Browsing: All news

Germany-based Rheinmetall has signed contracts with two unnamed European Nato customers for the delivery of 40mm ammunition.
The contracts are valued at more than €30m. The latest orders expand Rheinmetall’s strategic position in the European market.
The first European Nato customer has signed a framework contract to deliver up to 300,000 rounds of 40mm ammunition.

The company will also supply low velocity (LV) and high velocity (HV) ammunition variants.
In addition, Rheinmetall has already received a first call-off of approximately 75,000 cartridges from the customer.

Ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship radio communications systems have been around for a long time, but over the last couple of decades or so, they lost some of their lustre when digital communication systems began to gain prominence due to ease of use and cost benefits.
And why not?
Digital communications, using inexpensive mobile handsets which can connect people via satellites that cover the whole globe, are ubiquitous. In a relatively short time, they took over as the preferred method of voice and data transmissions for almost all walks of life.

But there is a caveat.

Deveraux & Pelham IV, RealClearDefense

Naval News
An industry team led by Serco is continuing to progress detail design of a highly autonomous experimental uncrewed surface craft ahead of beginning prototype construction later…

Sam LaGrone, USNI News
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S.

Forbes
On December 5, the U.S.

Stew Magnuson, National Defense Magazine
ARLINGTON, Virginia — The Navy has settled on the topline requirements for its future DDG(X) surface combatant, a senior service…

The UK and Japan have signed a Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) that will expedite security and defence cooperation between the two nations.
The bilateral agreement was finalised during Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit to London on 11 January, where he met his British counterpart, Rishi Sunak.
The defence agreement involves the establishment of rules related to joint legal and logistics concerns that will lay the foundation for increasing bilateral military exchanges and training.

Understand the impact of the Ukraine conflict from a cross-sector perspective with the Global Data Executive Briefing: Ukraine Conflict

Lithuania and Poland have confirmed that they will provide additional military assistance to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces in their battle against the Russian invasion.
The announcement comes as the Presidents of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine came together during the Second Summit of the Lublin Triangle in Lviv, Ukraine, on 11 January.

Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Japan focused on the threat from the Soviet Union, but with tensions increasing around Taiwan, Tokyo has turned to its south, adopting principles that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed for before his death.  This week’s events are the latest in this trend, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s […]
The post Japan’s Shift to War Footing appeared first on War on the Rocks.