Funding for the items like protective gear and NVGs will be provided from the government’s €100 billion unique arms fund, a seismic uplift in defense spending aimed at ending decades of peacetime underfunding and acquiring new military equipment at pace to deter Russian aggression.
German armed forces 1st Lt. Tim Jantzen aims a training weapon inside the 227th Air Support Operations Squadron’s new Air National Guard Advanced JTAC Training System at the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. on Feb. 26, 2016. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Andrew J. Moseley/Released).UK reveals capture of Russian equipment, instructs industry to develop new countermeasures.
