by | Jul 25, 2023 | Security
ANKARA — Two of Turkey’s state-controlled defense companies will showcase new systems for air defense and unmanned ground combat at the IDEF 23 exhibition in Istanbul this week. Military electronics specialist Aselsan, Turkey’s biggest defense firm, said July 23 that...
by | Jul 24, 2023 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan and South Korea conducted missile and rocket launches on Australian soil over the weekend for the first time during a multinational military exercise also involving the United States. Japan fired a Type 03 medium-range surface-to-air...
by | Jul 21, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — Adm. Lisa Franchetti was five weeks into leading U.S. 6th Fleet when she oversaw the first-ever Tomahawk missile strike by a Virginia-class attack submarine. Days after Syrian President Bashar Assad launched a chemical weapons attack on his people in...
by | Jul 21, 2023 | Security
Early in the military career of recently retired Marine Gen. David Berger, he and his wife, Donna, whom he had met when they were in sixth grade, made a promise to each other. The young officer would get out of the Corps if he ever had three bad days in a row, he told...
by | Jul 21, 2023 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — The Slovenian Ministry of Defence has amended its acquisition program for the years 2023 to 2026, declaring plans to buy six multipurpose helicopters and a C-27J Spartan tactical transport aircraft for the country’s military. The planned aircraft...
by | Jul 21, 2023 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — The first of four German-built diesel-electric attack submarines has arrived in Singapore, the Southeast Asian nation’s Defence Ministry announced. The Impeccable was received at Singapore’s RSS Singapura—Changi Naval Base on Thursday during a...
by | Jul 20, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON ― The Senate intends to provide Taiwan with grants to purchase more U.S. military equipment, but the chamber’s bill sets up a showdown with Republican House appropriators who want even more money for the nation while slashing the overall foreign aid budget....
by | Jul 20, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy leveraged air and surface drones throughout its two-week UNITAS 2023 naval exercise near Latin America, the first major event since service leadership announced the region would host the sea service’s second unmanned operations hub....
by | Jul 20, 2023 | Security
COLOGNE, Germany — Hungary is maintaining its appetite for Rheinmetall products with an order for Hero loitering munitions that the German company markets in Europe in conjunction with Israeli firm UVision. The order for the munitions — drones with warheads,...
by | Jul 20, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has approved a sale to Germany of air-to-air missiles worth an estimated $2.9 billion. The possible foreign military sale would see Germany receive up to 969 AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles and related...
