by | Dec 1, 2022 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — Japan’s prime minister has asked his Cabinet to secure enough funds to raise defense spending to 2% of gross domestic product in five years, continuing a recent trend of increasing the defense budget, according to the country’s defense minister....
by | Nov 30, 2022 | Security
MILAN, Italy — Hungarian official have signaled an interest in the Israel-made Iron Dome system, with radar components expected to arrive early next year that could fit into the air-defense weapon’s architecture. Hungarian President Katalin Novák and Defense Minister...
by | Nov 29, 2022 | Security
A new report from the Pentagon details China’s more provocative and aggressive actions toward Taiwan, but Defense Department officials say those actions do not mean an invasion will happen soon. The annual China Military Power Report sent to Congress this week noted...
by | Nov 29, 2022 | Security
LONDON — The British government’s budget watchdog says a newly published Ministry of Defence ten-year equipment plan is affordable but fails to account for the country’s difficult economic situation. “While the plan continues to serve a useful purpose in reporting to...
by | Nov 29, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The Defense Intelligence Agency is pulling together a group of analysts and experts to monitor competition with China, a world power Pentagon officials consider the leading threat to U.S. national security. John Kirchhofer, the DIA’s chief of staff, on...
by | Nov 29, 2022 | Security
BEERSHEBA, Israel — Israel’s new cyber defense training school is set inside a high-tech park in the southern city of Beersheba. Opened in August, the modern campus is part of the J6 and Cyber Defense Directorate, and it’s part of a broader move by the Israel Defense...
by | Nov 28, 2022 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — China appears to be fitting indigenous engines on its Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark, a carrier-borne fighter jet. Footage shown Nov. 17 on state-owned broadcaster CCTV showed a People’s Liberation Army Navy J-15 with the afterburner nozzles of the...
by | Nov 28, 2022 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Ministry of National Defence has effectively turned down Germany’s offer, for now, to deploy air defense systems along the neighbor’s border with Ukraine. Officials here initially initially accepted Berlin’s gesture for Patriot launchers...
by | Nov 23, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said it will send Ukraine up to $400 million in artillery ammunition, weapons and supplies in its latest drawdown package to help the nation defend itself against Russia. The security assistance package announced Wednesday includes more...
by | Nov 23, 2022 | Security
A Russian shipyard producing Karakurt-class ships for the country’s Navy is facing potential financial hardship after new lawsuits from the Defence Ministry and a series of creditors. On Nov. 15, an arbitration court in Moscow held the first preliminary hearing for a...
