The UK government has four Navy ships on hand to protect their waters from EU fishermen in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The Ministry of Defense confirms this to the dpa news agency on Saturday. – The Navy’s patrol boats could be used, among other things, to fend off EU fishing boats, the spokesman … Read more
The Netherlands will send extra soldiers to Iraq and Mali next year, Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Friday after the weekly Council of Ministers. In total it concerns a few hundred soldiers. In Iraq, the Netherlands has long been part of the coalition against the Islamic State (IS). The Dutch training missions have recently … Read more
Theme image Foto: Patrick Hattori – The deployment of military personnel in the major cities will be maintained until December 2. On Friday, the Council of Ministers approved the proposal of Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder (PS) and Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden (CD&V). – Operation Vigilant Guardian was launched in January 2015 in response … Read more
Nowhere else in our country – and by extension even Europe – is the situation regarding the corona virus as alarming as in the province of Liège. If the number of corona patients continues to rise, the Liège mayor Willy Demeyer (PS) wants to ask the army to install a field hospital next to one … Read more
The army has been waiting for it for almost twenty years, but today – after a welcome flight over all major cities – the first new military cargo plane puts its wheels on Belgian ground. The colossal Airbus 400M replaces the C-130, the iconic but worn out workhorses of the Belgian Air Force. – If … Read more
– © Raymond Lemmens – In Paal (Beringen) in Limburg, the Ministry of Defense, together with logistics giant Katoen Natie, has commissioned a large warehouse that will be the central distribution point for all army equipment until at least 2030. Apart from ammunition, oils and weapons. Although Fernand Huts of Katoen Natie stole the show … Read more
At the request of the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, the Netherlands will further scale down the deployment of soldiers in the country. The goal of the Dutch mission in Iraq is shifting from training military personnel to advising the Iraqi security sector, reports defence Wednesday. According to the international coalition, … Read more
The NH90 defense helicopter crashed near Aruba has been recovered, the Ministry of Defense reports on Wednesday. The parts are now being brought to the Netherlands, so that the Defense Security Inspectorate (IVD) can further investigate the cause of the crash. The helicopter sank a few days after the crash after two of the four … Read more