by | Sep 30, 2024 | Security
MELBOURNE, Australia — As Australia’s military adjusts to recommendations contained in last year’s Strategic Defence Review, there is a demand for lighter vehicles better suited operations in coastal areas. First out of the gate in what could be a shopping spree for...
by | Sep 30, 2024 | Security
PARIS — The Netherlands secured spending of about €1 billion ($1.1 billion) on Dutch companies as part of its multibillion-euro purchase of four attack submarines from France’s Naval Group, the Dutch Ministry of Defence said. Dutch State Secretary of Defence Gijs...
by | Sep 30, 2024 | Security
PARIS — The European Union officially opened its defense-innovation office in Kyiv earlier this month, as the bloc seeks to boost cooperation between the Ukrainian and European defense industries. The office is part of Europe’s defense industrial strategy adopted in...
by | Sep 29, 2024 | Security
Ukraine’s innovative drones are damaging forces and war-supporting industry across western and southern Russia. In a visit to the White House on Sept. 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for more help for long-range strikes. He received modest...
by | Sep 28, 2024 | Security
Satellite imagery showed that China’s newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank alongside a pier while under construction, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday. The sinking of China’s first Zhou-class submarine represents a setback for Beijing as it...
by | Sep 28, 2024 | Security
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed on Saturday that its leader and one of its founders, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day. A statement said Nasrallah “has joined his fellow martyrs.” Hezbollah vowed to “continue the holy...
by | Sep 27, 2024 | Security
PARIS — The boom in space activity of the past few years has made Earth’s orbit more crowded and dynamic, and Western militaries need to step up space awareness to counter growing threats in the domain, defense officials and space company executives said. Commercial...
by | Sep 27, 2024 | Security
ROME — Chinese officials have been accused of plotting to dodge UN sanctions and smuggle military grade drones to a Libyan warlord using COVID-19 assistance as cover. Chinese state officials allegedly conspired to seal the planned $1 billion deal to send 42 drones to...
by | Sep 26, 2024 | Security
MILAN — The Lithuanian government will supply thousands of locally-made, first-person-view drones to the Ukrainian and Lithuanian armed forces as part of a major investment in a low-cost capability that is reshaping modern combat. The Lithuanian Ministry of National...
by | Sep 26, 2024 | Security
NORFOLK, Virginia — Rob Bauer was in a joking mood. The admiral chairs NATO’s Military Committee, which makes him the alliance’s top military official. This week he was in Norfolk for a change of command. Wearing his white dress uniform with an ornate saber, he spoke...
