Tag: Defense

Defense/USA. Austal ahead of schedule in yard upgrades, but still awaiting ships to build (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Austal USA shipyard in Alabama is ahead of schedule in revamping its facilities to build steel ships in addition to aluminum ships, but...

Defense/North Korea. North Korea Test-Fires New ‘Long-Range Cruise Missile’: KCNA (The Defense Post)

North Korea test-fired a new “long-range cruise missile” over the weekend, state media reported Monday, with the United States saying the nuclear-armed country was...

Defense-Australia-India. AUSINDEX: le marine indiana e australiana si addestrano insieme (Analisi Difesa)

Le marine di India e Australia hanno concluso l’esercitazione congiunta AUSINDEX 2021, sviluppatasi nell’arco di quattro giorni al largo del porto di Darwin, nell’Australia Settentrionale....

Defense/USA. Boost Defense Spending? Congress Owes Us a Better Explanation (Billy Osermeyer, Defense One)

Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., left, and ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., arrive for a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on June 15, 2021. TOM...

Defense/USA. Missile Defense Agency successfully tests new booster for homeland missile defense system (Jen Judson, Defense News)

A threat-representative ICBM target launches from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands...

Defense-India-Russia. India’s Military Outreach: Military Logistics Agreements (Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan, ORF)

India and Russia are set to sign a bilateral military logistics agreement in the coming months.  The India-Russia bilateral agreement is called the Reciprocal...

Defense-Australia-South Korea. Small hints of a bigger opportunity in Australia- South Korea ties (Peter Dean, The Interpreter)

In Australia, over the last few weeks, international headlines have focused on the United States, between the problematic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the 70th anniversary...

USA/Defense. Where are the Carriers ? U.S. National Strategy and the Choises Ahead (John F. Lehman Jr., Steven Wills, Foreign Policy Research Institute)

As the United States seeks to prepare for a potential conflict with a peer-level adversary, the debate around the utility of the aircraft carrier—and its...

The symbol and the risk (by Marco Emanuele)

After twenty years, September 11, 2001 (which we have raised as a symbol that traces a new era) still speaks to us. We look...

Defense/USA/China/Russia. China, Russia loom over routine air operations across the globe (Rachel Cohen, Defense One)

Aircraft from the 354th Fighter Wing and the Air National Guard’s 168th Wing line up in an "elephant walk" on Eielson Air Force Base,...

Defense/USA. Project Convergence ‘22 seeks to take multinational network to next level (Jen Judson, Defense News)

French soldiers comb through information streaming in from both a virtual battlefield and real operational activities at its mission command headquarters at the U.S....

Defense/USA. How the Pentagon’s joint IT provider will contribute to JADC2 (Andrew Eversden, Defense News)

The Defense Information Systems Agency has a "growing" role to play in Joint All-Domain Command and Control. (DoD photo by Thomas L. Burton/Released) As each military...

Defense/North Korea. See video and images from North Korea’s latest military parade (Kim Tong-Hyung, The Associated Press, Defense News)

 Military search dogs and goose-stepping trainers. Health workers wearing gas masks and red hazmat suits. And a slimmed down, beaming Kim Jong Un in...

Defense/India. Indian government approves order request for 56 C295 aircraft (Vivek Raghuvanshi, Defense News)

Vistors walk past a model of the Airbus C295 at DefExpo on the outskirts of Chennai, India, on April 13, 2018. (Arun Sankar/AFP via...

Defense. Lawmakers set for battle over next-gen nuclear missile (Jeo Gould, Defense News)

Senior Airman Ryan Page inspects the front of a booster in preparation for a missile roll transfer on April 20, 2021, at Malmstrom Air...

Defense. Indonesia orders five C-130J aircraft from Lockheed (Mike Yeo, Defense News)

A C-130J Hercules of the U.S. COast Guard flies out of Kulusuk Airport in Kululsuk, Greenland. Sources tell Defense News that Indonesia has ordered...