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Defence correspondent | Danmarks Radio - Danish Broadcasting Corp. | Afghanistan veteran | 👉 mkor@dr.dk

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Worth watching whether this affects the presidential bromance between Putin and Trump.

06.03.2026 14:54 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Listening interested! I also noticed the smokescreen coming from Alsace in Copenhagen harbour thursday both morning and evening and I’m interested why? Why all the smoke, some kind of cooling, or…?

05.03.2026 12:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

(2/2) Earlier, Chairman Caine said cyber operations were methodically used to blind Iran’s defenses.
He added that the campaign has featured a series of “combat firsts” - new weapons and methods tested in real battle.

02.03.2026 13:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LIVE: Israel og USA er gået i krig med Iran Flere lande i Mellemøsten er blevet ramt af angreb, efter Israel og USA er gået i krig med Iran.

(1/2) At a press briefing on Operation Epic Fury, SecWar Hegseth confirmed that U.S. soldiers were killed when an Iranian missile penetrated and struck a reinforced tactical operations center.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

02.03.2026 13:45 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Skal vi huse atomvåben herhjemme? Ikke det mest sandsynlige, 'men det kan ikke udelukkes' Flere partier er åbne for diskussionen om, at atomvåben en dag kan stå på dansk jord.

Doubts over whether Denmark is truly covered by the U.S. nuclear umbrella are now opening an entirely new debate:

Should Denmark seek a role in European nuclear deterrence - or reconsider decades of restrictions on nuclear weapons on Danish soil?

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

01.03.2026 20:03 👍 46 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1

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And the final? 🏆

Postponed due to elections. 🗳️

We won’t see the winner of this Champions League final until after the March 24 election day.

Defense procurement - now with extra suspense. 😄

27.02.2026 20:47 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just like on the football pitch ⚽️, tackles were flying.

Spain hosted a reception on the helideck 🚁🔥

Fire pits along the quay and everything.

Meanwhile, 150 meters away, 🇫🇷’s deputy defense minister held a press conference aboard the FREMM frigate Alsace. Exact same time 😬

27.02.2026 20:47 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We got a tour onboard.
And if you were unsure whether you were on a Spanish warship…

…one look at the officers’ mess removes all doubt.

Sí. Jamón serrano 🐖🍖

27.02.2026 20:47 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Spain’s state-owned yard Navantia 🇪🇸 brought Cristóbal Colón - an air-defense frigate with SM-2 missiles 🚀 in the launchers and Lockheed Martin radar 📡 on top.

Subtle? Not exactly.

27.02.2026 20:47 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Yesterday’s matchup on the quay:
🇫🇷 vs. 🇪🇸

Two frigates side by side ⚓️⚓️

27.02.2026 20:47 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Denmark is about to buy new frigates worth billions 💰⚓️ - replacements for these 👇

Naturally, Europe’s major naval shipyards are now on charm offensives in Copenhagen.

🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪
Basically the Champions League semifinals - but with missiles 🚀

27.02.2026 20:47 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

Oh! Den lugt af diesel en frostkold morgen…

26.02.2026 20:56 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ha ha ha, ja. Sandt! Eller også noget med, at når du er til festival eller fodbold, Pia, og det endelig bliver din tur i bar-køen, så køb dobbelt portion. Du vil aldrig fortryde det!

26.02.2026 20:55 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Han vandt totalt “godt råd” runden med den “kun én gang i buffeten”. Det er smerteligt men manden har jo ret.

26.02.2026 20:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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An overlooked but notable detail in Denmark’s new economic plan:

All proceeds from the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Argentina will be donated to Ukraine.

That’s 1.8 billion DKK (€241m / $270m) over four years.

