by | Oct 4, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden will need congressional approval for any concessions Saudi Arabia is seeking in exchange for normalizing ties with Israel, and he may have a hard time winning support from many Senate Democrats. A group of 20 Senate Democrats sent a...
by | Oct 4, 2023 | Security
Jerusalem – Azerbaijan’s space agency, Azercosmos, acquired two multi-spectral electro-optical spy satellites from Israel Aerospace Industries as part of the Azersky-2 program. The Azeri Agency and the Tel Aviv area-based company did not disclose the satellite...
by | Oct 4, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — More than one million Iranian rounds of munitions that were seized by the U.S. military late last year have been sent to Ukraine to assist the effort repel Russia’s invasion, Central Command said. The seizure occurred as Iran was sending weapons to Houthi...
by | Oct 4, 2023 | Security
SAO PAULO — Brazilian missile-maker Avibras has partnered with Spanish defense firm New Technologies Global Systems to compete for a contract that would see Spain’s military acquire mobile multiple rocket launchers, the businesses announced Sept. 26. The Spanish...
by | Oct 4, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — It’s been called an “entirely new breed of U.S. Navy warship” and a “lemon.” A “mothership” for unmanned systems and “the wrong ship at the wrong time.” A cornerstone of the Navy’s “transformation” and the “little crappy ship.” This is the littoral combat...
by | Oct 3, 2023 | Security
VICTORIA, British Columbia — Canada is deploying tanks on an overseas mission for the first time in more than a decade, but the future for the country’s armored fleet remains uncertain. The first of 15 Canadian Leopard 2 tanks are expected to arrive in Latvia in...
by | Oct 3, 2023 | Security
Now that Ukraine is in line to receive F-16s, opinions surrounding their effectiveness span from being counterproductive to war-winning for Ukraine. While most discussions have focused on the fighters’ air-to-air performance and the platform itself, the broader effect...
by | Oct 3, 2023 | Security
Warsaw, Poland – While Western support to provide military aid to Ukraine has been steadfast over the last nineteenth months, a number of European states appear to be having a change of heart, opting to now prioritize domestic issues. Is European support for Ukraine...
by | Oct 2, 2023 | Security
The latest U.S. Space Force Base is located northern Greenland, 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It sits on land the indigenous Inuit call Pituffik. The site has been strategically critical to the U.S. since the Second World War when Greenland was a Danish colony...
by | Oct 2, 2023 | Security
LONDON — The British Government has committed nearly £4 billion, or $4.9 billion, to the next phase in the development of nuclear-powered submarines as part of the tri-national AUKUS program with Australia and the United States. BAE Systems, Babcock Marine and...
