HENGELO, Netherlands — Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding and Thales signed on November 17, 2020, the contract for the delivery and full integration of Thales’s Mission and Combat System for the four MKS 180 class frigates contracted by the German Navy. The system will be designed by Damen and compl…

BUDAPEST — On Tuesday, November 17, Colonel-General Ferenc Korom, Commander of the Hungarian Armed Forces, and Jackson Medeiros de Farias Schneider, President of the Brazilian Embraer Defense and Security Company, signed a contract for the purchase of two Brazilian-made military transport aircraft…

TAIPEI — Taiwan’s air force has grounded its F-16 fleet after losing a plane on a training mission, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday, the second loss of a fighter jet in less than a month at a time of increased missions to intercept Chinese aircraft.

While Taiwan’s air force is well tra…

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn (DDG-113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer, intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Blo…

Germany and Europe “cannot protect themselves” without the US, said German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Her latest remarks follow criticism from French President Emmanuel Macron.

German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Tuesday said it was an “illusion” to think that …

The United States will draw down forces in Afghanistan and Iraq by Jan. 15, 2021, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller said today at the Pentagon.

Miller announced the drawdown of troops to 2,500 in Afghanistan and 2,500 in Iraq during his first appearance in the Pentagon briefing room….