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Bruce Allen Lubbering, RealClearDefense The Industrial Reality of Ukraine’s Leopard 1 Conversions Source link

When the Chinese Buddhist monk Faxian traveled to India during the Gupta era over 1,600 years ago, he described what he saw as a sort of paradise: The inhabitants are prosperous and happy. There are no Boards of Population and Revenue. Those only who farm the Royal demesnes pay a portion of the produce as rent. Nor are they bound to remain in possession longer than they like. The King in the administration of justice, inflicts no corporal punishment; but each culprit is fined in money according to the gravity of his offence; and even in cases where the culprit…

The Indian Navy has officially retired its legendary Sea King MK-42B helicopter fleet, marking the end of an era for one of its most iconic squadrons.The historic Indian Naval Air Squadron 330, known as the “Harpoons,” has been “number plated” after more than five decades of distinguished service.The ceremonial final flight of the Sea King Bravo helicopters took place from INS Shikra, the Western Naval Command base in Colaba, Mumbai. While the MK-42B variant has been retired, other configurations of the Sea King will continue to operate within the Navy’s rotary wing fleet.The Sea King helicopters, often referred to as the “Flying…

Chris Phillips, Small Wars Journal Successful organizations operate according to assumptions about how success is achieved. Source link

The federal government’s Pakistan defence budget for FY2026-27 has landed at roughly PKR 3 trillion — about $10.76 billion — a near 18% increase (17.65%) over last year and the largest allocation Pakistan has ever set in real dollar terms. Yet the headline number hides the real story. The rupee’s slide has quietly eaten into those dollar gains, and the “physical assets” line jumped 39% — the kind of signal that usually points to a big procurement year ahead. So is this the long-awaited evidence of a J-35 stealth fighter purchase that everyone keeps asking about? In the latest episode…

Kuomintang (KMT) chair Cheng Li-wun returned to Taiwan on June 16, ending a two-week trip to the United States. The trip comes shortly on the heels of Cheng’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in April, which significantly boosted Cheng’s international profile. Her meeting with Xi took place a month before U.S. President Donald Trump’s own summit with the Chinese leader.  Although Cheng stated ahead of time that she hoped to meet with Trump, this ultimately did not occur. Before traveling to Washington as part of her trip, Cheng aimed to flatter the U.S. president, stating that he…

American analyst Michael Rubin has sharply criticised Pakistan’s role as mediator in the US-Iran peace process, likening it to relying on fascist Italy to solve the Nazi problem during World War II. He warned that Islamabad’s history of betrayal makes it untrustworthy and accused it of deliberately prolonging tensions for its own gain.Michael Rubin, Director of Policy Analysis at the Middle East Forum, argued that Pakistan’s involvement in the ongoing diplomatic engagement between Washington and Tehran is fundamentally flawed.He stated that Donald Trump has been misled not only by Iran’s negotiating tactics but also by his choice of mediators, particularly…

Global Defense News The U.S. Air Force’s 325th Security Forces Squadron (SFS) has demonstrated new kinetic counter-drone capabilities Source link

PARIS — L3Harris today signed an agreement with Turkish drone manufacturer Skydagger to establish co-production of first-person-view drone interceptors in the US for integration into the American firm’s Vampire counter-drone system. The two companies signed the memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the Eurosatory trade show, where counter-drone capabilities have emerged as a major topic of interest. Under the framework, there will be a transfer of expertise and technology that will allow localized manufacturing of the Turkish-designed FPV interceptors, L3Harris’s Mike Spina, told Breaking Defense.  “We aim to complete the integration of the new capabilities [on the VAMPIRE C-UxS…

More people are being killed or maimed by antipersonnel landmines in Myanmar than in any other country in the world.  There were as many as 2,029 casualties in the country in 2025, almost double the number reported the previous year. Myanmar’s military has been using antipersonnel landmines for several decades. A new trend since the military coup of February 2021 is that such mines are being used by non-state armed groups of the resistance as well, Landmine Monitor has noted. The impact of antipersonnel landmines and unexploded ordnance has been particularly severe on Myanmar’s children. According to UNICEF, over 20…