RAMSTEIN, Germany — Polish F-16s currently deployed to Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania on enhanced Air Policing launched their first Alpha Scramble above the Baltic Sea to intercept a Russian IL-20 Reconnaissance aircraft on December 7.

As part of routine readiness training, an on-duty pair of F-1…

BERN — From November 15 to December 3, 2021, armasuisse and the Swiss Air Force carried out live ammunition air-to-air missile verification firings in the Hebrides archipelago, of north-western Scotland. The two missiles fired met all the requirements.

Air-to-air missile testing requires very l…

On 8-9 December 2021 (AEDT), the Combined Space Operations (CSpO) Initiative Principals Board – comprising representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States – met in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to discuss cooperation on space security.

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BRASILIA — Advances in exports from the Defense Industrial Base (IDB) were highlighted in a presentation by the Minister of Defense, Walter Souza Braga Netto, in the panel “Defense Industrial Base – Protection, development and job creation,” during the second day (08) of the 6th Mostra BID Brasil,…

The United States and Japan are already close military allies, but those ties could become even tighter in coming years as the two nations explore more opportunities to cooperate on defense research and development.

Both countries, along with Australia and India, are part of the group of nations …

The Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) and the Advisory Committee on International Affairs (CAVV) advise striving for an explicit international ban on fully autonomous weapon systems.

At the request of the cabinet, the authorities issued a report on the autonomous weapon systems. De…