Australia will boost defence spending by A$50.3 billion ($32 billion) over the next decade and reshuffle its weapons programs to emphasise missiles, drones and warships as it looks to the possibility of a Pacific conflict between China and the U.S. The bulk of the new spending, part of a A$330 billion decade-long budget, will only…
The Ministry of Defense of Honduras has acquired two additional Airbus H145 helicopters, which will be operated by the Honduran Air Force to perform passenger and cargo transport, search and rescue, firefighting, medical evacuation, and other essential missions in the region. This new purchase follows an initial order signed in April 2023 for two H145s that will…
The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Army Training Command (ARTRAC), Lt Gen Manjinder Singh, has said that the war between Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas has been a learning experience for India, as it may face similar warfare practices from terror-hit regions on Pakistan’s borders. He said this at the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) investiture ceremony held at the…
China and India have made “positive progress” to resolve the border standoff, with both sides maintaining close communication through diplomatic and military channels, a senior foreign ministry official said last week. The foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning’s remarks were a further elaboration of China’s reaction to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement in which he…
On April 15, 2024 the Missile Defense Agency selected Lockheed Martin to deliver the nation’s new homeland missile defense capability, the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI). Lockheed Martin, as the MDA’s NGI prime contractor, will provide the most modern, reliable, and technically advanced interceptor in the history of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The multiple-kill…
Ahead of the seven-phased Lok Sabha polls beginning on April 19, 2024 the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unveiled its long-awaited manifesto titled ‘Modi ki guarantee’ Sankalp Patra. The manifesto outlines a roadmap to transform India into a developed country by 2047, including a pledge to introduce a ‘one nation, one election’ system and a…
For decades, Israel and Iran have fought a shadow war across the Middle East, trading attacks by land, sea, air and in cyberspace. The barrage of drones and missiles Iran launched at Israel on Saturday — though nearly all were shot down or intercepted — represented a watershed in the conflict. It was the first…
Iran achieved all of its objectives from the operation against Israel, said the chief of the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, after it conducted a massive attack on Israel days after a deadly strike on its Damascus consulate. The Iranian attack on Saturday, less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in Syria that killed…
Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles on April 14, 2024 in retaliation for Israel targeting its consulate and military generals in Syria earlier this month. While Israel is not believed to have suffered any major damage early on, Iran warned that a military move from Israel would be met with a “much…
Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, China is helping Russia ramp up its defence base at such a large scale that Moscow is now undertaking its most ambitious expansion in military manufacturing since the Soviet era, CNN reported, citing senior Biden administration officials. One of the official claimed that the Chinese and Russian entitles have…
