Yearly Archive: 2022

SYDNEY, Australia — Australia would buy nuclear submarines from the United States by the middle of the next decade to give it more time to be able to build the boats onshore under a plan being considered by the Albanese government.

There has been growing concern that Australia will not be able …

Ben Wallace confirmed the new Prime Minister is sticking to her campaign promise of increasing defence spending by 3%.

The Defence Secretary has said Britain will increase the size of its Armed Forces spending by at least £52 billion in response to Russian aggression.

In his first interview si…

BERLIN — It is showdown time in the German federal parliament, the Bundestag, this Thursday: Lawmakers are scheduled to debate German assistance for Ukraine. And there are indications that a majority is in favor of supplying the country with modern tanks — something that Chancellor Olaf Scholz and…

A visit by Vasile Dîncu, the Minister of National Defense, to South Korea led to the signing of agreements and letters of intent.

In Seoul, Vasile Dîncu visited the DefExpo Korea 2022 technical and armaments exhibition and had meetings at an official level both with his South Korean counterpart a…

Some of Russia’s most high-tech equipment relies on obsolete electronics and parts it can no longer source from the rest of the world. The country’s inability to produce enough semiconductors, essential for the production of modern weapon systems, means it must use older microchips—including commerc…

TOKYO — North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, extending what has already been a record-breaking number of North Korean launches this year.

South Korea’s defense ministry said the North fired a short-range ballistic missile from…