Yearly Archive: 2020

TAIPEI — To dispel recent reports that the nation’s endeavor to produce its own submarines has been postponed, the Taiwanese Navy on Monday (Nov. 2) stated that its domestic submarine project is running on schedule and that construction of the first vessel will begin this month.

In May of last …

The UK’s AWE entity is in charge of maintaining the country’s nuclear warheads. For many years, it has been managed by a consortium dominated by the US arms company Lockheed Martin. This is about to change.

The UK government will resume “direct control” of a state-owned nuclear weapons facility f…

German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Monday that whoever won the upcoming US presidential elections, the US and Europe had to continue to cooperate to defend Western values in the face of several threats.

“However the election turns out, only the US and Europe together can k…

Amid recent US arms sales to the island of Taiwan, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reportedly sent warplanes to the Taiwan Straits on at least 25 days out of the total of 31 days in October, setting a new record for frequency this year, and leading Chinese mainland military analysts to sa…

South Korea launched a new Air Force unit Tuesday in charge of operating the country’s key reconnaissance assets, such as the RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft, in a move to enhance the country’s capabilities to monitor threats from North Korea and beyond, officials said.

As the country’s first reconnais…

Huntington-Ingalls Industries – Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a not to exceed $284,285,022 fixed-price-incentive (firm target) modification to previously awarded contract N00024-15-C-2114, and a not-to-exceed $30,714,978 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost plus incentive fee…