Denmark on Tuesday announced it was acquiring two Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft for maritime surveillance in the North Atlantic and in the strategic Arctic region around Greenland.<\/p>\n
The Scandinavian country\u2019s defence ministry noted in a statement that \u201cDenmark has a special responsibility for managing security and defence in the Arctic and the North Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe acquisition is a clear signal that we take our shared responsibilities in NATO seriously,\u201d said Minister of Defence Jeppe Bruus.<\/p>\n
Tensions have mounted around\u00a0Greenland\u00a0after President Donald Trump this year ramped up threats to annex the Danish autonomous territory to ensure US security.<\/p>\n
Trump in January backed down from several weeks of threats, announcing that he had reached a \u201cframework\u201d agreement on\u00a0Greenland\u00a0with NATO\u2019s secretary general, without giving details.<\/p>\n
US Vice President JD Vance last year accused\u00a0Denmark\u00a0of having neglected the security of its giant Arctic territory.<\/p>\n
In the ministry statement, Bruus stressed that Denmark had in recent years \u201cstrengthened the military presence,\u201d and that the new maritime patrol aircraft would \u201csignificantly\u201d enhance the country\u2019s ability \u201cto enforce sovereignty and conduct surveillance\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Danish ministry, which did not disclose the price of the purchase, noted that the US-made planes were equipped with \u201canti-submarine capabilities and the ability to identify and engage hostile naval vessels\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark on Tuesday announced it was acquiring two Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft for maritime surveillance in the North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,762,25832],"class_list":["post-124192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-international","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116878694535115516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}