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S.Korea, Indonesia in Last-Ditch Attempt to Resolve Fighter Jet Payments
SEOUL --- South Korea and Indonesia will hold what could be the final round of negotiations in the Southeast Asian country next week to address the latter's overdue payments for a joint fighter develo

US Approves $650M Sale of AMRAAM Missiles to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) an

South Korea to Create Space Force, Seeks to Develop National ‘Space Weapon’
SEOUL --- The Ministry of National Defense held the “Defense Space Power Development Promotion Evaluation Meeting” on November 3 (Wednesday) at 15:00, supervised by Defense Minister Seo Wook. “Thro

German Hesitations Imperil Tiger Mark 3 Upgrade and Bilateral Cooperation
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a new series of occasional articles posted in their authors’ original language, essentially to widen our readership but also avoiding any inadvertent misrepresent...

S.Korea, Indonesia in Last-Ditch Attempt to Resolve Fighter Jet Payments
SEOUL --- South Korea and Indonesia will hold what could be the final round of negotiations in the Southeast Asian country next week to address the latter's overdue payments for a joint fighter develo...

US Approves $650M Sale of AMRAAM Missiles to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) an...

South Korea to Create Space Force, Seeks to Develop National ‘Space Weapon’
SEOUL --- The Ministry of National Defense held the “Defense Space Power Development Promotion Evaluation Meeting” on November 3 (Wednesday) at 15:00, supervised by Defense Minister Seo Wook. “Thro...

US Navy Fires Commanders of Sub Dmaged in Underwater Collision
Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Aljilani as commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Cashin as Executive Officer, and Master Chief Sonar Technician Cory Rodgers a...

Leonardo Updates Progress of Tempest Next-Gen Fighter Program
The recent announcement that Leonardo has placed the latest in a series of contracts with UK-based aviation services company 2Excel to commence the next stage of the Tempest flight test aircraft (FTA)...

China Says New Pentagon Report Hypes 'Chinese Nuclear Threat' to Serve US Goals
The US Defense Department on Wednesday released its annual report on China's military development, which again hyped the "China threat theory," and discussed China's nuclear arsenal, claiming that the...

Greece Signs LOI for Possible Transfer of Dutch Naval Ships
In the margins of the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD), which was concluded on the 27th of October, Vice Adm. Aristeidis Alexopoulos the Greek defense ministry’s General Director...

French Defense Chief Publishes New Strategic Vision
The French armed forces are an essential player in the national defence and security strategy. I want them to be permanently ready to face a major conflict, acting in all environments and fields of...

After Afghanistan, Defense Contractors Shift Focus
The U.S. exit from Afghanistan is hurting the bottom lines of U.S. military contractors. “The pullout in Afghanistan, there's about a $75 million impact to full year revenue, not huge but meaningful,”...

New Zealand to Deploy Fifth P-3 Orion in Support of UN Sanctions
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Peeni Henare today announced that New Zealand will deploy a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion (P-3) aircraft in support of United Nati...

Norwegian Pension Fund Drops 14 Arms Companies on Ethical Grounds
OSLO --- Norway's largest pension fund KLP said on Thursday it would no longer invest in 14 major weapons makers and their suppliers, including Raytheon Technologies Corporation and Rolls-Royce. Th...

Israel Installs Early Warning Radar Aerostat in Country’s North
At the end of several years of development and production, the director of MAPAT, in cooperation with the Air Force and together with IAI, which serves as the main contractor for system development, b...

Russian Factory Goes Digital to Prepare for Su-57 Production
Fifth-generation technologies at the branch of JSC "Company" Sukhoi "Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yu.A. Gagarin” (part of PJSC “UAC” of the State Corporation Rostec) demanded a fundam...

Ultra Wins £65M Telecom Contract from UK Ministry of Defence
Ultra is delighted to announce the award of a new contract between Ultra and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence in the region of £65m, to be awarded in the current financial year, to undertake a s...

Dutch Air Force Launches 14 F-16 Fighters on Exercise
Fourteen F-16s trained yesterday to operate in larger formations. For this readiness exercise, the fighters flew a mission in the training areas above the North Sea. The aircraft of the last operat...

Belgian A400Ms Take Part in First International Exercise
From October 11 to 25, the 15th Airlift Wing participated in Airlift Block Training (ABT) in Pisa, Italy. It was the very first exercise of our Airbus A400M on foreign soil. During this period, the...

UK Hosts International Military Urban Exercise
Scientists at Dstl have led a unique urban military experiment, known as the Contested Urban Environment exercise (CUE2021). Robotic and autonomous systems to support logistics re-supply to deliver...

Collins Aerospace Leads Multi-Domain Operation Demo for US Military
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama --- Collins Aerospace – in collaboration with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Parry Labs, Tektonux and Palantir Technologies – successfully conducted a multi-domain oper...

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