🇸🇪 Flares release at 🇬🇧 Donna Nook Air Weapons Range. Swedish Air Force sent two JAS 39D #Gripen to RAF Coningsby earlier this week. Photo: Alan Knight www.flickr.com/photos/elfin...

In the latest provocation, a Baltic Fleet special forces unit conducted parachute-landing and prisoner-capture exercises in the Kaliningrad region, directly along the borders of Lithuania and Poland. My latest…

Tweeting before morning coffee is a bit risky but this actually happened.. so welcome 🇨🇴 #Colombia 💪🪅🎉 #Gripen E/F deal signed. 15 E + 2 F. www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...

Can never have too much fuel right? 🇧🇷 F-39E #Gripen air to air refuelling while carrying three drop tanks, two bombs and two IRIS-T missiles. Photo: Saab AB www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...

Vintage Friday: During the 1993 Swedish tank trials, the T-80U was not a participant, but it was trialled separately the next year.

The Norwegian Armed Forces has released a short documentary about the 100 days Arctic patrol experiment. With English subtitles! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h7M...

⚡️ Nordics, Baltics pledge $500 million arms package for Ukraine under NATO-led scheme.

E-7 Wedgetail dead as NATO AWACS replacement. A huge shift, in particular as it is "Due to the US withdrawal" and "goal remains to have [...] aircraft operational by 2035" and "US withdrawal also demonstrates importance of investing as much as possible in European industry." Saab GlobalEye inbound?

1031 companies in Norway have controlling interests from China, Russia or Iran. Additionally several (double digits) of these companies are involved in critical infrastructure. www.nrk.no/norge/utlend...

Good article by @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Already during the GWOT there were serious concerns about sharing intel and prisoners with the US, but this is a whole new level. As a reservist during that time I actually wrote some letters to politicians to highlight this, but got only mealy-mouthed non-answers back.

Australia now has a permanent defence liaison in Norway to facilitate missile systems cooperation. Australia operates both NSM and JSM from Kongsberg. www.fma.no/aktuelt-og-m...

NORDEFCO met yesterday in Helsini, with both ministers of defence and defence chiefs from the participating countries. www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...

More drones and more men are needed, according to the Norwegian Home Guard Council, a civilian advisory board for the Home Guard. The board is the only one of its kind in the Norwegian Armed Forces, due to the unique nature of the Home Guard. www.forsvaretsforum.no/droner-eirik...

Allied aircraft monitor Russian border activity defence-blog.com/allied-aircr...

STOCKHOLM — As a NATO anti-submarine warfare exercise kicked off this week, top commanders said that with Sweden in the alliance, the Baltic Sea is now a “lake full of NATO submarines” under unified command. breakingdefense.com/2025/11/with...

🇩🇰Denmark signs contract with Saab for additional 84mm Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifles, ammunition and training equipment worth 450m DKK (47m EUR) as a follow up on the first M4 order in 2022. The Danish Army had 1,117 Carl-Gustaf M2 and M3 by the end of the #Coldwar

The procurement covers the weapon system, associated ammunition and training kit intended to support Danish forces, according to Saab. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/?p=63896

Denmark commits €188M more to Ukraine through its 28th military aid package, funding Ukrainian defense industry directly and securing US weapons through NATO "As long as Russia doesn't want peace, we must ensure Ukraine is in the best possible position” euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/11/d...

There is a direct path from the Kremlin to the far right in Europe. These parties have not Europe's interest at heart and are actively undermining our democracies. They need to be outlawed and prevented to enter the political framework.

Long 🧵 which gives an excellent overview of the 🇫🇮 Finnish preparedness system, posted in March 2022 by @jmkorhonen.fi.

French Rafales operated out of Norwegian base Ørland last week, solving complex missions with local F-35s. www.forsvaret.no/aktuelt-og-p...

