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Vice Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff stresses realities of strategic nuclear deterrence
Last week, Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva delivered a keynote speech at a Strategic Deterrent Coalition symposium in Arlington, Virginia: Americans n...
AI, robots and the future of warfare: discussions among Mad Scientists
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and the University of Texas at Austin hosted the Mad Scientist Conference at the university on April 24...
With powerful army and Chinese protection, Wa is de facto independent from Myanmar
Joe Kumbun* reminds in the Irrawaddy, a newspaper from Myanmar (formerly Burma), that he had written, in May 2017, that the United Wa State Army (U...
Vietnamese annual defense budget to reach USD 7.9Bn by 2024
According to a report published by BusinessWire, China's increased naval presence and territorial claims in the disputed waters of South China Sea ...
Russia: modern electronic warfare to comprise 70 percent in 2021
Electronic warfare (EW) is an armed struggle which affects controls, communications, and reconnaissance of the adversary with radio emissions and p...
Russian MoD holds defense hardware delivery day 2019
On April 12, Defense Minister of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu held a defense hardware delivery day at the National Defe...
New Amphibious Combat Vehicles and new tactics for the USMC
The USMC is getting two new types of Amphibious Combat Vehicles ( a wheeled one, and a tracked one), and a strategy is in development to use them, ...
US Army senior air defender talks future of air, missile defense
The U.S. Army's senior air defender talked about current and future developments in the air and missile defense, or AMD, with senior military leade...
New Russian command system rapidly creates combined forces
Five years ago, the Russian armed forces held a unique military operation in Crimea. Foreign observers focused on the appearance of the engaged Rus...
Syrian experience changes engagement tactic of Russian ground forces
The Syrian combat experience changed the engagement tactic of the Russian Ground Forces. Now, even motorized rifles train to helicopter assault in ...
US Army SHORAD air defense in South Korea integrates counter-UAS in core competencies
Amid the looming threat of surveillance by Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), 8th Army recently validated the reception, staging, onward movement, and ...
Russia rearms strategic missile forces
The Russian military in six years accepted into service 217 strategic ballistic missiles, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the State Duma defens...
US fiscal year 2020 defense budget to boost air and missile defense
The Army's budget request for fiscal year 2020 includes funding to field two "Iron Dome" air defense batteries and the first Maneuver Short-Range A...
US DoD releases fiscal year 2020 budget proposal
"Today (March 12) the Department of Defense rolls out our FY 2020 budget proposal. With the largest research and development request in 70 years, t...
Global arms trade - USA increases dominance, arms flows to the Middle East surge
The volume of international transfers of major arms in 2014–18 was 7.8 % higher than in 2009–13 and 23 per cent higher than in 2004–2008, according...
Russia has developed new plan of activities to 2020
The Russian armed forces will for the first time receive medium-range attack drones in 2019, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the State Duma def...
Future acquisitions for the Norwegian Defence Sector 2019 - 2026
The long term planning process outlines the continuous development of the Norwegian Defence Sector with respect to organization, infrastructure (ga...
Russia designs new option of BMPT Terminator tank support vehicle
A new wave of rumors and disputes about the third option of the tank combat support vehicle (BMPT) made it necessary to clarify the development tre...
Russian intermediate missile designers to resolve several problems
The Russian defense industry is facing two tasks because of the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty and subsequent...
US soldiers learn Arctic survival from Canadian neighbors
Nearly 40 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, traveled to British C...