DefenceTalkUS arms manufacturers are not cashing in directly from the thousands of missiles, drones and other weapons being sent to Ukraine, but they do stand to profit big-time over the long run by supplying countries eager to boost their defenses against Russia. Like other Western countries, the United States has turned to its own stocks […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-defense-contractors-see-longer-term-benefits-from-war-in-ukraine-78575/

DefenceTalkRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has reawakened interest in Switzerland’s concrete nuclear fallout shelters, built during the Cold War with enough space to shelter everyone in the country. Since the 1960s, every Swiss municipality has had to build nuclear bunkers for their residents, while such shelters have also been mandatory in all homes and residential buildings […]https://www.defencetalk.com/swiss-cold-war-bunkers-back-in-vogue-as-ukraine-conflict-rages-78582/

DefenceTalkRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a “new sense of urgency” among NATO member states to boost defence spending, the alliance’s chief Jen Stoltenberg said Thursday as he unveiled the organization’s 2021 report. The report itself — covering expenditures before Russia launched its war in February this year — showed just eight of NATO’s 30 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ukraine-war-spurring-nato-allies-to-spend-more-stoltenberg-78559/

DefenceTalkSweden’s prime minister said Wednesday she hasn’t ruled out NATO membership in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after having insisted until now on her country’s policy of military non-alliance. “I don’t rule out NATO membership in any way”, Magdalena Andersson told Swedish public television SVT, adding that a review of the country’s security […]https://www.defencetalk.com/swedens-pm-says-hasnt-ruled-out-nato-membership-78556/

DefenceTalkRussia on Tuesday temporarily exempted young IT workers from military service after an exodus of programmers following Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine. Military service is compulsory in Russia for men aged between 18 and 27. Many try to evade service through medical or educational exemptions while some simply ignore the summons. Men aged 27 and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-postpones-military-service-for-it-specialists-78553/

DefenceTalkFive weeks into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv has kept the extent of its military losses under wraps, but analysts say the country has probably succeeded in limiting the toll thanks to years of preparation and smart tactics. Hiding combat deaths and equipment destruction is standard procedure in wartime, and both Russia and Ukraine […]https://www.defencetalk.com/as-ukraine-holds-out-its-military-losses-remain-hard-to-gauge-78544/

DefenceTalkRomania’s health minister said Tuesday that the country would distribute potassium iodine tablets free of charge to prepare in case of a nuclear emergency amid Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. European countries have seen stocks of iodine fly off the shelves due to fears it may be needed to counter the risks of thyroid cancer […]https://www.defencetalk.com/romania-to-distribute-iodine-tablets-amid-ukraine-war-78547/

DefenceTalkRussia will “radically” reduce its military activity in northern Ukraine, including near the capital Kyiv, after “meaningful” talks in Istanbul, Moscow’s negotiators said Tuesday. “Given that the talks on the preparation of an agreement on the neutrality and non-nuclear status of Ukraine have moved into a practical field… a decision has been made to radically… […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-radically-reduce-military-activity-around-kyiv-78537/

DefenceTalkBerlin: Outdated equipment, woeful bureaucracy, demotivated soldiers: Germany has quite a task ahead to modernize its army, which it has vowed to do in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Three days after the attack began, Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a landmark speech pledged a special budget of 100 billion euros for the military, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/how-germany-shaken-by-ukraine-plans-to-rebuild-its-military-78534/

DefenceTalkUkraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts said Thursday. The embattled nation uses details resulting from the process to try to track down and notify the families of the dead, in an act Ukraine says […]https://www.defencetalk.com/complex-questions-as-face-recognition-tech-joins-ukraine-war-78510/