Taiwan launched the first of a new 10,000-ton class of multimission amphibious ships Yu Shan at the shipyard of the state-owned shipbuilder CSBC Corporation in Kaohsiung port city on Tuesday. This ship will be delivered to the Navy in 2022
Foreign troops under NATO command will leave Afghanistan as part of the drawdown, following the United States suit. “Standing shoulder to shoulder, we have paid a high price in both blood and in treasure
Iran has begun enriching Uranium Hexafluoride to the purity level of 60% in newer generation of centrifuge machines at the Natanz nuclear facility and will accumulate the product next week, Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Kazem Gharibabadi, said Wednesday. “This will improve significantly both the quality and quantity of radiopharmaceutical products,” he added
An agreement to deploy a Greek Patriot missile system in Saudi Arabia could be signed when top Greece officials visit Riyadh next week. On April 20, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and National Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos are scheduled to arrive in the Saudi capital
Youth Daily News, a publication run by the Taiwan Defense ministrys Political Warfare Bureau released images of a secret radar that can detect stealth aircraft- presumably aimed at Chinas J-20 aircraft. The article has since been deleted but not before it caused considerable uproar within the ministry and reportedly angered Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today awarded General Atomics $22.16 million for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) - Track A program
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Indonesia has started building marine combat force headquarters in Natuna Island, scene of earlier showdowns with Vietnam and China. The headquarters of the Marine Combat Force of the First Fleet Command will be part of the Combat Operations Executive Command in western Indonesia
Philippine fighter aircraft flying over Chinese fishing boats “taking shelter from the weather” near a Chinese reef in the South China Sea are inappropriate, and might inflame tensions and risk accidents, Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times has claimed. However, Philippines has said the so called fishing boats are “trespassing” in seas within Manilas exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) has commissioned a new type of amphibious armored rescue vehicle for valley-spread high-altitude border regions like Galwan Valley. The vehicles entered service with PLA Xinjiang Military Command forces stationed in plateau regions