by | Feb 14, 2025 | Security
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that, eventually, he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump...
by | Feb 13, 2025 | Security
Japan has ordered 17 of the latest variant of the Boeing-manufactured CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter, the company said Thursday. The CH-47 Block II Chinook is an extended-range version of the aircraft that is used by the U.S. Army and U.S. Special Operations Command....
by | Feb 13, 2025 | Security
The Defense Department wants to reform how it sells weapons to foreign countries, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday. The U.S. foreign military sales, or FMS, process involves years of back-and-forth between the U.S. and countries interested in buying...
by | Feb 13, 2025 | Security
PARIS — Artificial intelligence is massively accelerating military decision making, and armed forces that don’t keep up risk being outmatched, the NATO commander in charge of strategic transformation at the alliance said at the AI Action Summit in Paris this week....
by | Feb 13, 2025 | Security
ROME — Saudi Arabia can gain the industrial know-how it needs to participate in the GCAP fighter program by first setting up assembly lines for NH90 helicopters and Eurofighters, a senior Italian industrial official has said. The Gulf kingdom needs to improve its...
