Tag: Defense

Central Asia Diversifies and Indigenizes Defense Procurement to Limit Reliance on Moscow

(Bradley Jardine, Edward Lemon - The Jamestown Foundation) On January 13, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced plans to revise Uzbekistan’s 2018 Defense Doctrine, signaling...

Palantir CEO says Berlin’s distrust of battlefield software is misplaced

(Filipp Piatov - Politico) Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized Germany after a top Berlin official said the country doesn’t plan to award military contracts...

Japan’s New Defense Export Policy: Will Industry Seize the Day?

(Christopher B. Johnstone and Gregg Rubinstein - Center for Strategic & International Studies) On April 21, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced long-anticipated changes to...

Pentagon seeks smarter, self-organizing drones as autonomous-warfare budget is poised to skyrocket

(Patrick Tucker - Defense One) Two requests to industry may help the Pentagon address one of the emerging challenges of warfare: enabling a relatively...

Navy F/A-18Gs over Iran, Venezuela show rise in aerial electronic attack

(Andrew Dardine - Defense One) The Pentagon is using the Navy’s EA-18G Growlers more than ever, suggesting more development and a bigger role for...

Berlin faces missile gap after Trump’s troop cuts

(Chris Lunday and Victor Jack - Politico) Germany thought the United States would soon deploy long-range missiles on its soil that could strike deep...

President Trump should secure America’s nuclear future by taking weapons out of DoE

(Franklin C. Miller and Frank A. Rose - Breaking Defense) President Donald Trump loves to make big, consequential decisions. And while the two of...

‘A new model of warfare’ — Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announces drone assault units

(Volodymyr Ivanyshyn - The Kyiv Independent) Ukraine has introduced drone assault units that combine aerial and ground drones, the Defense Ministry announced on April...

Canada launches cyber security certification to protect defence supply chains

(DigWatch) The Government of Canada has introduced Level 1 of the Canadian Program for Cyber Security Certification, establishing a baseline set of cyber security...

Finland clinches $642 million deal for 112 South Korean K9 howitzers

(Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo - Breaking Defense) Finland has signed a €547 million ($642 million) contract with South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace to procure 112 additional K9...

Israel to ramp up production of Arrow interceptors

(Seth J. Frantzman - Breaking Defense) Just days before the US and Iran announced a tenuous ceasefire, Israel said it was planning a “significant...

L’esercito ucraino offre alla NATO lezioni apprese sul campo (prima parte)

A marzo, un'importante delegazione militare della NATO, guidata dall'ammiraglio Pierre Vandier, Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, ha visitato Kiev, sottolineando una nuova fase di...

Polish firm teams with Northrop, ST Engineering to tap Poland’s massive ammo spending

(Jaroslaw Adamowski - Defense News) Privately-owned Niewiadów Polish Military Group has teamed up with Northrop Grumman and Singapore’s ST Engineering to launch 155-millimeter and...

What Ukraine’s wartime tech ecosystem can teach the rest of the world

(Valeriya Ionan - Atlantic Council) Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has scaled up drone manufacturing and streamlined its process for defense and technology innovation....

As aircraft losses mount, Pentagon wants a software fix to see through the fog of war

(Patrick Tucker - Defense One) The U.S. planes that have gone down in the Middle East since the launch of Operation Epic Fury all...

Outpaced by the US, China’s military places selective bets on artificial intelligence

(Ralph Jennings - Defense News) The Chinese navy is enhancing its guided-missile frigate, the Qinzhou, with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm designed to illuminate...