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The USS Stout broke a record this week for days spent continuously at sea. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The USS Stout completed a nearly seven-month deployment in the U.S. Fifth Fleet Area of Operations Saturday, surpassing the Navy's record for days consecutively at sea...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said Tuesday that during his visit to Washington last month, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq. "During my visit to Washington and during the strategic dialogue, the U.S. president clearly announced the pullout of...

Northrop Grumman has reiterated its call for Canberra to move its acquisition of the MQ-4C Triton unmanned air vehicle (UAV) forward to help fill a potential two-year production gap. The company notes that the platform has proven effective since the US Navy deployed a pair of the high altitude...

China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force has been taking a more prominent role in Chinese military diplomacy. This was made abundantly clear earlier last week, when the PLA Air Force launched a series of aggressive shows of force near Taiwan in response to U.S. diplomatic visits to the island...

Uzbekistan’s Ambassador Dilshod Akhatov has met with Defence Production Secretary of India Raj Kumar within the framework of the ongoing activities on development of military-technical cooperation between Uzbekistan and India. Raj Kumar stressed that India is interested in further developing...

Soldiers conduct simulated air assaults at Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, Aug. 10, 2020, for Saber Junction 20, an annual U.S. Army Europe-directed exercise. Army Maj. Robert Fellingham A former member of Trump’s NSC decries the plan to pull U.S. troops...

Jeddah, September 28, 2020, SPA -- The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is following with concern the attacks launched by the Armenian Army against Azerbaijan in several locations in Azerbaijan's territory, violating the cease-fire and resulting in civilian...

According to a contract released by the U.S. Department of Defense on September 25, 2020, Raytheon Technologies, Woburn, Massachusetts is being awarded a sole-source contract in the amount of $212,760,106 under a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) case to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide radar...

An HH-60W Jolly Green II, foreground, and an AH-64 Apache at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, May 19, 2020. US Air Force/Samuel King Jr. In mid-August, the Air Force started live-fire testing with...

The Caracal robotic vehicle was on display at a Sunday ceremony in Tehran, which was attended by the Ground Forces' commander Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, among other high-ranking Iranian military officials. Last week, scores of Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles were put in service...

These weapons will arm their updated missile boats. Israel’s navy conducted a new trial of a sea-to-sea missile system that it says will ensure naval superiority in the future. Israel is in the midst of modernizing its navy as it acquires new Sa’ar 6 class corvettes that will form the...

Jesse Ventura in the 1987 movie "Predator." 20th Century Fox The Navy has fielded a 650-round ammo backpack nicknamed "Avenger" to troops at some point in the last several years. Navy officials...

TEHRAN, (BM) – At a ceremony yesterday [June 25 – ed.] the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA) handed over to the Islamic Republic Air Force three locally produced Kosar fighters, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Read more: The US is facing Iran in a possible deal for a...

The U.S. military recently conducted a live-fire full combat replication with unmanned-to-unmanned teaming guiding attacks, small reconnaissance drones, satellites sending target coordinates to ground artillery and high-speed, AI-enabled “networked” warfare. This exercise was a part of the...

The U.S. Army ARTEMIS jet. In the box, the route flown by the aircraft N488CR on Sept. 23, 2020. (Image credit: U.S. Army/Planeradar.ru editing by TheAviationist) After Flying Multiple Missions From Kadena Air Base, Japan, the experimental ARTEMIS (Airborne Reconnaissance and Targeting...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 27 Trend: The Armenian armed forces committed large-scale military provocations on the frontline today, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Commander-in-Chief of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev has addressed the nation in this regard. "Armenian armed...

A Houthi fighter mans a machine gun mounted on a military truck on the outskirts of Sanaa. (File photo: Reuters) The Arab Coalition destroyed an air defense system that belonged to the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen’s Sanaa, the coalition announced on Saturday. The...

The incident took place at the frontier between the Somali town Bulo Hawo and Kenya's Mandera, close to where the border meets Ethiopia to the north Somali and Kenyan troops engaged in a minutes-long firefight on Saturday at the two countries' shared border, local officials and witnesses said...

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, Plymouth, Minnesota, was awarded a $37,669,772 firm-fixed-price contract to buy long lead items for the production of XM813 Cannons for the Stryker Medium Caliber Weapon System 30mm Lethality Upgrade program. Bids were solicited via the internet with one...

APOPO HeroRAT Magawa with his ‘rat-sized’ PDSA Gold Medal. (Courtesy of APOPO) The PDSA award committee was impressed by Magawa's skill of detecting underground mines and felt he deserved a gold medal for his bravery...