by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army command that oversees modernization has been without a leader for more than nine months after officials worried the front-runner for the job would not get approval from Congress because he allegedly had reservations about deploying the...
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
KIELCE, Poland — Poland’s Ministry of National Defence has awarded a contract worth more than 3.8 billion zloty ($800 million) to buy 48 Krab 155mm self-propelled howitzers and related gear from local company Huta Stalowa Wola, a subsidiary of the country’s defense...
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
DARWIN, Australia — Singapore is considering buying another F-35 variant despite already selecting and receiving U.S. approval for the “B” version, which can take off from short runways and land vertically, according to a top official with the procurement effort....
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
DARWIN, Australia — Japan and South Korea have both sent combat aircraft to Australia for the first time to take part in a large multinational air combat exercise. The South Korean Air Force sent six upgraded F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighters to northern...
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
KATHERINE, Australia — U.S. and British personnel joined a Royal Australian Air Force crew to train on the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft as part of a multinational air combat exercise here in northern Australia. Speaking to media...
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
WASHINGTON — Gen. Mark Milley confronted a daunting challenge when he became chief of staff of the Army in 2015. Virtually all of the Army’s recent modernization efforts — from the sprawling Future Combat Systems program, centered around a network that connected new...
by | Sep 6, 2022 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Poland is embarking on a journey to accelerate defense procurement programs to ensue its forces are not using Soviet-era or Russian gear. That effort has seen decision-makers in Warsaw grow the defense fund to buy weapons and increase the size of its...
by | Sep 5, 2022 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — Spanish and German missile manufacturers are leading an effort to develop a new hypersonic defense interceptor as part of the European Defence Fund’s initial batch of sponsored projects. In July, the European Union announced the awardees of its...
by | Sep 4, 2022 | Security
STUTTGART, Germany — The past four years have proved fruitful for Lockheed Martin in Europe, as six nations have hitched their wagons to the American company’s fifth-generation F-35 fighter jet. Despite calls from French leaders for its neighbors to “buy European,”...
by | Sep 2, 2022 | Security
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s navy seized two American sea drones in the Red Sea before letting them go Friday as U.S. warships neared, officials said, in the latest maritime incident involving the Navy’s new drone fleet in the Mideast. Iranian state television...
