by | Jan 23, 2023 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced his country will request Germany’s approval for the planned transfer of some of its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Poland is also in talks with a group of Western European nations, including the...
by | Jan 21, 2023 | Security
LONDON — Britain has taken delivery of the first of two undersea surveillance ships tasked with helping protect vital cables and pipelines from sabotage, the Ministry of Defence has announced. The 6,000-ton ship will become operational starting this summer after the...
by | Jan 20, 2023 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — Seven months after declaring the launch of a new “war economy” in France, President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled plans to spend hundreds of billions of euros on defense investments that will “transform” the military over the next decade. The...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
ARLINGTON, Va. — Ingalls Shipbuilding has enough contractual orders to keep its workforce and suppliers busy for the next few years, but the situation becomes more uncertain beyond that time frame, according to the shipyard’s president. The yard may see a “lull” in...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
This week the U.K. announced it would be the first country to send Ukraine modern Western main battle tanks. The number of Challenger 2s heading to Ukraine is small – a company of 14 tanks – but the strategic effect of this decision could be very large if it achieves...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Germany’s newly appointed defense minister, Boris Pistorius, on Thursday to push Berlin to approve the transfer of German-made tanks for Ukraine to fight Russia’s invasion. Germany won’t send or authorize the...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament has passed a budget that sustains a high level of defense spending, despite the country’s economic troubles as leader Kim Jong Un pushes for an aggressive expansion of his nuclear arsenal. State media reports...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
A 35-year-old former program administrator for a nonprofit space research company pleaded guilty to a charge that he illegally funneled payments for Army aviation technology that he then exported to a China-based university. From 2016 to 2020, Jonathan Yet Wing Soong...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON ― Weeks before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western officials agreed to send a flurry of offensive armored vehicles to Ukraine’s battlefields that they previously refused to deliver for fear of provoking Russia — heralding a new...
by | Jan 19, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington on Wednesday to secure a $20 billion arms sale that includes 40 Lockheed Martin Block 70 F-16 fighter jets as well as upgrades to Turkey’s current F-16...
