by | May 17, 2024 | Security
MERSIN, Turkey — Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar has delivered to Poland the final batch of Bayraktar TB2 combat systems ordered for $270 million, the company announced. Poland signed a deal in May 2021 for the drones and associated equipment. The contract...
by | May 17, 2024 | Security
HONOLULU – The U.S. Army’s 3rd Multidomain Task Force, headquartered in Hawaii, is getting officers from both Australia and the U.K. this summer and will work on advancing technology that’s. focus of the second pillar of the AUKUS pact, according to U.S. Army Pacific...
by | May 17, 2024 | Security
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Negotiations are underway between the German and Slovak governments to extend the lease of a KNDS repair hub in Slovakia for German- and French-made combat vehicles damaged in Ukraine, according to the manufacturer. In 2022, the Franco-German...
by | May 17, 2024 | Security
PARIS — The French Navy is turning to artificial intelligence to help its submariners detect enemy vessels in a growing sea of underwater sounds. The Navy’s acoustic recognition and interpretation center CIRA in Toulon is working with French startup Preligens on...
by | May 16, 2024 | Security
Since President Joe Biden announced during his State of the Union address that the U.S. military would build a humanitarian aid pier on the Gaza Strip, and that “no U.S. boots will be on the ground” in Gaza, Keith Robbins and other retired military logistics officers...
by | May 16, 2024 | Security
HONOLULU — America and its Pacific partners are building a network of land forces to deter those who would threaten regional stability, but there are four building blocks to make this joint effort a success, according to the head of U.S. Army forces in the area. Gen....
by | May 16, 2024 | Security
Lockheed Martin is running out of space to store undelivered F-35 Joint Strike Fighters as the jets’ upgrade effort remains behind schedule, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday. Furthermore, the F-35 program’s testing capacity...
by | May 16, 2024 | Security
The House on Thursday passed 224-187 a bill aimed at forcing President Joe Biden to reverse his recent hold on a shipment of some 3,500 air-to-ground munitions for Israel. Biden withheld the munitions transfer, which includes 2,000- and 500-pound bombs, in April in...
by | May 16, 2024 | Security
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — It was business as usual at Slovakia’s flagship defense fair here on Thursday, less than a day after the country’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and wounded in a town northeast of the capital. A strangely normal atmosphere reigned on the...
by | May 16, 2024 | Security
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday announced a $2 billion aid package for Ukraine largely intended to help the embattled country grow its indigenous defense capabilities and move away from Soviet-era equipment. The $2 billion in Ukraine Foreign Military...
