Munich Security Conference 2025

US Vice President JD Vance accused the European leaders of violating democratic values and thus shocked the audience at MSC 2025. (Photo: MSC/Preiss)

The Munich Security Conference (MSC) was founded in 1963 as an event to discuss the issues and challenges as well as opportunities and perspectives of the Atlantic Alliance.

ASELSAN closed 2024 with over 1 billion USD export deals

Ahmet Akyol, President & CEO of ASELSAN: „We will continue to produce the highest technologies with the most qualified capabilities and the fastest processes, and present them to the world in frame of our strategic vision for 2030, which we call aselsaneXt2030.“ (Photo: ASELSAN)

ASELSAN, Turkey’s leading defence company, achieved an outstanding performance in
international sales in 2024 and exceeded US$1 billion of export contracts. Direct exports
doubled compared to the previous year, reaching US$217 million, while indirect exports
through land, naval, and air platforms totaled US$291 million,

Balanced, modern, capable!

Admiral Naveed Ashraf NI(M) T Bt in an interview with Naval Forces Editor-in-Chief Stefan Nitschke on 15 October 2024 in Amsterdam. (Photo: Mönch Group)

Admiral Naveed Ashraf NI(M) T Bt was commissioned in the Operations Branch of the Pakistan Navy in 1989. The Admiral is a graduate of Pakistan Navy War College Lahore, National Defence University Islamabad and Naval Staff College (USA).

Known unknowns

STYRIS has been designed to enable seamless integration of above and underwater sensors. (Artist’s impression: AEUK)

The protection of critical maritime infrastructures has become a top political priority since the September 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Another incident – not far away from the destroyed pipelines – happened last November when a fibre-optic cable has been damaged. It was described t

Rohde & Schwarz to deliver turnkey communications solutions for Dutch and Belgian ASW frigates

Rohde & Schwarz has been contracted to supply the NAVICS IP-based naval communications system for anti-submarine warfare frigates currently on order for the Netherlands and Belgium. (Artist’s impressions: Damen Naval)

Germany’s Rohde & Schwarz has been awarded a contract by the Dutch Materiel and IT Command (COMMIT), part of the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD), to supply its turnkey integrated communications system (ICS) for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNlN) and the Belgian Naval Component. The equipment will be integrated on board the two countries‘ anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigates currently on order.