India in race with China to launch first indigenous aircraft carrier
An Indian Navy source has confirmed that the Indian government will launch its first ever indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier on Aug. 12. If so, India would be (more…)
Egypt’s counter-insurgency offensive, begun under Morsi, intensifies
WASHINGTON — Egypt assigned an Army general in May to head the counter-insurgency mission in the Sinai Peninsula, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy identified (more…)
Reacting to Hayden interview, Huawei tells U.S. to ‘just shut up’
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei issued a statement hours after a former U.S. senior intelligence official confirmed that Huawei had indeed spied for the Chinese government. Gen. Michael Hayden (more…)
Russia conducts ‘snap combat drill’ of its Strategic Missile Force
Days after a massive ground force-based drill in the Russian Far East, Moscow ordered another high profile “snap combat drill” in the Caucasus region, this time involving its Strategic (more…)
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…)