European Defence Agency @EUDefenceAgency@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
🛫Future Medium-Size Tactical Cargo (FMTC)
🇫🇷 project coordinator
🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪 project members
📤#PESCO wave 4
Tactical cargo aircraft are the workhorses of the air forces for logistics, medical evacuations, & special missions.
FMTC - next generation tactical air mobility capability
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1619989970630111232
What will future 🇪🇺capabilities of medium and outsized cargo aircraft look like?
✈️EDA is supporting 2 #PESCO projects to develop the next generation tactical air mobility & a European solution for the transport of outsized & heavy cargo.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1619989967509520384
EDA Chief Exec, Jiří Šedivý, congratulated @MoranCait on her new appointment as 🇮🇪 PSC Ambassador🤝
They discussed;
🔹 Ireland's cooperation with EDA
🔹 Capability Development Plan's revision
🔹 #StrategicCompass implementation
🔹 EDA's industry engagement policy
#EUdefence
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1618944305091190784
🇸🇪 Today, EDA welcomed Minister of Defence of Sweden @PlJonson to the Agency
Meeting w/ Jiří Šedivý focused on Hub for #EUdefence Innovation #HEDI, joint procurement & EDA’s role in supporting 🇪🇺states in capability development
ℹ️Europeiska försvarsbyrån https://eda.europa.eu/docs/default-source/eda-factsheets/factsheet_eda-the-hub_sv.pdf
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1618257994260832259
#wef23 | EDA Chief Executive, Jiří Šedivý, attended @WEF @Davos to discuss how the risk of confrontation reemerged in #Europe.
💬 "The war in Ukraine was a wake-up call for Europe concerning our limited capacities."
Re-watch here 👉 https://bit.ly/3iK2THC
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1615745970033102851
During the Single European Sky Miliary #Aviation Board, EDA Deputy CE, Olli #Ruutu, met with @SESAR_DM Exec Director, @MariagraziaSDM in Lyon🇫🇷
🛫Good discussions on the importance of civil-military cooperation in deploying #SESAR technology & making ATM more efficient for🇪🇺sky.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1615734320395653121
#Interoperability between civil & military #aviation is a key enabler of security & defence air missions.
EDA Deputy CE, Olli #Ruutu, opens Single European Sky Miliary #Aviation Board underscoring importance of data sharing to ensure interoperability in 🇪🇺sky
📍Airbase 942 🇫🇷
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1615666586463129602
The military will need more airspace.
Joint civil & military efforts are needed to optimise the management and use of #airspace for new entrants and next generation systems.
Today EDA Single European Sky Miliary #Aviation Board meet in 🇫🇷 to address challenges in a shared🇪🇺sky
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1615269611741777926
#EDM24 | In an interview with EDA 🇨🇿 Deputy Minister of Defence, Jan Jireš, spoke;
🔹Buying off-the-shelf equipment
🔹Joint procurement challenges
🔹Transatlantic bond
"We have to get rid of the legacy Soviet-made military equipment."
Download here: https://bit.ly/3ISup0o
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1615010014422237186
#EDM24 | Interviewed by EDA, @RheinmetallAG
CEO Armin Papperger shared his view on:
🔹 🇩🇪 defence industry
🔹 Europeanisation in defence policy
🔹 Logistics & supply chain
"Freedom and democracy can’t rely solely on dialogue and economic cooperation".
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1613914598729519104
#EDM24 | 🇩🇪 Defence Minister, Christine #Lambrecht, sat down with EDA to discuss;
🔹 close coordination between #EU & NATO
🔹 The war in #Ukraine
🔹 France & Germany special cooperation
📎 Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3QwMZgn
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1613551414499844098
#EDM24 | In an EDA interview, the Head of Ukraine's Mission to 🇪🇺 @VVChentsov discussed;
🔹#EU military aid
🔹 Future membership
🔹 🇺🇦 partnership with EDA
"Any war ends with a settlement. But that settlement is not Ukraine's surrender".
Read more https://bit.ly/3vWW88g
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1613201319950417922
🚨 #EDAjobs | 4 days left to apply to:
💼 Project Officer Innovation
🖥️ IT Applications Administrator
✈️ Project Officer Aviation
📝Project Officer Land
⌛ Apply by 10/01
ℹ️ Find all EDA vacancies here: https://bit.ly/3QokmBN
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1611375698135891970
This is the season! 🎄🎁
The European Defence Agency wishes you a Happy Christmas, New Year and relaxing winter holidays.
The agency will reopen on January 3rd ☃️
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605941289798746112
✈️Innovation in the air.
⛽️EDA's research into the hose and drogue system will prepare air-to-air refuelling tankers, such as the #MRTT to cope with more demanding operations and be ready for the next generation of unmanned platforms.
#EUdefence #Innovation #defencenews
RT @AirbusDefence: Airbus to lead research into automatic air-to-air refuelling #A3R for hose & drogue system, launched by @EDA. The 2-year project, led by Spain in collaboration with Germany, w…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605858579382050816
⛽️ EDA launches research into automatic air-to-air refuelling.
New 🇪🇸 led & 🇩🇪 project starts to develop an automatic AAR operation with hose & drogue system, including flight tests in 2024.
2-year project w/ @AirbusDefence @infoGMV @DLR_en & AES Tech
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1605567628143108096
📷 EDA Chief Exec, Jiří Šedivý, met @ACWLapsley, NATO Assistant SG for #NDPP.
They discussed:
➡️ensuring coherence of output between #NDPP & #CDP
➡️enhancing staff cooperation 🤝
#JointDeclaration #EUNATO #Defence
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1604786510590382081
RT @JosepBorrellF: Five years ago #PESCO was launched.
To deepen defence cooperation among EU Member States and to develop more critical defence capabilities.
Today, Member States are working together on 60 common PESCO projects.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602247161177161728
RT @KristaSaloFI: 5️⃣ years of #PESCO 🎂
🔹 25 🇪🇺 participating Member States
🔸 20 binding commitments
🔹60 projects: land, maritime, air, cyber, training, and joint enablers
🔸5th wave of project proposals ongoing
More information:
💻 https://www.pesco.europa.eu/
🗞️https://eda.europa.eu/webzine/issue24 pp: 30-33
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602013350342578176
RT @JosepBorrellF: Data from @EUDefenceAgency show Europeans are spending more on defence. Now we must also spend better and cooperate more. To support Ukraine, address urgent needs, and prepare for the future. My new blog post on #EUDefence:
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/investing-more-together-europe%E2%80%99s-defence_en
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUDefenceAgency/status/1602005302886699008
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