The Air Force's UH-60 Black Hawks took part in 56 firefighting missions this year, flying more than 200 hours and making over 900 water drops. The Defence Minister expects two C-130s with firefighting kits in 2027 and Canadair water bombers in 2029 and 2030.
The Defence Minister says a new version of the fitness tables is coming. His predecessor's order, which also stopped some chronic illnesses from ruling candidates out, was approved but never took effect.
The state defence holding idD and the Italian shipbuilder will take over the struggling yard under a sub-concession, in a transition of about a year tied to Portugal's frigate purchase.
IPMA places seven districts under aviso amarelo from 09:00 Saturday 21 June to 18:00 Sunday 22 June as inland maximums push 40°C; 23 concelhos shift to perigo máximo de incêndio and the Defence and Interior ministries stand up a Monte Real operations centre.
With NATO's 24-26 June Hague summit pressing allies toward a 5%-of-GDP defence-spending pledge, Portugal's posture sits inside the LPM 2024-2033 envelope, the OE2027 cativações carve-out and Nuno Melo's repeated rejection of a separate European army track.
The Portuguese government will close its national strategic document for the European Union's Cooperação Estruturada Permanente (PESCO) within the next seven days and hand it simultaneously to the European Defence Agency in Brussels and to the...
Defence Minister Nuno Melo told reporters at the EU defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday 12 May 2026 that he is 'tendentially against' a European army, lining Portugal up behind a strengthened NATO European pillar instead of the Spanish push for an autonomous EU force.
