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Workers prepare MUOS 4 for a scheduled launch. (ULA)
US Air Force (USAF) and US Space Force (USSF) officials are looking to mature narrowband satellite communications (NB satcom) capabilities as one of several ongoing efforts within the air service and elsewhere to transition from the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) capability to a new NB satcom-driven architecture.

US Air Force armourers handle a JASSM-ER missile of the type that Finland is to acquire for its F-35As. (US DoD)
Finland is to acquire additional Lockheed Martin AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile – Extended Range (JASSM-ER) systems, Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen announced on 31 May.

Guest post by George Mcclellan
Who is not surprised that Donald Trump was just convicted of how many was it, 34 felonies in a NY Court on flimsy misdemeanor charges that expired years ago? In a single instant, Joe Biden’s Leftist Progressive government has thrown away America’s moral authority to speak ill of how other governments perform. For Americans, it has proven that Justice no longer applies and that this evil regime of Joe Biden must, in the end, be destroyed. But that’s how the Left thinks.

A Repkon furnace starts the metal part production for the 155 mm artillery shell at the GD-OTS facility in Mesquite, Texas. (Janes/Meredith Roaten)
While the US Army is chipping away at its 100,000 rounds of 155 mm per month production goal, the time it takes to kick-start the production of energetics and propellants for different munitions is still a challenge for the service and the defence industry, an army official told Janes on 29 May.

UK companies Babcock and Hobson Industries will initially focus on ways to increase Land Rover Wolf availability in the British Army.

North Korea launched a salvo of 600 mm “super-large” multiple rocket launchers – towards the Sea of Japan (East Sea) – similar to its March 2024 launch pictured above on a TV at Seoul’s Yongsan Railway Station. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty)
The Korean People’s Army (KPA) fired a salvo of 18 nuclear-capable 600 mm “super-large” rockets towards the Sea of Japan (East Sea) on 30 May, according to a statement published by Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) the next day.

The enhancement of the Nackeroo Airstrip will allow Australia and the United States to land numbers of Boeing C-17As and Bell Boeing MV-22s at the site. (Commonwealth of Australia)
Australia’s Nackeroo Airstrip has been upgraded to support the operations of large transport aircraft for training exercises, the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has said.
Nackeroo Airstrip is located within Australia’s Bradshaw Field Training Area in the Northern Territory.

Army T.
The Universal Artillery Production Facility will be flexible in production of ammunition ranging from 60mm to 155mm with minimal changeover.
The U.S.

The cut in New Zealand’s 2024–25 military expenditure is one of the deepest in the country’s annual defence spending since the start of Janes Defence Budgets records in 2005. (Janes Defence Budgets)
New Zealand has announced a 2024–25 defence budget of NZD5.88 billion (USD3.60 billion), a decline of about 20% against the final budgeted expenditure of NZD7.37 billion in 2023–24.
The total budget consists of a ‘Vote Defence Force’ allocation of NZD5.04 billion and a ‘Vote Defence’ appropriation of NZD839.8 million.

PT PAL’s submarine building and MRO facility at Surabaya, which was visited by
Janes
on 30 May 2024.
(PT PAL )
PT PAL has begun preliminary talks with a South Asian navy, which could see the Indonesian state-owned shipyard carrying out its first-ever submarine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) works for a foreign customer.
This development was disclosed by Commodore Wiranto (retd), the general manager for PT PAL’s Submarine Division, during a meeting with Janes at its shipyard in Surabaya on 30 May.