Chinese state media has provided details on the testing of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s new certification trials for a new terminal air-defence and anti-missile system in the Bohai Sea. The trails tested the system’s interception capability under complex electromagnetic conditions, including against ultra-low-altitude penetration targets.
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Honolulu, HI – MG Cai Dexian, Chief Of Army, Singapore Armed Forces gave a speech on the transformation of his nation’s military during LANPAC 2026.
AFP was there to report.
Dexian focused on three areas he expects his soldiers to keep in mind — Be resilient, dynamic, and rooted in your family, culture and country.
I’m paraphrasing some highlights…
“It’s important to be resilient in many areas…individual soldiers, but also as a nation, and that means partnering with local industry to expand domestic defense manufacturing, 3D printing.
Following confirmation in late April that the Canadian Defence Ministry has continued to extend its review of plans to procure 88 F-35A fighters from the United States, there have been multiple indications that a fighter developed under the joint British, Japanese and Italian Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) is a leading candidate to modernise the Canadian combat fleet. Partners in the GCAP were confirmed in April to be coordinating plans for Canada’s inclusion, with the program intended to deliver a fighter ready for active service by 2035.
A long-planned deployment of an Army long-range fire battalion to Germany has been canceled, a defense official confirmed to Task & Purpose.
The 3rd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment had been scheduled to deploy to Germany later this year as part of episodic deployments of long-range fire capabilities that both countries announced in July 2024, Task & Purpose has confirmed. Now, several hundred soldiers from the Fort Drum, New York, unit are in limbo.
The Defense Department announced a batch of agreements with companies Wednesday that aim for the procurement of at least 10,000 inexpensive cruise missiles within three years.
Under the new Low-Cost Containerized Missiles (LCCM) program, Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos and Zone 5 Technologies will provide test missiles to the Pentagon to begin an experimentation and assessment campaign this June, according to a DOD news release. If all goes to plan, the department will begin purchasing weapons from the vendors in 2027 under firm fixed material-unit costs included in the agreements.
EDGE Group, the defence conglomerate based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has put forward a proposal to acquire a controlling share in Italy’s Costruzioni Motori Diesel (CMD).
Throughout history, there have been moments when sports represented something far greater than athletic competition.
As the world drifted toward World War II, the two heavyweight boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling became symbolic clashes between democracy and fascism, with the African American Louis avenging his earlier defeat to the German Schmeling.
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Their legendary rivalry is the focus of “The Clash of Nations: Joe Louis vs.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a crisis in isolation. It is a data point in a larger story American defense planners can no longer afford to read slowly.
I spent over three decades in the United States Navy, much of it operating in and around the Arabian Gulf and the approaches to Hormuz. The Fifth Fleet lives in that water. Our carriers, destroyers, and aviation assets have been the guarantor of freedom of navigation for the global economy that moves through those 21 miles.
What is unfolding now is an inconvenient truth.
The Army is buying rifle-mounted smart scopes that soldiers can use to shoot down small drones, similar to the advanced fire control systems being used by Marines.
Smart Shooter recently announced that it had received a $10.7 million contract from the Army for its SMASH 2000LE fire control systems and related support services, a company news release says. The smart scopes are scheduled to be delivered between July and September.
Neither the company nor the Army specified how many systems the service is buying under the contract.
Russia has reportedly made four major modifications to the conventional Kh-101 cruise missile so often used in its hybrid salvos.