Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová has disclosed that her country is in the process of advancing negotiations with Germany for a joint acquisition of Leopard 2A8 tanks. Simultaneously, talks are nearing completion for the purchase of C-390 Millennium transport aircraft and F-35 Lightning II fighter jets
Boeing has delivered the first Orca Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) to the U.S Navy after completing acceptance testing this month
In a move to reinforce support for the Ukrainian armed forces, the German Bundeswehr has activated a call-off for 155mm artillery ammunition from Rheinmetall, pursuant to an existing framework agreement. Rheinmetall, under this contract, is set to supply a substantial quantity of various artillery shells, with the order valued in the three-digit million euros range
A lieutenant colonel from Taiwan Armys Aviation and Special Forces Command has been arrested by prosecutors for allegedly planning to defect to China by flying a CH-47F Chinook helicopter to a Chinese aircraft carrier near the median line of the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense announced on December 11 that proactive measures have been implemented to thwart Chinese espionage activities
In the most recent test conducted by the U.S
In a ceremony overseen by Army Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, Iranian air defense units officially received domestically developed Karrar drones equipped with air-to-air missiles on Sunday. These Majid missiles, designed for the interception of hostile aerial targets, offer a cost-effective alternative to deploying manned jet fighters for such operations, Iranian state-owned media reported
The Ministry of National Defense in Poland has approved the procurement of 152 Krab self-propelled howitzers, with the officially approved contract valued at around PLN 10 billion ($2.5 billion) on December 8
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Harvard-led researchers in DARPA's Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program have created the first-ever quantum circuit with logical quantum bits (qubits), a key discovery that could accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing and revolutionize concepts for designing quantum computer processors. The ONISQ program began in 2020 seeking to demonstrate a quantitative advantage of quantum information processing by leapfrogging the performance of classical-only supercomputers to solve a particularly challenging class of problem known as combinatorial optimization
Lockheed Martin fired eight Spike NLOS AURs from the U.S