{"id":40843,"date":"2026-06-08T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/belgium-will-invest-4-2-billion-in-defense-innovation-under-the-new-program\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:00:23","slug":"belgium-will-invest-4-2-billion-in-defense-innovation-under-the-new-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/belgium-will-invest-4-2-billion-in-defense-innovation-under-the-new-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium will invest $4.2 billion in defense innovation under the new program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/thumbs_b_c_fc4448583ccaa3dd546fed1e0a31769d.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Belgium will invest 3.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in defense innovation between 2026 and 2035 under a new program called ODIN, Defense Minister Theo Francken announced Monday, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is designed to accelerate the development of new technologies for the Belgian armed forces, while also supporting the country&#8217;s defense industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news agency report. Belgian, ODIN is part of the wider Defense, Industry and Research Strategy (DIRS), a long-term framework developed since 2022 by the Royal High Institute for Defense and Economics of the Federal Public Service. According to this strategy, 350 million euros will be spent every year on research, innovation and industrial production.<\/p>\n<p>Francken said that the aim is to give faster practical results from defense investment. &#8220;This is not about plans on paper. It is about investing 3.7 billion euros in a focused way over the next few years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the investment aims to modernize Belgium&#8217;s military capabilities and strengthen its position within the growing European defense sector.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium will invest 3.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in defense innovation between 2026 and 2035 under a new program called ODIN, Defense Minister Theo Francken announced Monday, Anadolu reports. The initiative is designed to accelerate the development of new technologies for the Belgian armed forces, while also supporting the country&#8217;s defense industry. According to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-40843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":14,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40845,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40843\/revisions\/40845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}