Defence

Portugal’s minister of National Defence stated last week that the country’s Armed Forces are on high alert to help prevent and combat wild fires but also for firefighting, warning of the “very [...]

The Portuguese Army is expected to receive a share of over €1.1Bn from the European SAFE loan programme out of a total of €5.8 billion secured by Portugal from Brussels. Two-wheeled armored [...]

Just a decade ago Portugal was an interested observer on the sidelines of Europe’s and America’s defence technology industry advances.. Not any more. Things have changed with the NATO country [...]

Portugal’s Foreign minister, Paulo Rangel believes that Portugal’s defence sector can take advantage of the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East and Ukraine. Speaking at the Growth [...]

Text: Chris Graeme I remember going to see the film ‘Top Gun’ back in 1986 with some university pals in Colchester, UK. It was not because I was really that interested in military matters [...]

The US ambassador to Portugal, John Arrigo, has suggested that Portugal step up its security of undersea transatlantic cables linking the two countries. According to news source Expresso, the [...]

The President of the defence cluster AED, José Neves, says that defence companies within the cluster are strengthening their international presence in the US and Middle East. In an interview with [...]

The Optimal Group has won the Portuguese Navy’s competition to install ballistic protection on the NRP Scorpio inspection boat, the first step towards the expansion of the Portuguese [...]

Tekever, the Portuguese company that builds drones, some of which have defence applications, is to open a base in Swindon in the UK. It will be the fourth unit that the company has opened in [...]

Lisbon’s stock market is eying defence sector companies in a bid to attract them to list on the PSI index. Euronext Lisbon wants to take advantage of a new wave of defence investment in the [...]