Category: Notizie Estero

WASHINGTON — More American military resources should be dedicated to Guam and Australia as the United States tries to keep pace with the Chinese military in the Indo-Pacific region, the Pentagon announced Monday after completing its months-long study of U.S. forces around the world.

The report, k…

For more than two decades, Taiwan tried to buy a fleet of modern conventional submarines to fend off an existential threat – invasion by China. There were no takers.

The United States, Taiwan’s main ally, has a nuclear-powered fleet and hadn’t built diesel-powered subs in decades. Other nations b…

CAIRO/SEOUL — South Korea is in talks with Egypt to export K-9 self-propelled howitzers, industry officials said Tuesday, raising the prospects for the artillery system’s first entry into the Middle Eastern and African market.

The negotiations are under way at the EDEX 2021, a major defense exh…

An F-35 jet “toppled off the end” of the ramp on a Royal Navy aircraft carrier and crashed into the sea, a video posted online shows.

It is understood that the wreckage of the £120 million F-35B Lightning II jet remains at the bottom of the Mediterranean nearly two weeks after the crash because t…

IWAKUNI, Japan — U.S. forces with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet conducted a joint rehearsal of tactics and simulated strikes on naval targets off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 19. Between the two services, the participating aircraft platforms included the F/A-18 (C, E,…

Germany’s new government has endorsed the arming of uninhabited aerial vehicles in its coalition agreement. The decision should only be seen as a first step in the acquisition of additional UAV strike capabilities, argue Franz-Stefan Gady and Oskar Glaese.

While security on NATO’s easter…