{"id":124216,"date":"2026-07-07T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/124216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:49:23","slug":"denmark-to-buy-two-maritime-patrol-aircraft-from-boeing-defence-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/124216\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark to buy two maritime patrol aircraft from Boeing, defence ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">July 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Denmark will buy two P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol \u200caircraft from Boeing, the country&#8217;s \u200cdefence ministry said on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Denmark said last September \u200bit was considering acquiring submarine-hunting maritime patrol aircraft to strengthen surveillance around the Faroe Islands and Greenland.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">&#8220;With maritime \u200cpatrol aircraft, \u2060Denmark&#8217;s ability to enforce sovereignty and monitor the region is \u2060significantly strengthened,&#8221; Defence Minister Jeppe Bruus said in a statement, adding \u200bthe aircraft \u200bwould help \u200bDenmark meet NATO \u200ccapability targets in anti-submarine warfare.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The government gave no figures on the value of the deal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for U.S. \u200ccontrol of Greenland, \u200ba semi-autonomous Danish territory, \u200bciting \u200bnational security concerns related to \u200cRussia and China. His \u200badministration \u200bhas also accused Denmark of not doing enough to safeguard Greenland \u200band the \u200cwider Arctic region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by Elviira \u200bLuoma, editing by Essi Lehto \u200band Sharon Singleton)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Denmark will buy two P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol \u200caircraft from Boeing, the country&#8217;s \u200cdefence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[12556,27,28548,26,57,60952],"class_list":["post-124216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-boeing","tag-danmark","tag-defence-ministry","tag-denmark","tag-greenland","tag-maritime-patrol-aircraft"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116878781010604990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124216","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=124216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}