NATO

Fort Liberty (North Carolina): The US Army is working on a new conventional fires strategy expected by the end of this year, according to General James Rainey, who leads Army Futures Command. “We did a...

New Delhi: Elbit Systems UK has opened an advanced manufacturing and development facility in Bristol, England, following three years of planning and more than £35 million (U.S. $46 million) in investments, the company announced. The...

Ankara: In keeping with its aim of increasing its global footprint, China is expected to make a significant showing at Turkey’s biennial defence conference this month, according to an official organizer. As part of this,...

Tokyo: Top ranking US Army officer encouraged Japan’s commitment to doubling its defence spending over the next five years, calling Tokyo’s controversial push for a stronger military crucial to confront rising threats from North...

Washington/Cologne: Coming out strongly in defence of Ukraine getting eventual membership into NATO, the Secretary-General of the grouping, Jens Stoltenberg countered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who lamented the lack of a specific timeline. “We all...

Belfast: Ahead of the NATO Heads of State Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, the groupings Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is expected to get a third term to lead the alliance for an additional year, which...

Vilnius/Washington: Just as hopes of Sweden joining NATO appeared to be receding, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to allow Stockholm’s alliance membership request to move forward, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said July 11. While...

  The recent authorisation of cluster bomb supply to Ukraine by United States President Joe Biden raises concerns about the moral implications. The US boasts how it has impaired Russia while the EU continues to...

  More than a year of bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has brought forth two narratives in the western media. First, is the amount of money channelled through NATO to Ukraine and second, is...

Toulouse. The SYRACUSE 4B communications satellite, built by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space, has been successfully launched from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It was the last launch of...

Tel Aviv: Germany’s ESG Elektroniksystem and Logistik, and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), have set up a ground-breaking demonstrator. Based at ESG, this will highlight the exceptional interoperability achieved between the IAI-developed OPAL real-time net-centric...

  Belfast: The NATO alliance is nearing the establishment of a NATO-Ukraine Council in which all members can directly engage and consult with the embattled Eastern European country on “security issues of mutual concern” —...

Paris: The Swedish Air Force will not rush to join either of the two major European led sixth-generation fighter jet programs, as it continues to focus on preliminary “fact finding” activities, two senior Swedish...