Global for Friday, April 5, 2024

• Australian companies increasingly look to US following AUKUS pact
• Norway’s Long-Term Defense Plan features sharp increase in spending
• Italian leaders scramble to reverse military headcount shrinkage
• Air defense, tanks top Dutch military's wish list
• Poland, Italy are unfazed by F-35 upgrade snags
• US restarts third set of military-to-military talks with China
• Ukrainian forces rig machine gun networks to down Russian drones