News Digest October 2013 - EU Defence Agency

09.10.2013 European Defence Agency

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First Collective Air-to-Air Refuelling Clearance Trial
 

The European Defence Agency, Italy and the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) jointly organise the first collective European Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) clearance trial on the Italian KC767. Starting on 5 September, aircraft from France (Mirage 2000, Rafale) and Sweden (Gripen) participate in the campaign to obtain technical and operatio...

 

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Military Airworthiness Conference 2013
 

The Military Airworthiness Conference 2013 took place on 25-26 September in Aix-en-Provence, France. This was the 5th conference arranged under the auspices of the Military Airworthiness Authorities (MAWA) Forum and built upon the success of previous EDA Military Airworthiness Conferences and workshops that had been organised in the Czech Republ...

 

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Call for Submissions: EDA-Egmont PhD Prize
 

The European Defence Agency (EDA) in partnership with Egmont Institute has the pleasure of inviting the best and the brightest of European academic scholars to submit their candidacy for the EDA-Egmont PhD Prize in Defence, Security and Strategy. If you have been awarded a PhD in the last academic year or beginning of current academic year (1 Se...

 

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Naval Challenges in the Arctic
 

The European Defence Agency, together with the Permanent Representation of Finland to the European Union today hosted a conference on the "Naval Challenges in the Arctic Region" highlighting the conclusions of a long term analysis conducted by the Wise Pen Team International. Pilvi-Sisko Vierros-Villeneuve, Ambassador and Permanent Representativ...

 

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EU US Defence Data 2011
 

EDA has compared the 2011 defence expenditure of its participating Member States with that of the United States for the same year. The data show that the US spent €503 billion on defence in 2011 compared to €193 billion spent in the EU: around 2,5 times more. In 2011, the governments of the 26 EDA pMS spent a total of €193 billio...

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