WASHINGTON --- Aerospace giant Boeing on Wednesday reported almost $500 million in additional losses for its program to develop two new planes for the...
PENTAGON --- The United States is providing up to $150 million in additional military aid for Ukraine in a package expected as soon as Wednesday, three...

US Can Support AUKUS Submarine Builds: Pentagon
Oct. 26, 2023
WASHINGTON --- The trilateral defense agreement among Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States is historic and is part of generational change...

The Impact of the Oct. 15 General Election on Poland’s Defence Ecosystem
Oct. 23, 2023
WARSAW --- A historic parliamentary election took place in Poland on 15 October with a record turnout of 74.4%, the highest since the fall of communism...
PARIS --- Symbol of the “Turkish new century” and the expansion of its defence industry on the export markets, the UAV (SiHA in Turkish) TB2, masterminded...

Will ATACMS Turn the Tide in Ukraine?
Oct. 20, 2023
The MGM-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) has entered combat, again. This time, the ATACMS is making its first appearance in Ukraine. This is ...
PARIS --- This past week, the German aerospace lobby (BDLI) and its current president, Airbus Defense and Space CEO Michael Schöllhorn, recalled that ...
Ukraine is ramping up its counter-offensive just as the US announces it has completed delivery of 31 M1 Abrams tanks ahead of schedule. Ukrainian tank...
Over $9 billion will be spent into the next decade on the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) program, a sweeping R&D effort of the U.S. ...

Hungary: Rheinmetall's European Eldorado
Oct. 10, 2023
PARIS --- Since 2018, Hungary has become the Eldorado of Rheinmetall: year after year, the Düsseldorf-based defence group has clinched at least eight ...

Czech Cabinet Approves Order for 48 Derby Long-Range Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Oct. 26, 2023
PRAGUE --- At its meeting on Wednesday, the government cabinet was informed about the public contract for the procurement of 48 I-Derby Long Range...

NATO, Pentagon Call for Stronger Defense Industry
Oct. 26, 2023
WASHINGTON --- A resilient defense industrial base is critical to the Defense Department's ability to deter future conflict, the Pentagon's top acquisition...
WASHINGTON --- Aerospace giant Boeing on Wednesday reported almost $500 million in additional losses for its program to develop two new planes for the...
PENTAGON --- The United States is providing up to $150 million in additional military aid for Ukraine in a package expected as soon as Wednesday, three...

US Can Support AUKUS Submarine Builds: Pentagon
Oct. 26, 2023
WASHINGTON --- The trilateral defense agreement among Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States is historic and is part of generational change...
BRATISLAVA --- During today's handover ceremony at 11 Slovak Air Force Brigade (11 SVK AF Bde) Nitra, the Slovak Armed Forces have taken delivery of two...
ISTANBUL --- Türkiye’s pioneering drone maker said Wednesday it had successfully completed the latest high-speed roll test of its new unmanned combat ...
THE HAGUE --- The NATO fleet SNMCMG1 is intensifying patrols in the Baltic Sea. This is because 2 submarine cables between Estonia and Sweden have been...
BRUNSSUM, Netherlands --- NATO ended its largest and most complex computer-assisted, command post exercise of the 21st century on Oct. 19. Exercise...
Elbit Systems Sweden AB (Elbit Systems Sweden) was awarded a contract worth approximately $170 million to become the integration partner for the Swedish...
CANBERRA --- The Australian Government is committed to a potent, enduring and agile submarine capability, and will use an independent assurance activity...
NORDHOLZ, Germany --- Three new NH-90 multi-purpose Naval Transport Helicopter (NTH) took part in a major sea rescue operation in the North Sea for the...
BERN --– Federal Councilor Viola Amherd, head of the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sports (DDPS), welcomed Italian Defense Minister...

Littoral Combat Ship USS Savannah Fires SM-6 Missile
Oct. 26, 2023
USS Savannah (LCS 28) conducts a live-fire demonstration in the Eastern Pacific Ocean utilizing a containerized launching system that fired an SM-6...
SYDNEY, Australia --- Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One’s (USVDIV-1) unmanned surface vessels (USVs) Ranger, Mariner, Seahawk and Sea Hunter arrived...
YUMA PROVING GROUND, AZ --- Raytheon successfully demonstrated the capabilities of the Low, slow, small-unmanned aircraft Integrated Defense System, or...

Contract Launches European Patrol Corvette Program
Oct. 25, 2023
ROME --- On 24 October 2023, with a ceremony held at OCCAR premises in Rome, OCCAR (Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation) signed with a consortium...
KYIV --- The Joint-stock company Ukrainian Defense Industry and one of the world's leading defense manufacturers, the German company Rheinmetall AG,...
The Pentagon announced that a squadron of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft has arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility today. The aircraft...

US Approves $220 Million Sale of HIMARS to Latvia
Oct. 25, 2023
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Latvia of M142 High Mobility...

China Sacks 'Missing' Defense Minister
Oct. 25, 2023
BERLIN --- Chinese Defense Minister General Li Shangfu was removed from office, state media reported on Tuesday (see following story--Ed). No reason was...

HELSINKI --- Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has recovered a large anchor next to the site where a gas pipeline was damaged in the early...
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Japan of Rolling Airframe...
REDSTONE ARSENAL, ALA --- The Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP) recently delivered the first two T901 flight test engines for the Future...
Lockheed Martin has opted out of the USAF KC-135 Tanker Recapitalization competition, the company announced Oct. 23. Lockheed Martin and Airbus originally...
House of Commons Defence Committee Report on "UK Defence and the Indo-Pacific"
UK House of Commons Defence Committee
Oct. 24, 2023
CRS Report on Virginia-Class Submarine Program and AUKUS Submarine Proposal
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Oct. 24, 2023
Ukrainian Media in the Face of War: Legal regulations and experience
Polish Armed Forces - Academic Centre for Strategic Communication
Oct. 23, 2023
Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China
US Department of Defense
Oct. 20, 2023
Annual Report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) or UFOs
US Department of Defense / Office of the Director on Central Intelligence
Oct. 19, 2023
Inconsistent Congress: Analysis of the 2024 Defense Budget Request
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
Oct. 18, 2023
UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
UK Ministry of Defence
Oct. 18, 2023

NATO Military Chiefs on Next Steps for Alliance’s Defence Posture
Sep. 19, 2023
Russia’s illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is often referred to as a “wake-up” call for NATO and its Allies. The awakening, however, started ...
Today, we, the leaders of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States mark the second anniversary of the announcement of AUKUS. The first major...

BRUSSELS --- “We will work towards a European Defence Industry Strategy,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union...
Below is an extract from the Horizon 2047 roadmap signed by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Paris on...
Minister for Defence Procurement James Cartlidge delivered a Statement on the publication of the Ajax Lessons Learned Review, led by Clive Sheldon KC....
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