by | Feb 21, 2023 | Security
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Multi-year negotiations for the United Arab Emirates to procure MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones are in their late stages, executives from manufacturer General Atomics said in an interview at the IDEX arms fair here. David Alexander,...
by | Feb 21, 2023 | Security
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States — sharply upping the ante amid tensions with Washington over the fighting in...
by | Feb 20, 2023 | Security
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — In a rare setting, for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, both Russian and Ukrainian companies are exhibiting their weapons in close proximity to each other at the IDEX and NAVDEX exhibitions. Russia,...
by | Feb 20, 2023 | Security
Kyiv, Ukraine (AP) — President Joe Biden paid an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a defiant display of Western solidarity with a country still fighting what he called “a brutal and unjust war” days before the first...
by | Feb 20, 2023 | Security
MILAN, Italy — Manufacturers of counter-drone weaponry say they are increasingly miniaturizing and simplifying their solutions to meet rising demand for man-portable weapons, as recent conflicts have accentuated the importance of mobile capabilities. Man-portable,...
by | Feb 18, 2023 | Security
Ukrainian troops wrapped up the first rotation of battalion combined-arms training at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria’s Grafenwoehr training area in Germany this week, the Pentagon announced Friday. Training focused on the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle, a Pentagon spokesman...
by | Feb 17, 2023 | Security
JERUSALEM — An Israeli defense company has inaugurated a new facility in the United Arab Emirates, and plans to show off a high-energy laser weapon to attendees of the IDEX conference, taking place in Abu Dhabi this month. The head of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems,...
by | Feb 17, 2023 | Security
Watching Ukrainian resistance to Russia, some say the U.S. military needs to embrace a defense-dominant approach to aerial warfare centered on large numbers of small, short-range, inexpensive drones. In their view, the U.S. should move away from small inventories of...
by | Feb 17, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has approved a possible foreign military sale to the Netherlands for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, according to a Thursday statement from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Under the deal, the Netherlands would...
by | Feb 16, 2023 | Security
MOSCOW — Russia this year will likely step up its presence in the Barents Sea and the Atlantic Ocean while lengthening its submarine deployments, according to a new Norwegian intelligence report. The Norwegian Intelligence Service released its annual report on Feb....
