In 2024, Germany supplied four EC-145 light helicopters and four 11001-15000 ship engines to Indonesia. The same year, it sold IRIS-T long-range air-to-air missiles to Thailand.

Germany and the U.K. have both promised to raise defense spending to 3.5% of GDP in the coming years. Merz, making his first trip to the U.K. since taking office in May, said it was "no ...

Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Germany's defense spending will hit 2.4% of GDP this year, and “we will raise defense spending step by step so that we will reach a NATO quota of 3.5% in ...

Germany and the UK have agreed to deepen their defense ties, including better harmonizing equipment export policy, days after Britain and France also moved to bolster their national security links ...

The treaty builds on a defense pact the U.K. and Germany, two of the biggest European supporters of Ukraine, signed last year pledging closer co-operation against a growing threat from Russia.

As countries in Southeast Asia look beyond the US and Russia for security partners, Germany is stepping up its defense diplomacy — signing deals, deploying warships and joining regional forums.

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, left, greets Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer astray pose for the media at a hotel prior to an E3 meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague ...