Monthly Archive: Novembre 2021

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of AIM-120C Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $650 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency d…

SEOUL — The Ministry of National Defense held the “Defense Space Power Development Promotion Evaluation Meeting” on November 3 (Wednesday) at 15:00, supervised by Defense Minister Seo Wook.

“Through this meeting, we reviewed the progress made so far in relation to the development of our militar…

Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, relieved Cmdr. Cameron Aljilani as commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Cashin as Executive Officer, and Master Chief Sonar Technician Cory Rodgers as Chief of the Boat, of Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22), on Nov. 04, 20…

The recent announcement that Leonardo has placed the latest in a series of contracts with UK-based aviation services company 2Excel to commence the next stage of the Tempest flight test aircraft (FTA) programme is the latest milestone in the Tempest programme. Under the contract, a Boeing 757 commer…

The US Defense Department on Wednesday released its annual report on China’s military development, which again hyped the “China threat theory,” and discussed China’s nuclear arsenal, claiming that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is expanding its nuclear force much faster than the US had p…

In the margins of the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD), which was concluded on the 27th of October, Vice Adm. Aristeidis Alexopoulos the Greek defense ministry’s General Director for Defense Investments and Armaments, signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the possible transfer of…