#Denmark #F16 #Defense #Argentina

26.02.2026 20:28 👍 82 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

Over 11 years - from 2024 to 2035 - Danish governments will have allocated a total of 717 billion DKK to defence and security 🇩🇰🛡️

Is this the largest compressed investment in a single sector in Danish history? 🤔📊

25.02.2026 15:36 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Four years of war in Ukraine.
Four years of unimaginable suffering.
Four years of reporting on how all our lives changed - Ukrainians’ most of all.
Tonight, we took stock in DR’s TV Avisen late night news 🇩🇰🇺🇦

24.02.2026 21:23 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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From 2030, Denmark will meet NATO’s 3.5% of GDP target on pure military spending.

Between 2027–2029, spending will already reach 3.41–3.47% of GD.

Effectively at the threshold.

24.02.2026 16:03 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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Including the new funding, Denmark plans to spend around 120 billion DKK annually (€16.1bn / $18bn) on core defense.

That’s nearly three times the annual budgets before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

24.02.2026 16:03 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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Denmark is dramatically increasing defense spending in a new economic plan.

An additional 250 billion DKK (€33.5bn / $37.5bn) is being added to the current roadmap.

252 billion DKK (€33.8bn / $37.8bn) over the longer term.

24.02.2026 16:03 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Kommunerne efterlyser klar plan fra regeringen: 'Vi mangler simpelthen svar på, hvem gør hvad?' Kommunernes Landsforening er kommet med ti punkter, hvis det skal lykkes at komme i mål med et velfungerende totalberedskab.

Denmark is moving toward a full “total defense” model - where all of society must be ready for crisis.

But municipalities warn key questions remain unanswered:

Who communicates? Who protects the vulnerable?

More in the article by @tobiaslethklinge.bsky.social below.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

23.02.2026 19:59 👍 28 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
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Jord-droner hjælper ukrainere på slagmarken Det er snart fire år siden, krigen i Ukraine begyndte. Og nu er små pansrede og ubemandede køretøjer, kaldet "jord-droner", i hastig fremmarch på fronten. Oleksandr Jabtjanka er bataljonchef i Ukraine...

“I used to prescribe penicillin to kill bacteria. Now I do something similar to the Russians.”

Meet Oleksandr Jabtjanka - former pediatrician, now a battalion commander with the 🇺🇦 DaVinci Wolves, currently in Denmark teaching soldiers the realities of drone warfare.

www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

09.02.2026 20:44 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Okay, wow — this clip… 👌😳
Nearly cinematic in its framing… and that delayed “brrr” from the F-16 autocannon. Potentially one of the Danish-donated aircraft 🇩🇰🇺🇦

08.02.2026 20:01 👍 63 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Det er en episk sag lige at hive op fra arkivet dér! Han er næsten lige så passioneret som dem jeg har i min indbakke efter at have sagt “larvefødder”.

06.02.2026 15:11 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Nej. Enig. Ikke sikker på den glider let ned.

06.02.2026 09:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Denmark has now passed NATO’s 3.5% of GDP benchmark for 2026.

The threshold was crossed with a 3 billion DKK (€402m / $450m) donation to 🇺🇦, bringing Denmark’s total 🇺🇦 support this year to 13 billion DKK (€1.74bn / $1.95bn).

Imagine if the rest of Europe mirrored Denmark’s level of support.

06.02.2026 09:38 👍 315 🔁 55 💬 7 📌 4

Not every layer of an integrated air-defense system has to cost billions - or take four years to deliver.

05.02.2026 21:49 👍 91 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
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Stort flertal ser nu USA som modstander - ikke som allieret Kun 17 procent af danskerne betragter USA som en allieret.

Nearly five years of Trump in the White House have strained Denmark’s ties with its closest ally.
A new Epinion poll for DR shows 60% of Danes now see the U.S. as an opponent, while only 17% view it as an ally.
20% are unsure; 3% declined to answer.
www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

03.02.2026 12:51 👍 40 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0

Ja, såre sandt. Jeg tror det er ment ud fra tanken om, at frivillighed er at foretrække. Men som Rasmus Brun siger, så er værnepligten jo i sidste taknemmelig at arbejde med :-)

30.01.2026 13:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ja det er jo så det. Er der flere teltflager på lager?

30.01.2026 08:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0