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Older thread on subject: https://defencehub.live/threads/xinjiang%E2%80%99s-system-of-militarized-vocational-training-comes-to-tibet.1233/

@Paro @krptonite we were just talking about this kinda stuff heh but with navy side:

@Vergennes et al.

http://www.canadiandefencereview.com/news?news/2984 Canada’s Halifax-class multi-role patrol frigates are the backbone of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Making sure that these ships have and maintain modern equipment is key to ensuring our navy can continue its important work. Today, Defence...

Soldiers from 3 SCOTS have been on exercise in the far south-west of Scotland as part of their ongoing NATO mission. The Third Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland is held at constant readiness as part of NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force. The soldiers are part of the land...

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-united-states-host-spy-planes-china-13320186 JAKARTA: Indonesia rejected this year a proposal by the United States to allow its P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance planes to land and refuel there, according to four senior Indonesian officials...

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/10/17/used-alutsista-increasing-the-indonesian-armys-firepower.html The Indonesian Military (TNI) is currently implementing the third strategic plan (Renstra) of the so-called Minimum Essential Force program to modernize its primary weapons systems...

First of 8 planned DeWolf class icebreakers (6 for RCN and 2 for CCG) has conducted sea trials: https://navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2020/october/9122-canadian-navy-conducts-sea-trials-with-artic-and-offshore-patrol-vessel-hmcs-harry-dewolf.html According to pictures...

Royal Navy vessel HMS Enterprise has returned to the UK after 15 months. During the deployment, the survey ship sailed more than 53,000 nautical miles and in August, helped provide support to Beirut, Lebanon, following the huge explosion in the city's port. Full story...

https://warontherocks.com/2020/10/nato-in-the-arctic-keep-its-role-limited-for-now/ The adage “Don’t just do something. Stand there!” could easily describe NATO’s policies in the Arctic for the last 30 years. Consequently, the alliance has taken a largely hands-off approach to the region...

Credit to @Paro for bringing to my attention https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/the-dangerous-myths-about-chinas-nuclear-weapons/ Early this summer, as American and Russian diplomats gathered in Vienna to discuss extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, much of the focus was on a...

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/does-us-air-force-plan-replace-its-e-3-awacs-fleet?utm_rid=CPEN1000001566708&utm_campaign=25803&utm_medium=email&elq2=64e710e10c4e4541a3a42c11efa7ffb6 Since the U.S. Air Force has decided to replace the E-8C with a distributed network...

IPO cross posting: https://defencehub.live/threads/mazagon-dock-ltd-ipo.1946/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-11/china-s-insistence-that-taiwan-isn-t-a-country-starts-backfiring The more China tells the world that Taiwan isn’t a country, the more Beijing’s adversaries are starting to treat it like one. Ahead of Taiwan’s National Day on Saturday...

Please post news, updates and analysis here for discussion etc. If activity/interest picks up for it, I will pin it. ================ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/health/covid-india-children.html Though its overall total of cases is huge, the per capita number of cases reported daily in...

As some of you know I grew up for a long part of my childhood in Hong Kong. The events there lately (among other ones regarding India and World at large) led me to clash with lot of Chinese posters (quite intensely).. at an earlier gathering a lot of us were at...till I was basically muzzled...

https://asiatimes.com/2020/10/asean-being-pressed-by-us-military-to-help-contain-china/ HAIKOU – In late September, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen bitterly complained to the UN General Assembly that “some countries” were interfering in its internal affairs. This cry in the wilderness was only...