by | Sep 11, 2023 | Security
ROME — As the trinational Global Combat Air Program fighter program accelerates, partners Japan, Italy and the U.K. are planning to define the sensor hardware to go onboard the jet by mid-2025 and form a new industrial joint venture to divide up work share, a senior...
by | Sep 10, 2023 | Security
LONDON — British lawmakers say the Royal Air Force now lacks capabilities across combat, air transport and early warning aircraft. A Ministry of Defence command paper in 2021 ordered cuts to aircraft numbers that are creating a combat air shortfall in jet numbers that...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
SANTIAGO, Chile — The Argentine government has finalized negotiations to buy four surplus P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force, meeting a requirement set in 2015 by the South American country’s Navy. The agreement was reached Aug. 31...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — Singapore’s upgraded F-16 fighter jets can now fire the Python-5 air-to-air missile, the country has confirmed. An information board showcasing the upgraded Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons for the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s open...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — North Korea has launched a new ballistic missile submarine believed to be capable of firing both ballistic and cruise missiles. State media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Sept. 6 launch ceremony for the submarine named Hero Kim...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
MILAN — Swedish defense company Saab has integrated its Barracuda camouflage net with a new feature that could transform how soldiers communicate by allowing selected radio frequencies to pass through the mesh. Camouflage screens provide essential concealment whether...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
This is the third story of a three-part series. Click here to read the first, and click here to read the second. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy expects the submarine-industrial base to start delivering attack submarines on time by 2028 — more than a decade after vendors...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — European nations will need a “new security architecture” on their continent once the war in Ukraine ends, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe should help lead the way, the U.S. envoy to the group said. “We are left in a...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — Since its founding in 2001, the Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation has managed more than a dozen joint defense programs for its six member nations — Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom — as well as several...
by | Sep 8, 2023 | Security
COLOGNE, Germany — Imagine a drone swarm so cunning it can overwhelm any air defense, or an air defense weapon so smart it can see through any drone swarm’s tactics. New investments in military equipment will soon lead to artificial intelligence-powered sniff tests to...
