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New pact with the US and UK is set to sink Australia’s historic submarine buy from France (Joe Gould, Defense News)

The U.S. and U.K. will aid Australia’s ambitions for a nuclear-powered submarine fleet as part of a new trilateral security partnership that leaders of...

UK Space Command: Step one for space domain awareness is bringing data together (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The first step in improving the United Kingdom’s space domain awareness is bringing existing data together, said the head of the country’s new Space...

British Army chief talks Taliban, TikTok and the United States (Andrew Chuter, Defense News)

Britain’s Army chief came to DSEI to make a keynote speech about the Army’s transformation plans and efforts to embrace data, digitization and cutting-edge...

Leonardo fine-tunes its 757 jetliner converted into a Tempest test rig (Tom Kington, Defense News)

Leonardo has announced more details of the 757 test bed aircraft it will use in the Tempest program, including a 28 ton payload for...

See Taiwanese jets take off from rural roads, and more from its latest drill (Johnson Lai, Huizhong Wu and Mari Yamaguchi, AP, Defense News)

The F-16 screeched across the sky Wednesday before landing on a highway cut through pineapple fields in southwestern Taiwan to refuel quickly and take...

UK industry team demos new counter-missile protection for armored vehicles (Jen Judson, Defense News)

A U.K.-based industry team led by Italian defense company Leonardo has successfully demonstrated a new system to protect tanks and armored vehicles from incoming missiles, according to...

Japan could become partner nation on UK-led future fighter effort, says program director (Vivienne Machi, Defense News)

Japan could be the next partner nation for the trinational, British-led next-generation fighter program, an official hinted at the DSEI arms trade show in London. The...

Two upcoming documents will reveal how the US Navy should fight in a great power competition (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

An ongoing Global Posture Review and a 2022 update to the National Defense Strategy will provide the U.S. Navy more clarity on what its...

Northrop, Leonardo take the plunge together for future unmanned rotorcraft efforts (Vivienne Machi, Defense News)

Leonardo and Northrop Grumman have joined forces to pursue the nascent vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned systems market. The two companies have worked together on multiple efforts since...

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