The United States has refused to sell its F-35 stealth fighters to Thailand over training issues and technical requirements, the Southeast Asian country’s Air Force said on Thursday.
Designated by the United States as a major non-NATO ally in 2003, Thailand had set aside a budget of 13.8 billion baht ($407.68 million) last year to purchase new fighters to replace the F-5s and F-16, American-made.
The goal was to purchase eight Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters.
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Raytheon is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth up to $147 million contract to support the Navy’s Future Advanced Strike (FAST) effort with a modified Coyote Block 3 unmanned aerial system, the Department of Defense announced late Thursday.
The award will enable the completion of design modifications currently underway for the Coyote Block 3 drone, as the sea service pursues new intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike capabilities, according to the announcement.
The themes portrayed in “Still in Saigon” resonate with any veteran who has seen combat, no matter the era.
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The airbase of Kingsley Field, in Klamath Falls, Oregon, will now replace its current F-15C/D Eagles with F-35As. The move comes just a few years after it was officially announced that the base would convert over to the F-15EX and that its 173rd Fighter Wing would continue its mantle as an F-15 training unit.
Now, just as we have suspected would be the case, the Air Force has decided to transfer all Eagle training, both for the F-15EX and F-15E, to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
Iskander Tactical Missile System
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On Thursday, despite urgent warnings from the U.S. and other Western allies, Belarus and Russia signed an agreement to formalize the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory as part of the formation of what the two countries have called a ‘union state.’
Now, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced that Russia is already in the process of transferring some of its non-strategic nuclear weapons to Belarus.
Excalibur Army displayed its MR-2 Viktor light air-defence vehicle at IDET 2023. (Janes/Nicholas Fiorenza)
The Excalibur Army MR-2 Viktor light air-defence vehicle displayed at the International Defence and Security Technology Fair (IDET) 2023 held in Brno, Czech Republic, from 24 to 26 May is being supplied to Ukraine.
An Excalibur Army representative told
Janes
on 24 May that two batches totalling 10 to 20 vehicles had been delivered during the fourth quarter of 2022 and that 130 to 140 were planned.
Stirling Castle
has started sea trials with the RFA after completing its conversion into a mother ship for offboard autonomous mine countermeasure payloads.
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The UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) new minehunting mother ship started sea trials with Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) personnel after completing its military conversion from an oil rig offshore support vessel (OSV).
Stirling Castle
(ex-MV
Island Crown
) was purchased second-hand from Island Offshore Management for GBP40 million (USD49.
A model of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency’s Tun Fatimah-class offshore patrol vessel displayed at LIMA 2023. (Janes/Nishant Kumar)
Malaysian shipbuilder TH Heavy Engineering (THHE) expects to deliver the first of three Tun Fatimah-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in July 2023, a spokesperson for MMEA confirmed to Janes at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) Exhibition 2023 in Malaysia.
The first Tun Fatimah-class OPV was launched in October 2022, five years after its keel was laid down.
The Department of Defense sent its new classified cyber strategy to Congress this week, the Pentagon said Friday.
The highly anticipated strategy is the first since 2018 and follows the release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy in March.
The DOD also publicly released an unclassified “fact sheet” on Friday, and said an unclassified “summary” will be provided in the “coming months.”
Of note, the fact sheet explains that the updated strategy is based upon real-world operations.
There are dozens of things that military video games get wrong about warfare. But these 7 that you likely missed.
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