Tag: defence

• Friday, October 30th 2026 - 01:09 UTC

  Brazil to spend nearly three-quarters of its 2027 defence budget on personnel and pensions

  

  Brazil plans to allocate 147.68 billion reais to defence in 2027, about US$27 billion at current exchange rates, but 73% of that will go on salaries, retirement benefits and pensions, according to the budget bill sent to Congress. With only 8.6% set aside for investment, the country will have to decide the pace of programmes that include fighter jets, frigates, armoured vehicles and a nuclear-powered submarine.

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• Wednesday, March 7th 2012 - 17:20 UTC

  The city on the Mersey gathered for a final farewell to HMS Liverpool

  

  Crowds gathered on the Wirral and in the heart of Liverpool to bid a fond and final farewell to Type 42 destroyer HMS Liverpool. She sailed into the Mersey last week for a six-day visit, berthing alongside at the Cruise Liner Terminal.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  South America military expenditure up 2010, but insignificant in global terms

  

  The region with the largest increase in military expenditure in 2010 was South America, with a 5.8% increase in real terms, reaching a total of 63.3 billion US dollars according to the latest report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 20:51 UTC

  Unasur members will share and disclose data on military expenditure

  

  For the first time ever South American countries will jointly share and disclose data on their military expenditures, according to the Ecuadorian Ministry of Defence. It is anticipated that next March all member countries from Unasur (Union of South American Nations) will make public the information following on this year’s approval of a common methodology to measure Defence expenditure.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 - 00:16 UTC

  UK, France sign historic defence-sharing agreement including nuclear arms

  

  After years of political division, Europe's two biggest military powers have come together to sign a historic defence-sharing agreement.

• Wednesday, July 28th 2010 - 17:48 UTC

  Brazilian military exercise to protect nuclear plants and vast offshore oil deposits

  

  Brazil is holding military exercises along its Atlantic coast with the deployment of 10.000 troops from the three services to ensure the country can protect its nuclear plants and massive offshore oil industry.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 07:04 UTC

  Peru and Chile agree on confidence building measures in defence affairs

  

  Peruvian Defence Minister Rafael Rey said this week that representatives from Chile and Peru would meet next Monday for the first time in an effort to establish common criteria for approving military expenditures. Rey also said he would meet with his Chilean counterpart, Jaime Ravinet, in Lima in August.