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US warns it'll destroy potential Iranian long-range missile shipment delivered to Maduro regime Venezuela dictator Maduro remains in power despite efforts to oust him EXCLUSIVE: The United States is warning it will destroy potential Iranian long-range missile shipments delivered to the Maduro...

A daring "flash to bang" operation by the Special Boat Service (SBS) took just seven minutes after a group of stowaways threatened terrified crew members on the UK-bound Nave Andromeda yesterday evening Elite British commandos needed just seven minutes to end a terrifying standoff which saw oil...

The American F-22 Raptor is the most advanced fighter plane in the world, and defense officials who claim to have been left out of the loop on the sale of the F-35s to the UAE are now trying to press their case for it. An F-22 Raptor at a U.S. airbase in Ohio, August 2020. Credit: US AIR...

A MARINE engineering and propulsion specialist company has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to support and maintain small diesel engines onboard amphibious assault ships, mine hunters and other Royal Navy vessels. The £5.5m five-year contract, awarded by the Ministry of...

The Russian President has said the idea of a formal pact between Moscow and Beijing is ‘certainly imaginable’ although the prospect appears remote at present Comments may have been intended as a sign of goodwill as relations between China and US continue to deteriorate Chinese soldiers...

Chief of Defence Forces Gen Tan Sri Affendi Buang speaks to the media at Wisma Pertahanan in Kuala Lumpur, July 1, 2020. — Bernama pic KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) is always on standby even though the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa...

On its virtual booth, at Euronaval Online, the digital edition of Euronaval 2020, International naval defense and maritime security industry exhibition, the Finnish Company Marine Alutech displays its military transport vessel Watercat M9. Watercat M9 military transport vessel fully designed...

Christened SCRAMBLE, the prototype software suite will patch vulnerabilities in the system in three ways. Purdue University has embarked on a five-year project in collaboration with Princeton to make military drone software as well as that of other unmanned machines hackproof. The project...

Hidden at sea, Hammerhead will unleash guided torpedoes on enemy submarines. The U.S. Navy is reinvesting in sea mines as a means of harassing enemy ships and submarines. The new Hammerhead mine will be placed by unmanned undersea vehicles where they could intercept enemy submarines. Once...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80). Roosevelt, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its first patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of regional allies and partners and U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (Photo by...

What are unconventional warfare and foreign subversion? Will they be important in an era of great power competition? What are some of the second- and third-order effects when states use subversion to undermine their rivals? Retired Lt. Gen. Ken Tovo and Dr. Melissa Lee join the Irregular...

Hundreds of Iraqi boys, many of them Yazidis, were forced to become child soldiers by IS, but few are getting any support to help them move on from their experience Before his rescue from the Islamic State group, Hani, a kidnapped Yazidi boy, had been sheltering for months in a tunnel in...

The Courbet in Toulon's dry dock, on October 5, 2020. The renovation work will last 10 months. In 2017, the DGA (French Defense Procurement Agency) awarded the contract to upgrade three of the five La Fayette-class stealth frigates (FLF) operated by the French Navy. Synchronized with the...

Responding to the news that Nigerian soldiers shot at peaceful and unarmed protesters in Lagos on 20 October, Fatou Jagne Senghore, Regional Director of ARTICLE 19 West Africa said: The protesters had gathered at Lekki Tollgate since the beginning of the protests and stayed despite the...

BAE Systems, a global leader in electronic warfare, was selected to develop attritable air vehicle systems under the U.S. Air Force Skyborg program. The details were given in a Thursday media release, to announce under Skyborg program, which has a contract ceiling of up to $400 million, the BAE...

Caskets containing the remains of 117 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War are escorted by honor guards at the Taoxian international airport in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Sept. 27, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Qing) BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- The War to Resist U.S...

UN says two sides in Libyan military talks reach 'historic achievement' with permanent ceasefire agreement across Libya. GENEVA -- UN says two sides in Libyan military talks reach 'historic achievement' with permanent ceasefire agreement across Libya...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - A reported spike in U.S. military flights over the seas near China reflects Washington’s drive to understand and deter Chinese expansion in contested waters, analysts say. U.S. military surveillance planes flew off China’s coast 60 times in September, more than in July or...

Ukraine will not meet the water needs of Russian military bases in Crimea, and the restoration of water supply is possible only after the de-occupation of the peninsula. Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk said this at a...

Zelensky also disclosed plans to extend military cooperation with Turkey, the UK and the US KIEV, October 20. /TASS/. Ukraine commence construction of two naval military base in order to protect the Black Sea region, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensy said in his annual address to the...