MANILA — The Department of National Defense (DND) and South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) on Monday signed the PHP30 billion offshore patrol vessel (OPV) contract which seeks to provide six OPVs to the Philippine Navy (PN).

Defense spokesperson Arsenio Andolong, in a stateme…

ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heads to this week’s NATO summit in Madrid, threatening to veto Finland’s and Sweden’s bid to join the Atlantic alliance.

Ankara is warning it’s not ready to lift its veto threat of their NATO membership bid ahead of the alliance’s summit in Mad…

TEHRAN — Iranian state television said Sunday that Tehran had launched a solid-fuel rocket into space, drawing a rebuke from Washington ahead of the expected resumption of stalled talks over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.

It’s unclear when or where the rocket was launched, bu…

SEVASTOPOL, Crimea — The Black Sea Fleet’s oldest submarine Alrosa will make the first voyage over the past eight years for sea trials after repairs and upgrade, the Black Sea Fleet’s 13th ship repair plant told TASS.

Earlier, a military source in Sevastopol said that the submarine had been upg…

Although the Russians have made incremental gains in the Donbas, it does not appear that they have encircled the city of Lysychansk, a senior Defense Department official said today.

The Ukrainians are putting up stiff resistance in and around Lysychansk, the official said, noting that the area wh…

LONDON — Global aircraft orders in May have slowed and were less than previous months, but this is against the strong order books that we have seen in recent months, 15 single-aisle and 21 wide-body aircraft were ordered. Following a strong start to 2022, year-to-date aircraft orders are the large…