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Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi lodged a strong protest with Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, on Oct. 9 over the arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a woman on Okinawa. The two met at Japan’s Ministry of Defense in Tokyo during Paparo’s visit, the ministry said. Koizumi […]View the full article

A German environmental and human rights group has urged European leaders not to weaken sanctions on Russian energy after President Donald Trump announced a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply diesel fuel to the United States and global markets, a week before a new U.S. sanctions law on Russia reaches its […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force will hold a two-day industry day October 20-21 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to brief companies on a new mission computer upgrade for its F-16 fighter fleet, according to a notice posted September 18 by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The event covers the Next-Generation Mission Computer program, an […]View the full article

U.S. Air Force officers studying at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) are testing whether small drones can scout a damaged airfield before engineers walk onto it. The research targets a job that still depends mostly on people. After an attack, U.S. Air Force civil engineers have to reopen runways while dealing with unexploded […]View the full article

Romania has received its first K9 self-propelled howitzers, K10 ammunition resupply vehicles and K12 vehicles from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace under its tracked self-propelled howitzer program. Romania signed a contract worth nearly $1 billion with Hanwha on July 9, 2024, for 54 K9 howitzers and 36 K10 resupply vehicles, along with ammunition and tracked and […]View the full article

It is no secret that I am a huge fan of Japan’s yet-unnamed cruiser, the ASEV. I put my thoughts down about it 18 months ago. You can click here to review if you wish. Like I said to more than one person, “So, the Japanese are going to get the CG(X) we should have already in the fleet?” Well, now the Italians are making me green with envy too. Europe’s Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) has issued a €3.7 billion ($4.2 billion) contract for the production of two Italian Navy DDX destroyers to the Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN) joint venture, made up of local firms Fincantieri and Leonardo. “The DDX programme is set to redefine the Italian Navy’s capability…

The U.S. Department of War has ordered 14,000 attack drones and explosive payloads from California drone maker Neros after the company finished near the top of both events in the Pentagon’s latest Drone Dominance competition, a deal Neros values at more than $100 million. Neros announced the order on Sept. 30 and said it had […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded British-owned MSI Defence Systems a $197 million contract for 30mm deck gun mounts and the electro-optical sights that aim them, the weapons the service is fitting to its warships to shoot down small drones and fast attack boats. The firm-fixed-price contract, issued by Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division […]View the full article

Russia’s state defense conglomerate Rostec says three of its newest jet-powered strike drones, the S-71M, S-71K and Dan-T, can now do the job of cruise missiles at a fraction of the cost, and that all three are already being used against Ukraine. Rostec made the claims in comments to the Russian Defense Ministry newspaper Krasnaya […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has added $12.1 million to a contract with Scale AI to develop artificial intelligence agents for the E-4C Survivable Airborne Operations Center, the new “doomsday plane” meant to keep U.S. leaders in command of the military, including nuclear forces, if ground command centers are destroyed. The modification raises the total value […]View the full article

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $300 million sale to Australia of the systems and support it needs to plan Tomahawk cruise missile strikes, adding mission-planning capability to the long-range missiles the Royal Australian Navy began acquiring in 2023. The package covers a Theater Mission Planning Center with its associated communications systems, the […]View the full article

China’s Communist Party leadership and the State Council have issued new guidelines laying out 19 measures to speed up breakthroughs in core technologies, expand the use of artificial intelligence across industry and make the country more self-reliant in science and technology, state news agency Xinhua reported on Oct. 9. The guidelines are built around what […]View the full article

An Italian Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet was hit during an overnight attack on King Fahd Air Base near Ta’if, Saudi Arabia, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto confirmed Friday. Crosetto said the aircraft, designated F-2000 by the Italian Air Force, was parked in a remote area of the base when it was struck. No Italian personnel […]View the full article

The U.S. Space Development Agency released a formal request for proposals September 18 for ground stations that will receive data from its next generation of missile-tracking satellites, with proposals due November 2. The solicitation covers Ground Entry Points, or GEPs, for the agency’s Resilient Missile Warning Tracking satellites in low Earth orbit. These ground stations […]View the full article

Russia has nearly finished the steel frames for the first three of 16 large aircraft shelters it is building at Engels-2, the main base for its strategic bomber fleet, satellite imagery published by open-source analysis group AviVector shows. An Airbus Defence and Space image dated Oct. 12 shows three side-by-side shelter frames standing on new […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force retired EC-130H Compass Call tail 1590 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, on Sept. 18, after more than four decades of Compass Call electronic warfare operations. The propeller-driven aircraft made its final flight on Sept. 2 and taxied in for the last time during a retirement ceremony. The EA-37B now takes […]View the full article

The Javelin Joint Venture completed a simulation demonstration in Norway using a Kongsberg Medium-Caliber Turret fitted with a prototype dual launcher assembly for the Javelin anti-tank missile. The companies described it as the first phase of an ongoing effort to integrate Javelin more closely with vehicle-mounted turret systems. The Javelin Joint Venture is a partnership […]View the full article

Rafael Systems Global Sustainment, the U.S. subsidiary of Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, won an Other Transaction Agreement through the Aviation & Missile Technology Consortium to pursue U.S. qualification of the SPIKE SR shoulder-fired missile, the company announced Sept. 22. The agreement covers testing and adapting the missile to U.S. military requirements, but the companies […]View the full article

Russia has delivered a new batch of Su-57 stealth fighters to its air force, and the jets come in what the manufacturer calls a “new technical configuration,” with upgraded onboard systems and an expanded set of weapons options. Rostec, the state conglomerate that owns manufacturer United Aircraft Corporation, announced the delivery but did not say […]View the full article

New video from Camp Fuji shows Japan’s Type 25 Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile launcher driving onto a firing site, raising its missiles into launch position and packing up again, giving a rare look at how the country’s first domestically built long-range strike missile is operated. The three-minute clip was posted on X by Japanese military […]View the full article