On June 13, 2023, two warships INS ‘Anjadip’, the 3rd of eight ships of indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), and INS ‘Sanshodhak’, the 4th and last in the series of Survey Vessels (Large) (SVL) Project, being built by M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) for Indian Navy, was launched at M/s…
Germany has approved an advance payment for the purchase of the Arrow 3 air defense system from Israel for nearly four billion euros ($4.3 billion). The budget committee in the lower house of parliament gave the green light for an initial payment of 560 million euros. The long-range Arrow 3 system, designed to shoot down…
New Zealand have signed a defence agreement with Fiji which aims at bolstering of military training and maritime security, and improving the disaster and humanitarian response co-ordination between the two Pacific nations. The agreement reflects the value New Zealand places on its relationship with Fiji. Against a backdrop of China’s efforts to gain influence across…
The Pakistan government has proposed a 15.5% increase in the defence budget for the current fiscal, making up about 1.7 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The defence spending in 2022-23 was around 2% of the country’s GDP, the size of which has grown due to the rebasing of the economy. Noteworthy that…
It has been reported by the Financial Times that the United States (US), Japan, and Taiwan have agreed to share real-time reconnaissance drone fleets data to strengthen military coordination. Notably, during the Trump presidency, the US announced more than US$5 billion (S$6.7 billion) in arms sales to Taiwan, including four aerial drones worth US$600 million,…
Israel exported a record $12.556 billion in defence products last year, witnessing a 50% increase over the previous three years and a doubling in volume over the previous decade. Drones accounted for 25% of the 2022 exports and missiles, rockets or air defence systems for 19%. Notably, Arab states that normalised ties with Israel under the…
NATO’s largest-ever air exercise - “Air Defender 2023” - involving 250 military aircraft and over 10,000 personnel has begun in Germany, Europe. The two-week long exercise will see fighter jets conducting defensive manoeuvers in German and European airspace under the command of the German Air Force. The military exercise will demonstrate the strength of NATO…
