At the Obangame Express event, which is the largest multinational maritime exercise in Western Africa, BAE Systems’ Multi-INT Analytics for Pattern Learning and Exploitation (MAPLE) as a Service, MaaS for short, was integrated with SeaVision, the U.S. Navy’s premier tool for unclassified interagency and coalition maritime data sharing. SeaVision is a maritime situational awareness tool […]
More than 1,000 guests including servicemembers, veterans, and their families witnessed as the Navy’s 69th Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer joined the fleet. The ship honors the local hero and statesman, Sen. Daniel K. Inouye. Sen. Inouye was a U.S. senator from Hawaii who served in congress from 1962 until his death in 2012. During World […]
The corvette launched is named Bani Yas (P110). The second vessel is set to be launched next year.
Iraq‘s national security adviser said today that US-led forces have completed their combat mission in the country, meaning that the remaining troops will now have a training and advisory role. Qassim al-Aaraji tweeted that the combat mission was completed on schedule before the end of the year and that the combat troops are to be […]
As diplomacy with Iran stutters, US official tells Reuters that American and Israeli defence chiefs will discuss preparations for a worst-case scenario.
A bipartisan bid to block the $650m sale of missiles and missile launchers has failed in the US Senate.
A major new weapons package, starting with the Bayracktar TB2 UAVs, is purchased by the UAE from Turkey. Already, according to Russian media reports, a delegation of UAE government officials is in Ankara to discuss possible cooperation with Turkey‘s defence industries, according to a Turkish official, and there is talk of buying Turkish UCAVs BAYRAKTAR. […]
Even the Americans are forced to withdraw large quantities of weapons systems as the cost of maintaining them has become disproportionately high and prevents the development of new technologies. Congress has published the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) for the year 2022, under which the US Air Force can retire 164 aircraft and UAVs, but […]
Saudi Arabia has asked the US for hundreds of Patriot missiles in order to restore the quantity consumed in the war in Yemen. The Patriot is used against aggressive UAVs and missiles to protect the country‘s oil fields. Saudi Arabia is fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Saudi Arabia recently requested to buy 280 AIM-120C7/C8 AMRAAM […]
The attack on a mosque in Larnaca will not go unanswered, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said, saying “you will pay a heavy price for your participation in such sabotage“. In his statements before leaving for Qatar, the Turkish President said that “unfortunately, there was an attack on our mosques in southern Cyprus. Of course, this […]