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EDGE Group announced on 16 July 2026 an agreement to acquire a 100 percent stake in Akaer, a Brazilian aerospace and engineering company based in São José dos Campos. The deal remains subject to customary conditions precedent and regulatory approval, EDGE said in its announcement. The Abu Dhabi-based group was established in 2019 by Faisal Al Bannai and comprises more than 25 companies spanning military and civilian products across the defence, space, and cyber domains. Akaer becomes the latest addition to that portfolio and deepens EDGE’s engineering presence in Brazil’s aerospace cluster at São José dos Campos. Akaer’s aerospace engineering…

Baykar recently test-fired a Roketsan JET-230 aeroballistic missile or air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) from its Bayraktar Kızılelma unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). This would be another first for Baykar Group as, just late last year, it had also carried out the world’s first radar-guided air-to-air missile (AAM) launch from a Kızılelma UCAV. Baykar’s Kızılelma Nears Full Air-Combat Capability As Baykar progresses with integrating more air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions into the Kızılelma, it is reaching a point where other major air forces, such as the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), can start evaluating the UCAV as a full-fledged air combat system. For…

For the past several decades New Zealand has looked to China and Australia, and to a lesser extent the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union, as its major economic partners, while relying on Australia and other Western states as its major security partners. The July 11 visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to New Zealand on the heels of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in April suggests a new effort by New Zealand to expand and balance its economic and security relationships to resist growing militarization and politicization in the Pacific.  Modi’s one-day trip was the…

Mikhailo Federov was not the first or even the second defense minister fired by Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy—but he is the first whose dismissal has drawn protests around the country, wall-to-wall coverage in Ukrainian media, and condemnation by foreign allies who fear that sacking the politically popular Federov will undermine hard-won gains in the country’s fight for survival. In any case, the move reflects central questions about the war and how to win.On Wednesday, Zelenskyy fired Fedorov over his feud with Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the much-maligned commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The president framed his decision as an obvious one.Fedorov…

Peter Huessy, RealClearDefense Apart from doubling the Federal tax burden of every working American, the only offsetting budget cuts proposed have been defense cuts especially nuclear… Source link

John West, The Strategist (ASPI) Could another country replace China as the world’s economic growth leader, or could China reset for a new phase of economic leadership? Source link

A major controversy recently erupted in the Indian state of West Bengal, where a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government recently came to power after state assembly elections. The new government, whose base of support includes traditionalist Hindus, moved to drop eggs from the midday meal program in the state capital of Kolkata. The midday meal program is a scheme that provides free lunches to children in government schools, a policy that has helped reduce malnutrition in India, a country with a large number of poor and hungry children. Protein is considered vital for growing children and eggs are considered a…

Ecanow & Leopold-Cohen, RCD As America’s NATO allies

To Megan Fotheringham, a small, circular plaque represents what the United States lost when the Trump administration shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development last year.The plaque “was given to a USAID foreign service advisor in 1976 after the first recognized Ebola outbreak was contained in Zaire. For me, it represents 50 years of U.S. commitment to stop Ebola at its source before it reaches our shores,” Fotheringham, who served as the deputy director in USAID’s Office of Infectious Disease, told a crowd assembled before the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. “This plaque was on my desk during what became USAID’s last Ebola response effort. When I…

In a speech at the Stockholm Water Symposium in August 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.” Few expected that the warning would come true this early in the new century, and even fewer expected it to play out between two nuclear-armed rivals. In recent months, Pakistan has given unusual attention to the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), with a steady stream of statements from state officials and extensive media coverage — all signaling how much weight Islamabad now places on its water dispute with India. Last year,…