar-serbia/2025/10/02/id/1228719/
#Serbia
***
Cost of ending
cooperation with #genocide.
"The main damage is not to exports to Israel, but to the contracts that Spanish industry has signed with #Israel," warns Félix Arteaga, a defence and security researcher at the Royal Elcano Institute in #Madrid. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/02/arms-embargo-can-israeli-military-technology-be-decoupled-from-europes
October 2
***
#Militarisering
Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland
#RVO gaat #Defensie helpen bij het versterken en opschalen van de
wapenindustrie. Stssec Tuinman en directeur-generaal RVO Abdeluheb
Choho hebben dit voornemen vandaag ondertekend.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/09/30/rvo-helpt-bij-versterken-defensie-industrie
***
Het antwoord
lijkt evident:
Moeten we uit de #NAVO? Volgens Jimmy
Dijk #SP wel.
https://www.radioviainternet.nl/podcasts/boos-de-podcast/2025/moeten-we-uit-de-navo-volgens-jimmy-dijk-sp-wel
Maar er zijn verder niet veel partijen die de militaire organisatie onder leiding van een anti-democratisch extreem rechtse autocratie willen verlaten.
***
#Germany has
approved #arms exports to #srael worth at least €2.46 million since
implementing a partial export ban, according to a response from the
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs to a parliamentary inquiry by
the Left Party.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-01/ty-article/germany-approves-2-46-million-euros-in-arms-exports-to-israel-after-partial-halt/00000199-9ecf-ddb4-abdd-ffffa4ea0000
***
“At their core,
these reforms [of US arms sales rules] are about deterring aggression
and, when needed, defeating our adversaries..When we streamline and
strengthen the foreign arms sales process, we..improve our domestic
manufacturing capabilities..”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-security/2025/10/01/washington-drives-arms-sales-overhaul-00588692
***
Militair-civiel
#VanHalteren Technologies heeft per 1 september alle zakelijke
activiteiten van Berkhout Hydraulics overgenomen. De activiteiten
worden voortgezet onder de naam Van Halteren Technologies Rotterdam,
vanuit de huidige locatie in #Rotterdam.
https://vanhalteren.com/news/van-halteren-technologies-neemt-berkhout-hydraulics-bv-over/
***
#Native
US communities that had long wanted the removal of military #honors
for soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded Knee #Massacre had their
hopes dashed by War Secretary Hegseth, in his effort to root out what
he calls a woke culture in the armed forces
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/10/01/wounded-knee-medals-decision-sparks-outrage-in-native-communities/
October 1
***
They let us believe
they are there to provide security, the ugly truth is denied.
#Leonardo's CEO: "Saying we are co-responsible for #genocide is an unacceptable exaggeration".
He explains the current relations with #Israel & with the companies DRS & Rada.
***
The badass steps
backwards.
#BIS is rolling back a rule that increased restrictions on firearms exports, the agency said, Sept. 30. US #firearms manufacturers told that the controls “would cost them hundreds of millions of dollars per year in lost sales.”
https://exportcompliancedaily.com/article/2025/09/30/bis-reverses-bidenera-firearms-export-control-rule-2509290045?BC=bc_68dcdc08ec0c9
***
Journalist
Esha Guy Hadjadj merkt in De Groene Amsterdammer op dat wanneer 't om
wapenembargo’s tegen Israël gaat, de olifant in de kamer zelden
wordt benoemd: door verhoogde NAVO-normen maakt Europa zich nog lange
tijd afhankelijk van Israëlische wapens.
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/israel-een-paria-we-hebben-hun-wapens-nodig
