Current Events in Europe

Polish Navy decommissions last Tarantul corvettes (Jane's)

Scotland Unveils Defense Plans If It Splits From UK (Aviation Week) There's scenario fodder here.

Russian Navy Gets New Carrier-Based Fighters (RIA Novosti)

Statistical Bulletin Series 4 provides figures on the equipment of the United Kingdom Armed Forces and gives international comparisons. (PDF)

We Just Hunted Down All of Russias Long-Range Bombers (War is Boring blog)

MiG Begins Testing New Russian Navy Fighter Jets (RIA Novosti)

Why Russia keeps moving the football on European missile defense (Breaking Defense)

France Floats Out First Russian Mistral Warship (RIA Novosti)

Russia Puts Submarine Trials on Hold After Bulava Failure (RIA Novosti)

British navy arrives in Gibraltar amid tension with Spain (Reuters)

Turkey cancels MILGEM project following probe (Jane's) CV32: The article cites a probable hydrogen leak from charging batteries but another (Indian) source had stated that battery charging had been completed three days prior to the incident.

Turkey, NATO the USA and Israel (Flight Global, Ariel View blog)

Presented at Le Bourget, at this time only in development: newsmbda-introduces-cvs302-hoplite-indirect-precision-attack-missile

Upgraded Nuclear Cruiser to Rejoin Russian Navy in 2018 (RIA Novosti)

Russia to Scrap Worlds Biggest Nuclear Subs (RIA Novosti)

Spangdahlem AB Airmen Launch Final A-10 Sortie In Europe (Defense Aerospace)

Germany axes Euro Hawk drone program (DefenseNews)

From Aviation Week, Ares blog

Three Russian Nuke Subs to Be Recommissioned in 2013 (RIA Novosti) They are: Project 949A (Oscar II) Smolensk (K-410) and Tomsk (K-150) Project 971 (Imp Akula I) Kuzbass (K-419)

Frances 2013 Defense White Paper (Livre Blanc) formally ends Frances plans for a 2nd aircraft carrier. (Defense Industry Daily)