NATO set to boost troops on high alert

NATO is set to boost the number of troops on high alert and increase ammunition production, its secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

European arms stockpile depleted, to take 5-10 years to recover, new opportunities for defense industry

Arms warehouses across Europe have been emptied and it will take from 5 to 10 years to replenish them, former Slovak Prime Minister and leader of the Voice-Social Democracy Party Peter Pellegrini said.

US military industry struggling to meet Ukraine demand – WSJ

American arms manufacturers are struggling to obtain enough rocket motors to build missiles for Ukrainian forces, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. With multiple contractors relying on a single supplier, production targets have already been pushed back.

Putin pledges to boost Russian weapon production and ‘strengthen’ armed forces

President Vladimir Putin has called Russia's army a guarantor of national stability, and promised to boost arms production nearly a year after the start of the Ukraine offensive.

Ukraine using more munitions than NATO producing, depleting allied stockpiles, says Stoltenberg

NATO needs "to ramp up production" of ammunition as Ukraine's rate of usage is far outstripping current capacities and draining stockpiles, the defense alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.

Russian president Putin says army must tackle problems it has in Ukraine, to test performance of weapons in combat conditions

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the Russian army had to learn from and fix the problems it had  in Ukraine, promising to give the military whatever it needed to prosecute a war nearing the end of its 10th month.

NATO Chief Calls to Boost Arms Production | Farsnews Agency

By providing support to Ukraine most NATO member states have significantly depleted their own weapons stockpiles, the military alliance’s secretary general acknowledged. Jens Stoltenberg urged the defense industry to help replenish the thinned-out armories.

Lockheed Martin gets $1 billion F-35 support contract

Lockheed Martin has secured a $1 billion contract from the U.S. government and other customers to provide various support services for the F-35 aircraft.

Asia arms imports on the rise as India buys new jets

Increased arms imports into the Asian region are primarily due to the unstable security environment in the Middle East and concerns from China's neighbors over its rise, analysts said, emphasizing this makes the region more volatile.

Russia mulling no extra sanctions on West (Industry and Trade Minister)

Russia has not prepared any additional sanctions on the West, a government minister said Thursday.

"We were not preparing any proposals on any additional measures," Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov told reporters.

Russia expects that the joint projects with the West which are being implemented could be continued, he added.

German industry concerns about sanctions against Russia

Sanctions against Russia had already negatively affected German exporters and would not be an effective means to solve political crisis, warned Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) on Monday.

"Approximately one in four German companies that are active abroad were affected," said DIHK foreign trade chief Volker Treier in an interview with German newspaper Rheinische Post.

Those doing business with both the United States and Russia were particularly affected, because they had to check almost all their contracts due to different sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union, he said.

Russia seeks deeper defense cooperation with Belarus after Ukraine crisis

Moscow seeks deeper defense industry cooperation with neighboring Belarus following the developments in Ukraine, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday.

During talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Rogozin said, "The purpose of my visit is to see what else we can do with our Belarusian colleagues, taking into account the situation in Ukraine."

A recent military-industrial commission with Belarusian partners in the Tatarstan capital of Kazan has discussed ways to " establish stable work so that production can be planned," he was quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying.

Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin: Russia Should Re-Arm Amid US, NATO ‘Threats’

MOSCOW, March 9 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian deputy prime minister in charge of defense said “overt threats” by the United States and NATO demonstrate the necessity of equipping the Russian army with modern weapons.
“A hope that after the overt threats by the US and NATO nobody will doubt the necessity of rearming our army and fleet and of reviving our defense industry and military science,” Dmitry Rogozin wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday.
Another round of political standoff between Russia and the West was sparked by the recent uprising in Ukraine and the fate of Crimea, an autonomous Ukrainian region with a majority ethnic Russian population.