by | May 17, 2023 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — The Commission for Defense, Public Order and National Security in Romania’s Chamber of Deputies, the parliament’s lower chamber, has approved the National Defence Ministry’s request to allow the purchase of 54 used M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 tanks from the...
by | May 17, 2023 | Security
MADRID — Airbus Spain is ready to start work on the high-endurance drone SiRTAP for the Spanish and Colombian air forces, saying the first units could be delivered to Spain by 2026 if the government approves a contract soon. Launched in 2015, following an initial...
by | May 17, 2023 | Security
Congress and the nation’s military leaders have perennially expressed frustration with the “valley of death,” the abyss where promising new technologies too often meet their demise before they can be transitioned into major defense programs. The competitively awarded...
by | May 17, 2023 | Security
North Korean state media circulated images of leader Kim Jong Un’s inspection of what it said was a spy satellite due to launch soon. SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’a leader examined a finished military spy satellite, which his country is expected to launch...
by | May 17, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — Colin Kahl, who has served for two years as the Pentagon’s policy chief under the Biden administration, will resign this summer. Kahl, who the Senate confirmed as undersecretary of defense for policy in a party-line vote in April 2021, will return to his...
by | May 16, 2023 | Security
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to expand the country’s nonlethal aid to Ukraine when he met the European country’s first lady Tuesday in Seoul. Olena Zelenska visited South Korea as a special envoy of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy....
by | May 16, 2023 | Security
MOSCOW — The lower house of Russia’s parliament on Tuesday voted unanimously to formally pull out of a key Cold War-era security deal, more than eight years after Moscow halted its participation. The vote in the State Duma came less than a week after President...
by | May 16, 2023 | Security
TOKYO — The Japanese and Chinese defense ministers inaugurated their long-awaited hotline on Tuesday as a step to build trust and improve communication at a time when Japan and other neighbors are concerned about Beijing’s increasingly assertive military activities....
by | May 16, 2023 | Security
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel and Montenegro entered into a government-to-government contract that will see Israel’s Elbit Systems supply mortar systems and training equipment to the Balkan nation. The deal, valued at €20 million (U.S. $21.8 million), is the latest...
by | May 15, 2023 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — France has tested the VSR700 vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial system demonstrator for the first time, marking a key milestone in the development of the nation’s next-generation maritime drone. Aircraft developer Airbus and France’s...
