Browsing: All news

C. Lee & J.

M.Co, the interpreter
As ASEAN builds new maritime institutions, it keeps leaving its strongest legal instrument off the table.

R.Wood, Proceedings
To rebuild the arsenal, the United States must align its shipbuilding ambitions with the industrial foundations needed to make them real.

Andreasen, MWI
assive defense does not mean a return to the static character of trench warfare and is not a substitute for maneuver.

F. P. Sempa, AllOTSEGO
The American colonies voted for independence on July 2nd, and the document was not completely signed by the members of Congress until August 2nd.

The United States Air Force has deployed dozens of additional KC-135 aerial refuelling aircraft to bases in Israel, as a major expansion of ongoing attacks on Iran is planned. According to multiple U.S. and Israeli officials cited by Axios, the decision follows a Situation Room meeting during which President Donald Trump reviewed a range of military options extending well beyond the current campaign focused on the Strait of Hormuz. The reinforcement would restore U.S. tanker numbers in Israel to levels comparable to those seen during the opening stages of the conflict in February-March.
U.S.

The Republic of China Army’s deployment of U.S.-supplied AH-1W Super Cobra lightweight attack helicopters for a deep-area dispersal exercise has drawn attention to the aircraft’s capabilities, which have long been overshadowed by the deliveries of heavier and more capable AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to the service.

Canada has agreed to join the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) stealth fighter program, which is currently being led by the United Kingdom and Japan, which represents a major landmark efforts by Ottawa to diversify its defence partnerships and procurements away from the United States. This follows reports in early April Canada had sought to join as an observer, which would allow the Canadian Defence Ministry to access selected classified program information without joining the development phase or sharing a similar burden of development costs.

The United States is undertaking a major expansion of production for the FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air defence system (MANPADS), seeking to replenish depleted inventories while meeting growing demand from NATO allies and non-NATO strategic partners. The effort reflects a broader reassessment within the Pentagon that recent conflicts have demonstrated the continued importance of short-range air defence weapons against helicopters, low-flying aircraft, cruise missiles, and increasingly against unmanned aerial vehicles.

The U.S. Navy’s first stealth destroyer the USS Zumwalt is being prepared to return to operational service following a lengthy modernisation program that has transformed it into the Navy’s first surface combatant equipped to deploy long-range hypersonic weapons. After years of delays linked to upgrades to its integrated power system and other technical challenges, the ship is expected to rejoin the fleet with the new Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS) capability, providing the Navy with an entirely new long-range strike option for operations in the Pacific theatre.