Korea Aerospace Industries has won a tendency to supply Malaysia with light attack aircraft. The company has announced, marking the latest export of its line of light attack/trainer jets.
According to the South Korean company, the contract, valued at 920 million dollars, will involve the delivery of 18 FA-50s to the Southeast Asian country, the first of which is scheduled for 2026.
The FA-50 trumped the Tejas light combat aircraft, manufactured by the Indian company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., to meet the needs of Malaysia.
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Japan is going through a phase of militarization unprecedented in its postwar history, and its government has released a new version of its National Security Strategy. For the first time throughout the post-war period, it declared its intention to ” actively respond ” to what was happening in the region.
Under these goals, Tokyo has approved a record-breaking US $51 billion (approximately RMB) military budget since 1945 and plans to increase it to 2% of GDP (approximately 1076 billion U.S. dollars, which will be the third highest in the world after the United States and China ).
Joseph Clark, WashTimes
The Navy on Thursday laid to rest the remains of a 28-year-old sailor who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor, the culmination of decades of work to…
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Some of the US Navy’s leading contractors need to speed their deliveries of crucial munitions, including torpedoes and the service’s top air-defense missile, to be ready…
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A year since Russia invaded Ukraine, neither Putin’s goal for the war nor the reasons why America should care have changed.
Russia’s only aircraft carrier is finally running after roughly ten months of squatting at the Sevmorput naval shipyard in the country’s northwest. Known for her grim and disastrous history, Admiral Kuznetsov has suffered a series of unfortunate events since her reintroduction into service in 2017.
This week, a Russian state media outlet released footage of a tugboat pulling the large ship.
Country music star Brad Paisley is not one to shy away from supporting the military. He has even worn his grandfather’s WWII dog tags during concerts and makes references to military service in songs like, “Welcome to the Future,” “This is Country Music,” and “Love and War.” Although Paisley’s last album came out in 2017, he has released a non-album single every year since then until 2022. On February 24, 2023, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Paisley released a new single titled “Same Here.
(Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Iran, which has already shipped Russia hundreds of drones for use against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, stepped up its support this fall, sending artillery and tank rounds to Moscow in November, according to the White House National Security Council (NSC).
And, as Russia continues to press the full-on invasion it launched a year ago today, the relationship between Moscow and Tehran is increasing, John Kirby, the NSC spokesman, told reporters Friday morning.