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Popular perceptions of Kashmir center on soldiers, checkpoints, and decades-old fights over land. Sometimes tourism edges into the discourse. Far less attention is paid to the fact that Kashmir’s mountains are heating up rapidly. A new study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports pulled together and analyzed 45 years of weather records from 1980 to 2024 and collected surface temperature records from ten India Meteorological Department stations. It found that the high mountain towns of Pahalgam and Gulmarg, which are also famous tourist sites, have warmed by nearly a full degree Celsius in just the last 20 years. One town, Bhaderwah,…

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FARNBOROUGH — BAE Systems today revealed the Brontanax, a new collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) loyal wingman drone designed for use by the United Kingdom. The drone, roughly the size of a BAE Hawk trainer jet, was unveiled with newly-installed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting at hand during the third day of the Farnborough Airshow. Brontanax is “intended to provide electronic warfare and precision strike capabilities against airborne and ground targets,” per a company release. Its release comes days after British officials announced a plan for UK-developed CCAs under the “Storm Fighter” moniker. Streeting hailed the unveiling of Brontanax or Thunder King as…

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Mathieu Boulègue – senior fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and co-author of “The China-Russia Meta Threat: The Architecture of Authoritarian Power” (CEPA 2026) – is the 518th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.” How have China-Russia relations changed since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022? I think the relationship evolved significantly after 2014 and Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine,…

China just fired another shot in the most important technological competition of the 21st century – and Washington should pay attention. Last week, Chinese startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a powerful open-source AI model that independent evaluators say rivals or even exceeds some of the latest systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. At nearly the same moment, Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before an international audience in Shanghai and proclaimed that artificial intelligence should not be “a solo performance by a single country but a symphony of global collaboration.” This was no coincidence. China is making a strategic bet that…

Home › North America › Embraer and Anduril to Integrate Palletized Barracuda-500M Cruise Missiles on the C-390 North America Embraer and Anduril signed an MoU at Farnborough to integrate the palletized Barracuda-500M cruise missile on the C-390 Millennium airlifter. Embraer and the United States defence-technology firm Anduril Industries have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to integrate the pallet-launched Barracuda-500M stand-off cruise missile onto the C-390 Millennium airlifter. The agreement, announced at the Farnborough International Airshow on 21 July, would hand the tactical transport its first offensive strike role. Under the MoU, the two firms would load the Barracuda-500M –…

Home › Europe › European Defence News › Raytheon UK Unveils Red Kite, a Sovereign Glide Weapon Built on StormBreaker for the RAF European Defence News Raytheon UK unveiled Red Kite at Farnborough, a sovereign glide weapon built on the StormBreaker airframe to give the RAF affordable stockpile mass. Raytheon UK has unveiled Red Kite, described by the company as its first sovereign precision weapon fully designed and digitally engineered in the United Kingdom. The glide weapon was announced at the Farnborough International Airshow on 21 July, after an embargoed briefing for journalists at the firm’s Harlow site. Red Kite…

Home › Europe › European Defence News › MBDA Launches Counter Mass Interceptor, a Low-Cost Counter-Drone Effector for Surface-Launched ASRAAM European Defence News MBDA launched the Counter Mass Interceptor at Farnborough, a low-cost counter-drone effector paired with its combat-proven surface-launched ASRAAM system. MBDA has launched the Counter Mass Interceptor (CMI), which the company describes as a mass-producible, low-cost effector for fire-and-forget engagements at range and altitude. The interceptor was unveiled at the Farnborough International Airshow, paired with an upgrade to the firm’s ground-launched Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) air-defence system. The name signals the intent: the CMI is built to…

FARNBOROUGH — RTX subsidiary Raytheon is studying how to proceed after President Donald Trump announced that the US would grant a license for building the firm’s high-demand Patriot interceptors in Ukraine, a top executive said Monday, while cautioning that talks are still early. “That process has just started,” Tom Laliberty, Raytheon’s president of land and air defense systems, told reporters during a briefing at the Farnborough Airshow here on the outskirts of London. “And we’ll of course be following the United States government’s lead” on licensing, he added.  Missiles for the Patriot system — which itself consists of an RTX…

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) EDGE Group builds its defence supply chain by acquiring controlling stakes in foreign companies and leaving them to operate in place.  The group holds 13 international acquisitions and strategic investments alongside 23 joint ventures (JV), integrates their outputs at the corporate level, and performs weapons integration and final assembly in the UAE through subsidiaries such as Halcon and ADASI. This differs from the standard route to a defence industry, i.e., indigenization, under which a state pulls design, production, and suppliers inside its own borders over several decades.  EDGE treats ownership – rather than location –…