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Ching Wah Chin, Strategy Page A Fascinating and Valuable X-ray of China, 1920s-1930s Source link

Home › Europe › European Defence News › Saab Wins SEK 8.7bn TKMS Order to Arm Germany’s MEKO A-200 Frigates European Defence News Saab won a SEK 8.7 billion order from TKMS to supply 9LV combat management, Sea Giraffe radars and superstructures for Germany’s four MEKO A-200 DEU frigates. Saab has won an order worth about SEK 8.7 billion from ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) to supply the combat systems for the German Navy’s new MEKO A-200 DEU frigates, announced on 16 July and following Berlin’s cancellation of the troubled F126 programme. The scope covers Saab’s 9LV combat management system, Sea…

Russia’s Romanov dynasty and William Ernest Henley’s poem “Invictus” were repeatedly mentioned during the first two weeks of the impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, sparking heated commentaries and online debates on history, violence, and accountability. After being impeached twice by the House of Representatives for betrayal of public trust, Duterte is now on trial in the Senate, which is constitutionally mandated to deliver a verdict and decide if the vice president should be allowed to stay in office or be removed and barred from holding another elected position. During the second day of her trial, Duterte appeared…

Trevithick, TWZ Issues tied to Zumwalt’s hugely powerful hybrid-electric power plant and other factors have set back its return to the fleet. Source link

Pakistan’s private sector has started to enter the country’s military drone effort, a space it has long been kept out of. Three developments across 2026 point to the shift. The Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP), fronted by a serving Directorate General Defence Purchase (DGDP) official, has openly called on private firms to help meet the armed forces’ drone requirements. In this vein, Woot-Tech recently tested a rocket-assisted take-off (RATO) motor that lets a loitering munition launch without a runway. Alsons Group, in turn, unveiled a family of indigenously built piston engines for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at this year’s…

Australia has updated its travel warning for Laos after the country’s government laid charges in connection with a methanol poisoning that killed two Australian teenagers in 2024. The Smartraveller notification for Laos, which is published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), was updated on Friday to classify the nation as a level two risk, urging visitors to “exercise a high degree of caution.” “We’ve reviewed our advice for Laos and have raised the overall travel advice level,” the notification stated. “We now advise exercise a high degree of caution due to crime, the risk of methanol poisoning,…

T. Novelly, Defense One The defense firm unveiled work on an autonomous tiltrotor just weeks after winning Air Force’s CCA contract. Source link

With demand for Patriot PAC-3 interceptors sharpened by Russian and Iranian ballistic missile attacks, Lockheed Martin unveiled plans to build a smaller and cheaper, if less capable, version of the exquisite interceptor.The Adapted Capability Effector, or ACE, missile would use the PAC-3’s launcher and command and control software, but a less expensive rocket motor, radar, and electronic brain, according to a company announcement and remarks by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control president Tim Cahil at the Farnborough International Airshow.The ACE lacks some of the features to counter the most advanced missiles, said Cahil, but is intended to be useful…

The Philippines has dismissed a strong criticism from an expert advisory group that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s recent engagement with Myanmar’s foreign minister undermined the bloc’s peace efforts, stating that it continues to adhere to the bloc’s Five-Point Consensus plan for managing the conflict. As this year’s chair of ASEAN, the Philippines hosted an “informal meeting” with Myanmar Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe in Bangkok on July 12, the first such engagement since the coup of 2021. Following the meeting, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), an independent group of international experts, said that ASEAN’s decision…

Steven Bancroft, Damali Brimm & Paul Kim, RealClearDefense Institutionalizing C-sUAS Training Source link