TAIPEI — The U.S. Navy is sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy.

The USS Antietam and USS Chancellors…

On Thursday 25 August, the defence ministers of Sweden, Finland and Norway met at Gustaf Mannerheim’s hunting lodge in southern Finland. During the day, they discussed Swedish-Finnish defence cooperation and cooperation between Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Swedish-Finnish defence cooperation has i…

NEWPORT NEWS, VA — HII, America’s only builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and leading provider of mission-driven defense technologies, celebrated the ceremonial keel-laying of aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80) at its Newport News Shipbuilding division today.

U.S. Olympic gold medal…

RAMSTEIN, Germany — Four Spanish Eurofighters landed at Ämari, Estonia, and joined the German Eurofighters currently supporting NATO’s enhanced Air Policing mission in the Baltics. The Spanish jets support the close cooperation concept called Plug-and-Fight the German Air Force has initiated with …

MANILA — The Philippine Navy’s (PN) first missile frigate, BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), is certified ready to perform naval missions after undergoing a three-day operational readiness evaluation (ORE) in Subic Bay, Zambales last week.

The annual ORE, held on Aug. 24-26, determines the state of prep…

LUXEMBOURG — The Ammunition Support Partnership (ASP), Air Munitions Component, delivered Mk-82 training bombs to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) to assure essential air training missions with F-35A.

This support was enabled by ASP for the first time through an Acquisition and Cross-Se…