The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration is building a test facility for unmanned systems in Karlsborg. The aim is to become a Swedish hub for testing, measuring and developing unmanned systems, in close collaboration with the Armed Forces, FOI and industry. www.fmv.se/aktuellt--pr...

AIS-spoof-station WHISKEY 365 in Finland is offline. It operated with a noteworthy 100% uptime for over a year. Oct 30 it started publishing anomalous data and caused a mass spoof event Nov 2. Now offline since a few hours. Guess: they were raided by FI authorities.

The Danish MOD announced the interim solution for short/medium range air defence has been converted into permanent confirming acquisition of (Altinget): 2 x NASAMS (Kongsberg) i.e. not leased 2 x IRIS-T SLM (Diehl) 2 x MICA (MBDA) In additon (long range) 2 x SAMP/T (MBDA)

Official Danish military web sites seem to be down at the moment.

🇺🇦🇸🇪 #Ukrainian company sign #MoU with Saab on production for #Gripen E fighters - DefMin IMO, if done similar to the Brazilian deal then Ukraine could be tasked to supply certain Gripen aerostructures for the global market. Larger volume. 1/2 newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine...

Norwegian DM Sandvik confirms there are talks to increase the financing of the defence plan. Costs have increased while the world situation has not improved. Other measures like increased cooperation with allies are also being discussed. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Gy...

Vintage Friday: A 1964 photo of Swedish and Finnish soldiers in UNFICYP (United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus). The Swede is equipped with an Ag m/42B and the Finnish soldier on the right is equipped with a Valmet RK 62 assault rifle.

Poland and Romania are deploying a new weapons system to defend against Russian drones. The American Merops system can identify and target drones using AI, even when communications are jammed. Denmark will also use Merops. www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...

🇸🇪 DefMin P. Jonson on way forward for #Gripen to 🇺🇦 #Ukraine. - Joint Working Group w/ roadmap - E < 3 yrs from contract - C/D potentional gapfiller * (Ukrainian DefMin Shmyhal hoping that C/D could arrive already 6 months from start of training.) 1/2 www.regeringen.se/pressmeddela...

Not all that closely related to Nordic security and defence, but I enjoyed author Charles Stross' take on the state of things: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

Nammo considering expansion, new sites. www.forsvaretsforum.no/ammunisjon-m...

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

The seventh allied reception centre in Norway, Camp Rødsmoen, has now opened. Capacity will eventually be 6,000 soldiers. www.forsvaret.no/aktuelt-og-p...

Progress on Norway's improved radar warning chain, the first sites are nearing completion. www.fma.no/aktuelt-og-m...

Danish forces, as part of Forward Land Forces in Latvia, get started with this year's brigade manoeuvres. www.forsvaret.dk/da/nyheder/2...

🇷🇺 Consulate General in Kirkenes 🇳🇴 continues to recruit employees from the FSB Border Guard Service. Read about how the Barents Observer discovered Denis Kurilov's covert background.

The EU’s role in defence hinges largely on the level of defence funding in the next EU budget. New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @lscazzieri.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/bxYKhe4

Norwegian authorities have decided to open the competition to build the two new standardized vessel classes to Norwegian companies only. www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/u...

Solderis from the Norwegian Army spent 100 days in the field the previous winter as part of the Fagplan Arktisk Miljø 100 (FAM100) research project, and the findings will be presented during the coming Cold Weather Operations Conference 2025 in Hamar, Norway. www.forsvaret.no/aktuelt-og-p...

The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency has ordered a number of grenade machine guns from Heckler & Koch, with delivery being in spring 2026. The size of the order is 250 million NOK. www.fma.no/aktuelt-og-m...

The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration has ordered an increased number of missile rails of the UML type (Universal Missile rail Launcher) to carry weapons and countermeasures on the JAS 39 Gripen. www.fmv.se/aktuellt--pr...

The Danish Home Guard is getting more and better gear, incoming soon is new sleeping bags, gloves, load carrying gear, night fighting optics, personal protection and much more. www.fmi.dk/da/nyheder/2...