by | Dec 21, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The State Department on Wednesday announced the United States will provide Ukraine a Patriot missile defense system as part of the latest $1.85 billion tranche of military aid for Kyiv to defend against Russia’s invasion. The announcement came as...
by | Dec 21, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The Taiwan Policy Act contained $4.5 billion in military aid for Taipei when Bob Menendez of New Jersey and James Risch of Idaho – the Democratic chairman and top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee first introduced the bill in August with the...
by | Dec 20, 2022 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced the S-400 air defense systems and Iskander missiles the country has received from Russia have been put “on combat duty.” The move comes as analysts are seeing Moscow’s rising pressure on Minsk to...
by | Dec 20, 2022 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan has committed to acquiring long-range weapons and to continue increasing its defense budget as part of its latest National Security Strategy, citing regional threats as the driving force behind its decision. The government released its...
by | Dec 20, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — Congress on Tuesday released its fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill that includes $27.9 billion in emergency U.S. Department of Defense spending for Ukraine on top of a $69.3 billion budget increase for the Pentagon over FY 22 levels. The bill funds the 8%...
by | Dec 17, 2022 | Security
ROME — Italian ship yard Fincantieri is set to boost its naval business thanks to war-driven defense budgets and has its sights on business opportunities that could total €20 billion euros in the next five years, the shipyard’s recently appointed CEO said on Friday....
by | Dec 16, 2022 | Security
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Friday its latest round of sanctions will hit Russia’s military-industrial complex, as well as people and groups that are attacking Ukrainian civilians or kidnapping children. Valdis Dombrovskis, a European Commission...
by | Dec 16, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON ― Lithuania and the U.S. government have finalized a $495 million deal for as many as eight M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, the Lithuanian government announced Friday. The deal includes Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, which have a...
by | Dec 16, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 83-11 on Friday to authorize an 8% defense budget increase over fiscal 2022 levels. The FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act adds $45 billion to what the White House requested in its defense budget proposal. The $858 billion NDAA —...
by | Dec 15, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON ― Several top appropriators are pushing to offer loans to Taiwan to finance as much as $10 billion in military aid authorized in the annual defense bill as a way to alleviate budget pressure on the State Department, which oversees the Foreign Military...
