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The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) for major live-fire exercises near Mount Fuji, Japan, demonstrating the ability to rapidly redeploy launchers and delivery precision fires from austere positions. Equipment and ammunition was transported by air and sea, with HIMARS having been specifically designed to be highly compact allowing launchers to be rapidly redeployed by C-17 or C-5 transports to forward locations in strength.
In 2024, when Jiangsu Delong, the world’s second-largest stainless-steel producer, filed for bankruptcy, several Chinese firms and state-owned enterprises quietly absorbed its Indonesian assets. Among them was China First Heavy Industries, a state-owned enterprise founded in 1954 as one of China’s early Soviet-backed industrial projects. Today, China First Heavy Industries supplies military-grade metals to China’s military, including reactor vessels for nuclear submarines.
Sea control has changed. In recent years, there has been a quiet revolution in maritime strategy that has seen navies increasingly expected to exert greater levels of control over more of the world’s oceans, more of the time.
When news broke that North Korea had revised its constitution, analysts in the West and across the Korean Peninsula rushed to declare it the formal death of Korean reunification as a policy objective. The changes were hard to ignore. Pyongyang stripped all references to a unified Korean nation, codified a territorial clause treating the Republic of Korea as a separate foreign state, vested direct nuclear weapons authority in Kim Jong-un personally, and concentrated near-absolute executive power in the supreme leader alone.
The Italian Air Force has deployed F-35B fifth generation fighter aircraft to conduct highway operations in Finland for the first time, operating the aircraft from the Finnish Air Force’s dispersed road base network to simulate dispersal in a high intensity conflict situation. The fighters operated from the Jokioinen alternate landing site in Kanta-Hame, approximately 200 kilometres from the Russian border. These operations reflected a broader U.S.
Delays to the development of the Indian Tejas lightweight fourth generation fighter have caused serious and worsening issues for Indian Air Force’s combat capabilities, resulting in both the missing of targets for the size of the fighter fleet by a considerable margin, and in major increases to the average age of currently serving fighter types.
General Designer at Russia’s largest tank producer the Uralvagonzavod Group, Andrey Terlikov, has provided new details on the future of the T-90M main battle tank program and the vehicle’s future modernisation potential. Assessing that the tank is performing excellently during operations in the Ukrainian theatre, he projected that it continue to be modernised for a decade. Referring to the baseline T-90 variant, he observed: “The tank was developed in the 1990s. Its service life is at least 50 years.
L Todd Wood and former Special Mission Unit Commander Pete Blaber discuss the Iran conflict, and how Europe is pushing for war with Russia as the Ukraine conflict may be coming to an end.
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