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Today on The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) are joined by Editor-in-Chief Shannon Tiezzi to preview U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to China, where he’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. There’s a bevvy of possible agenda items, but Taiwan, trade and Iran are the most likely — and most important — matters to track. You can subscribe to The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; and watch the episode on YouTube. Source link

Pakistan has officially confirmed that Iranian military aircraft are stationed at its Nur Khan Airbase, despite attempting to deny allegations of collusion.This revelation has triggered distrust in Washington, with US officials and lawmakers questioning Islamabad’s credibility as a mediator in the US–Iran conflict.Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday rejecting reports by CBS News that exposed the presence of Iranian aircraft at Nur Khan Airbase near Rawalpindi. Yet, in attempting to dismiss the allegations, the statement inadvertently confirmed that Iranian planes are indeed parked on Pakistani soil.The ministry claimed that these aircraft arrived during the ceasefire period…

Rempfer, Task & Purpose The Coast Guard plans to grow its fleet of interdiction teams who hop onto… Source link

The Pentagon recently released a batch of previously classified imagery categorized as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Breaking Defense Editor-in-Chief Aaron Mehta and Air Warfare Reporter Michael Marrow unpack what’s new, what’s old, and what’s notably odd about this newly released collection, which includes some material dating back to the 1940s. Then Breaking Defense Europe’s Tim Martin speaks with correspondent Jonas Olsson, who just returned from a visit to BAE’s Hägglunds facility in northern Sweden, where he experienced what it’s like to drive the tracked CV90 armored combat vehicle. Source link

One of Pakistan’s currently in development air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs), the Rasoob 250, could open the way for changes in how the Pakistan Navy (PN), to an extent, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), and the Pakistan Army (PA) arm their platforms. The basic point is that munitions like the Rasoob 250 – and its sibling munition AZB-81LR – trade warhead mass for a more compact size. This allows the end-user to either deploy long-range strike capabilities from lightweight platforms or deploy more munitions from larger ones. To offset the reduced warhead mass, these new designs leverage more precise targeting –…

On May 10 this year, Pakistan’s Army Chief and Field Marshal Asim Munir addressed a high-profile ceremony at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi to mark the first anniversary of Pakistan’s Marka-e-Haq, its response to India’s Operation Sindoor in May 2025. In a speech that combined his reflection on the conflict, doctrinal changes on the future of warfare, and the country’s ambitions, Munir offered one of the most comprehensive official assessments yet of what Pakistan believes it achieved in last year’s confrontation with India and how it sees the future of warfare in the region. Following a terrorist attack in…

INS Taragiri, the fourth potent platform of the Project 17A class, was formally commissioned into the Indian Navy on 3 April 2026 at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, in the presence of Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh.The event marked a defining moment in India’s naval modernisation drive, with the warship hailed as a masterclass in modern shipbuilding and a symbol of India’s growing technological prowess, self-reliance, and formidable maritime power.The stealth frigate, displacing approximately 6,670 tons, has been designed by the Warship Design Bureau and built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) with the support of over 200 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises…

R. Jordan Prescott, RealClearDefense According to historian Robert Coram, the A-10… Source link

BELFAST and MILAN — Russia’s Victory Day parade in Red Square over the weekend came and went without the usual accompaniment of high-end weapon systems and power projection that has long symbolized the annual event, as Moscow decided to scale back on both hardware and military personnel amid fears of a Ukrainian attack. While normally defense analysts use the parade to gauge Russian military and technical prowess, several told Breaking Defense that this year the lack of gear showed something else: Moscow’s implicit acknowledgement that Ukrainian capabilities remains a serious threat, more than four years since Russia’s invasion. One described…

The Modi government has built its foreign policy around the claim that India has graduated from hedging to civilizational confidence. Its deepening rapprochement with Beijing since Donald Trump’s return to the White House suggests the opposite. New Delhi has hedged more toward China without articulating any condition under which it would hedge back. Beijing noticed, as is clear from a recent revelation. On May 8, China’s state broadcaster CCTV aired interviews with two engineers from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), confirming for the first time that Chinese technical personnel were physically present at Pakistani operational bases during the…