by | Aug 29, 2024 | Security
FORT WORTH, Texas — Polish defense leaders got at sneak peek at the country’s first F-35A combat jet on Wednesday during an unveiling ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s manufacturing site here. Warsaw ordered 32 of the fifth-generation planes more than four years ago. The...
by | Aug 29, 2024 | Security
WARSAW — The Slovak government has approved the purchase six Barak MX air defense systems with related equipment for an estimated €554 million ($615 million), according to the country’s deputy prime minister and defense minister, Robert Kaliňák. Slovakia and Israel...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana — A series of experiments with available technology and new unit configurations being tested in Louisiana will shape the future of brigade combat teams and how they deploy to tomorrow’s fights. In early August, the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
President Joe Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza this year even as some at the U.S. Agency for International Development expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to accomplish and undercut the effort to...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
SCRANTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand, with more capacity set to come on line. Government officials revealed the increase in...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
MOBILE, Ala. — Austal USA, an Alabama-based shipbuilder that makes vessels for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. From 2013 through...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
CHRISTCHURCH, News Zealand — Australia and the local subsidiary of Norway-based Kongsberg will establish a new missile production in the country, as the company joins other global munitions players in a multibillion-dollar, local push to ramp up munitions production....
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
ROME — Japanese military officials have been invited on board an Italian aircraft carrier visiting Japan to see how F-35Bs operate from naval vessels as part of growing defense ties between Rome and Tokyo. As Japan gets set to receive the first of 42 purchased F-35Bs...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The Royal Thai Air Force has nominated the Gripen E/F fighter jet to replace the country’s aging F-16A/Bs in a hard-fought contest involving Saab and Lockheed Martin, officials announced on Tuesday. A service committee deliberated for ten...
by | Aug 28, 2024 | Security
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones across Ukraine for a second day on Tuesday, including some that Ukraine’s president said were shot down by Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets before they reached their targets. The onslaught killed at least...
