Australia will boost defence spending by A$50.3 billion ($32 billion) over the next decade and reshuffle its weapons programs to emphasise missiles, drones and warships as it looks to the possibility of a Pacific conflict between China and the U.S.The bulk of the new spending, part of a A$330 billion decade-long budget, will only kick in after five years, and ultimately take defence spending to

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun via video teleconference Tuesday, in the first substantive talks between the superpowers’ defence chiefs in nearly 18 months.The United States has been working to strengthen defence cooperation with its allies in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China’s growing influence but also wants to maintain lines of

Tel Aviv: After attacking Israel directly for the first time and failing in such a high-profile way, Iran must prove to the Arab world that its appearance of power is no mirage, a prominent Saudi commentator said."Now we will know if Iran is really an empire, or if it is just a country like any other country. Maybe we will find out that it is just a militia like Hamas," Abdel Aziz Al Khamis told

Argentina inked a deal for 24 F-16 jets for its air force from Denmark for some $300 million, the government said on Tuesday.President Javier Milei and Defence Minister Luis Petri announced the purchase in a video posted on X.“With these new aircraft we are taking a transcendental step in our defence policy,” Petri said via video from Copenhagen.“From today, Argentines, we once again have forces

A state-of-the-art Submersible Platform for Acoustic Characterization and Evaluation (SPACE) inaugurated in Kerala’s Idukki for Indian Navy’s ships, submarines, and helicopters, enabling survey, sampling, and data collection with modern scientific instrumentation.Samir V Kamat, Secretary, Department of Defence–Research and Development (R&D)–and Chairman, DRDO, inaugurated the platform at

In a significant step forward in strengthening bilateral ties between India and Uzbekistan, General Manoj Pande, the Chief of the Army Staff, inaugurated a high-tech IT Laboratory at the Uzbek Academy of Armed ForcesThe Chief of the Army Staff, General Manoj Pande, recently inaugurated a high-tech IT Laboratory at the Uzbek Academy of Armed Forces during his visit to Uzbekistan from April 15-18.