MOSCOW — The missile cruiser “Moskva” sank while being towed to its destination in a storm due to damage to the hull received due to a fire from the detonation of ammunition. This was reported on Thursday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“During the towing of the Moskva cru…

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Nigeria of AH-1Z Attack Helicopter Related FMS Acquisitions and related equipment for an estimated cost of $997 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the …

Japan scrambled fighter jets against aircraft approaching its airspace 1,004 times in fiscal 2021, up from 725 a year earlier and hitting the second-highest level on record, amid increased Chinese intelligence activities, the Defense Ministry said Friday.

The figure for scrambles by Air Self-Defe…

Ukraine is negotiating the purchase of heavy strike drones from General Atomics, which could change the balance of the war. This was reported by Militarny, citing a statement by General Atomics to Forbes.

Last week, Ukrainian officials met in Washington with representatives of General Atomics, a …

ISTANBUL — Battle-tested Turkish combat drones seem to have gotten yet another customer as Slovakia has expressed interest and signaled it could become the second European Union member state to acquire Bayraktar TB2s.

The intention was reaffirmed by Slovakia’s Defense Minister Jaro Nad who on W…

The Belgian Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that it had awarded a Belgian-Dutch-American consortium a contract worth some 600 million euros for the construction of the infrastructure necessary for the operation of the future F-35 combat aircraft, expected to arrive in Belgium from April 20…