Indian Ambassador to Moscow Bala Venkatesh Varma said Monday that Russia has moved back again as the top defense partner of India. “There has been a fundamental change in how our defense relationship has moved on in the last 3 years
The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (FMA) signed two contracts worth MNOK 1,426 (nearly $170 million) for the delivery of a new batch of Naval Strike Missiles (NSMs) and maintenance of existing inventory of these missiles. The new NSMs will be armed on the Navys frigates and corvettes
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French Direction générale de larmement (DGA) has qualified Thales-made Sea Fire digital radar for use on the Navys future FDI frigates. The radar is now handed over to Naval Group for integration into combat system on-board the FDI frigates, Thales announced Thursday
Sudans main opposition coalition has called for civil disobedience and protests across the country after the military, headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, dissolved the transitional government and seized power on Monday. The takeover came more than two years after protesters forced the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir
China has claimed that Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) sent aircraft and vessels to follow Chinese-Russian naval flotilla and gather intelligence during their first ever joint sea patrol held over the past week. The China-Russia joint warship flotilla featuring 10 warships and six carrier-based helicopters carried out the first joint maritime patrol between the two countries' navies in the Sea of Japan, the West Pacific and the East China Sea from October 17 to Saturday, during which they organized exercises over joint sea-crossing, joint maneuvers and live-fire weapon shooting, the Chinese Defense Ministry said
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The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently held an integrated military-civilian cross-sea troop maneuvering exercise using Asias largest civilian ferry with a displacement of 45,000 tons. The ship, Chinese Rejuvenation ferry, set out from an undisclosed port on Thursday night and arrived on Friday morning at the destination port, which is set near railways, with temporary train platforms established
Russia will supply unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for monitoring oil pipelines and detecting oil spills in Venezuela as per a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed during the XV Russian-Venezuelan Intergovernmental Commission in Moscow earlier this week. The signing of the MoU took place in the presence of the head of the Venezuelan delegation, Minister of People's Power for Industry and National Production Jorge Appeaca and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov
The French Navys High Seas Patroller (PHM) Commandant Ducuing and the Italian frigate Marceglia were both deployed to the Gulf o Guinea to test the Coordinated Maritime Presence (CMP) concept first launched in 2020. Eight complex exercises were carried out in around ten hours of cooperation, demonstrating the very good level of interoperability of the two European navies, the French defense ministry said in a statement