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The Navy has announced that its MQ-25 T1 Stingray will endure tests on an aircraft carrier later this year ahead of the expected 2025 deployment. A test drone refueled a crewed fighter jet over Illinois on Friday, marking a key step in the military’s plans to incorporate unmanned aircraft into...

USS Michael Monsoor, the second of three Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe...

A water jet is sprayed over a C-130 transport aircraft on its arrival at Kabul international airport on October 9, 2013. [Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images] Turkey proposed that it guard and run Kabul's airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan...

While U.S. increases FMF to $120-million, France prepares international conference to assist the Lebanese Armed Forces whose budget was wiped out by collapse of country’s economy. The Lebanese Navy received in 2012 the first of class 44-meter Lebanese Coastal Security Craft (LCSC-42) under...

An artist's impression of the FC-31 overflying a Chinese Navy (PLAN) aircraft carrier. The plane will bring new capabilities to the PLAN which currently lacks low-observable fighters. The Chinese Navy is massively expanding its fleet, with at least three aircraft carriers at its vanguard. Yet...

5 natural disasters that beg for climate action Climate hazards are natural events in weather cycles. We’ve always had hurricanes, droughts and wildfires, flooding and high winds. However, we are currently witnessing a scale of destruction and devastation that is new and terrifying. The...

The main issue on the agenda of the NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, 2021, is the new Strategic Concept - the organization's action plan every 10 years, which identifies the main threats and challenges to Euro-Atlantic security and ways to overcome or prevent them. This time we will focus on...

Mali’s membership in the African Union has been suspended after last week’s military coup. The Union threatened sanctions if a civilian-led government is not restored. Last week the military arrested Bah Ndaw, interim president, and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. These arrests derailed a...

Babcock has announced it had held talks with officials in Greece proposing the Arrowhead-140 design (the basis for the Royal Navy’s Type 31) as a candidate for the Hellenic Navy’s new frigate modernisation programme. Working jointly with the UK Government, Babcock says that it can provide the...

A US Navy Landing Craft Air Cushioned (LCAC) seen in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, in 2006. Photo: Michael D. Kennedy/US Navy The US Navy has accepted the delivery of several amphibious landing crafts after conducting exercises to test their readiness and capabilities. The...

Hungary is ready to support Ukraine's accession to NATO and the European Union. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Chief of Staff Gergely Gulyas made a corresponding statement in an interview with Varosh media outlet, Ukrinform reports. According to Gulyas, Ukraine's accession to NATO and the EU...

Rheinmetall announced the delivery of the first 25 Boxer 8×8 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicles (CRV) to the Australian Army under the $5.2 billion LAND 400 Phase 2 Mounted Combat Reconnaissance Capability project. Minister for Defence Peter Dutton visited Rheinmetall Defence Australia’s Military...

In Jerusalem, Lindsey Graham says Israel will request $1 billion to replenish Iron Dome after Gaza conflict; citing strong bipartisan support, he predicts Congress will approve it Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to reporters on the roof of Jerusalem's King David Hotel, June 1, 2021 (Lazar...

Photo:PAP/Marcin Bielecki Saying that “each country’s security bedrock is a strong and modernised national army… the capacity of protecting one’s own borders and showing solidarity to allies” the head of the International Policy Bureau (BPM) Krzysztof Szczerski concluded his visit to Lithuania...

We have just concluded two virtual meetings of Foreign and Defence ministers. To prepare our NATO Summit in two weeks from now. In both sessions, we focused on our NATO 2030 agenda to strengthen our Alliance for the future. Ministers agreed that we need to take ambitious decisions to show...

Shafaq News / MP of al-Anbar Governorate, Faisal Al-Issawi, announced today that the Military Industrialization Commission had signed a memorandum to provide the Iraqi army with weapons and military equipment. Al-Issawi told Shafaq News agency that the Minister of Defense, Jumah Inad, and...

NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana has welcomed Romania's decision to set up the Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre (E-ARC), voicing his conviction that it would "make a significant contribution" to deepening the debate and operationalising resilience at the societal level...

Monday’s part of the drill, at a military base near Khartoum, was attended by the two countries’ chiefs-of-staff, Sudan’s Colonel General Mohammed Othman al-Hussein and his Egyptian counterpart, Lieutenant Geneneral Mohammed Farid. Egyptian military forces after arriving in the Sudanese...

[US Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Thomas S. Keisler IV] The United States has decided to boost the presence of its armed forces in Greece, both on a permanent and a rotational basis, and has so informed its allies and partners. According to well-informed sources, this enhanced...

A recovered gun and other military equipment at the scene in Bweyeye, Rusizi District. Courtesy The Rwanda Defence Force Sunday night repulsed an attack by about a section of FLN militants near the Burundi border, the military has said in a statement. A section comprises about 15 fighters...