Category: Notizie Estero

WASHINGTON — The sale of four sophisticated U.S.-made aerial drones to Taiwan has crossed a key hurdle in Congress and is at the last stage of approval, sources said on Monday, a deal likely to add to already strained ties with China.

The $600 million deal would be the first such sale since U.S…

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry will get the first serial-produced Su-57 fifth-generation fighter in December, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Monday.

“The Defense Ministry will get the first serial-produced Su-57 with the operational first-stage engine on the single military o…

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…

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 …

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…

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…