Rudy Ruitenberg is a Europe correspondent for Defense News. He started his career at Bloomberg News and has experience reporting on technology, commodity markets and politics.
The deal gives Europe’s largest tactical-missile vendor full control over its main supplier of propulsion, a key asset in an industry prone to bottlenecks.
Under the banner of “extended all-arms air defense," as officials call the approach, soldiers deployed on NATO's eastern flank will get the gear first.
Russia is the greatest military threat to the EU and will remain so for “quite a period of time,” Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said.