Today, President Joe Biden signed into law the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.” The act authorizes the administration, through fiscal year 2023, to lend or lease military equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. The act would exempt the administration from certai…

The Ministry of Defence has announced more than £2 billion of further funding for the Dreadnought nuclear deterrent submarines, which are under construction at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness. The funding is to enable the third major phase of the programme, Delivery Phase 3, the most sign…

Australia is set to acquire an additional 13 Sikorsky MH-60R Romeo multimission maritime helicopters that will bring the Royal Australian Navy’s inventory up to 36 units. The procurement is expected to cost AUD2.5 billion ($1.7 billion) and will enable the RAN to retire its small fleet of six MRH90 …

(…/…) On the training side — I’m sorry, the — before I get to training, let me just talk about sort of where we are on the major pieces heading over there. So, I can report that almost all the 90 howitzers are in Ukraine, more than 85 of them.

And as for the rounds, again, if you add the 144 to…

In his Victory Day speech on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin “calmly but firmly” stated that Russia had to take pre-emptive actions in its special operation in Ukraine as NATO had created an “absolutely unacceptable threat” at Russia’s borders. According to Chinese analysts, the speech was …

Australia is involved in complex negotiations to ensure that its plan to acquire eight nuclear-powered submarines doesn’t weaken the international non-proliferation regime.

The chief of the Royal Australian Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine taskforce, Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead, tells The Strategi…