India gets 3rd stealth missile frigate from Russia
The Indian navy took delivery of a Trikand missile frigate from Russia in the Russian Baltic seaport of Kaliningrad on July 1. The ship was the last of the (more…)
Game changer: U.S. sets 2019 deployment for drone landing on carrier
The U.S. Navy’s unmanned combat air vehicle [UCAV] X-47B made a historic first landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on July 10. It (more…)
Sleeper agents planted during Cold War are sentenced in Germany
In a case reminiscent of the Cold War era, a German court near Stuttgart on July 2 sentenced two Russian agents, planted in West Germany during the 1980s and (more…)
Russia’s brisk arms trade business seen driving its foreign policy
Russia’s stubborn insistence on siding with the pariah regime of Bashar Assad in Syria highlights an important economic factor: Russia’s heavy dependence on its arms export industry at the (more…)
Pentagon buys M-17 Russian military helicopters for Afghan Army
On June 16, the U.S. Army and Russia’s state-owned defense company Rosoboronexport signed a contract in Paris to buy 30 Mi-17V5 helicopters. The 30 Mi-17V5 helicopters will be used primarily (more…)
Obama cancels Abe meeting at G8 in apparent deference to Beijing
On the eve of the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, President Barack Obama unilaterally canceled a one-on-one meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China’s official media hailed Obama’s (more…)
Pentagon buys M-17 Russian military helicopters for Afghan Army
On June 16, the U.S. Army and Russia’s state-owned defense company Rosoboronexport signed a contract in Paris to buy 30 Mi-17V5 helicopters. The 30 Mi-17V5 helicopters will be used (more…)
Turkey to buy Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) ships from China
Turkey, a NATO member nation, is seeking to buy two Chinese amphibious assault ships that are still in the design stage at the Dalian shipyard in Northeast China. Amphibious (more…)