Yearly Archive: 2022

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met today with General Wei Fenghe, Minister of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), on the margins of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Secretary Austin and General Wei di…

Türkiye’s first indigenous unmanned fighter aircraft Bayraktar Kızılelma, developed by Baykar Technologies, has performed its first taxi trials.

Bayraktar Kızılelma, transferred to Akıncı Flight Training and Test Center in the northwestern province of Tekirdağ’s Çorlu district, first successfully…

OFF KAUAI, Hawaii — During a demonstration here, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force successfully intercepted short and medium-range ballistic missile targets with SM-3 Block IB and SM-3 Block IIA interceptors.

This is the first time a non-U.S. maritime service intercepted targets with both va…

Europe is waking up to a new need to defend itself since Russia invaded Ukraine.

As children in Lithuania headed back to class this autumn, some of their schools were marked with new stickers: Hundreds have been designated as bomb shelters. In Finland, defence forces have been assembling modular …