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Japan’s Ministry of Defense said on July 21 that a Chinese naval vessel had conducted a machine-gun firing exercise two days earlier inside Japan’s claimed EEZ in the Pacific. It was first time the ministry has publicly announced a case involving a foreign warship conducting a live-fire exercise inside Japan’s EEZ. According to the Joint Staff, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force detected three Chinese vessels – the Type 055 (Renhai-class) destroyer Anshan, the Type 052D (Luyang III-class) destroyer Kaifeng, and the Type 903A replenishment ship Kekexilihu – and the Russian Navy’s Steregushchiy-class frigate Rezkiy sailing northeast about 330 kilometers southwest…

Space News The maximum value of the National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 contract was raised from $5.6 billion to $17 billion Source link

FARNBOROUGH — General Atomics will propose a new, clean-sheet aircraft for the Pentagon’s Massed Modular Aircraft project for a cheap hunter-killer drone, but the CEO of its aeronautics division is skeptical that competing companies will be able to achieve the lower end of the cost target laid out by the Defense Innovation Unit. In a Monday interview at Farnborough Airshow, Dave Alexander said he was “1,000 percent confident” the legacy dronemaker will be able to hit a number within the price range specified by DIU, but that the Pentagon will need to relax its bid requirements for certified pricing if…

FARNBOROUGH, UK—U.S. lawmakers sounded alarms about the fate of this year’s Pentagon budget while attending Europe’s largest airshow and said the Trump administration’s top defense priorities, including the Golden Dome missile defense program, are in peril.A bipartisian congressional delegation at the Farnborough International Airshow told reporters on Monday that the gridlock surrounding this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, an Iran war supplemental, and additional funding measures likely portends acontinuing resolution: a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open at the current year’s spending levels.“We’re not going to get an NDAA bill done anytime soon,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said.…

Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, unveiled a small developmental turbofan engine ACPs and effectors during the Farnborough Airshow. Source link

It has been almost a decade now since Beijing announced its revised Arctic strategy, particularly focused on the development of the Polar Silk Road (PSR), a segment of the Belt and Road Initiative originally conceived as an emerging “blue economic channel” connecting Europe with Northeast Asia via the Northern Sea Route. The PSR would later be incorporated into Beijing’s 2018 governmental White Paper on the Arctic, as China sought to “understand, protect, develop, and participate in the governance” of the far north, while positioning itself as a “near-Arctic state” and regional stakeholder. While maintaining emphasis on Arctic scientific cooperation, China…

Sam LaGrone, USNI News The new organization that will oversee surface shipbuilding for the U.S. Navy and one Coast Guard program has reached its initial operational capability Source link

FARNBOROUGH — Today Canada officially joined the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) as its first “observer,” granting it “privileged access” to capability development, industrial cooperation, and long-term delivery plans, British Chief of Defense Wes Streeting said.  Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty, who spoke alongside Streeting as well as the defense leaders from other GCAP participating nations Italy and Japan said the new status “will provide us with the opportunity to deepen our understanding of next-generation combat air capability, strengthen industrial collaboration, and contribute more closely to partnerships that will define the future of airpower.” GCAP is the sole remaining active…

Embraer and Anduril plan to integrate B-500M stand-off cruise missile into the C-390 Millennium. Credit: Embraer. Embraer has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Anduril to jointly pursue the integration of the latter’s Barracuda-500M (B-500M) stand-off cruise missile onto its C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft. The agreement was signed on 20 July 2026 at the Farnborough Airshow. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The collaboration aims to enhance the operational flexibility of the C-390 Millennium by enabling it to launch palletised Barracuda-500M…

Across South and Southeast Asia, climate action is being subverted by a deliberate, calculated strategy: the weaponization of climate disinformation. Governments and corporations are increasingly deploying misleading narratives – ranging from greenwashing to outright denial – to marginalize Indigenous peoples, facilitate land dispossession, and obscure ecological harm.  This is a systematic campaign that threatens both human rights and the environmental integrity of the region. As these falsehoods harden into public consensus, the standard model of environmental reporting is no longer sufficient.  In this clouded information environment, constructive journalism has a critical role to play. By scrutinizing official claims, exposing false…