https://www.skiesmag.com/news/f-35-impact-canadas-economy/
The Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II has long been considered the favourite to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-188 Hornet. But in a competition now being contested in a weakened economy in which the government faces a...
It has been a long story, earlier details which I might get into a bit later...but news/updates governing this will be archived here.
It is of increasing conclusive relevance in news cycle increasingly given fiscal pressure from covid downturn in economy.
The current contenders are the: F-35A...
It is being done almost monthly, there was one last month too and PLAAF buzzed the frigate with cpl fighters apparently. We will see how they responded this time a bit later.
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2020/10/02/canadian-navy-in-huge-international-exercise-in-scotland/
Canadian warships are now in northern waters near Scotland as they join a huge international naval exercise called “Joint Warrior”. It is one of the largest military exercises in Europe by allied...
I'm guessing it was an RCN (Halifax) frigate...rather than a "corvette"
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-03/canadian-warship-sails-near-taiwan-at-time-of-heightened-china-tension
TAIPEI (REUTERS) - A Canadian warship has sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, the...
Who's the BJP dissident PM stuck in London and what's the equivalent of Mumbai Terror attack (with the dozens of actors spread around openly and brazenly, on ISI payroll and protection)?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2020/10/02/raytheon-defines-first-principles-for-building-a-space-sensor-layer/#202ac86841ce
The U.S. Department of Defense is contemplating construction of the most ambitious space constellation in history to defeat the threat posed by hypersonic...
https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2020/10/02/why-japan-must-reconsider-its-aegis-deployments/
Daniel Gouré, Ph.D., is a vice president at the public-policy research think tank Lexington Institute.
The security environment in the Western Pacific is becoming more challenging for the U.S., its...
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-us-air-force-flying-b-1-bombers-near-taiwan-169878
The skies in the waters around Taiwan have become increasingly crowded in recent weeks, and two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers and a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)...
https://warontherocks.com/2020/10/arming-without-aiming-challenges-for-japans-amphibious-capability/
Benjamin Schreer is professor and head of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a policy...
https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2020/10/01/japan-reveals-record-high-budget-request-supporting-hypersonic-tech-f-35-buys-and-more/
Japan is set to continue its recent trend of setting new records for its annual defense budgets, with the country continuing to cast a wary eye on...