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The UK is attempting to develop a crewed-uncrewed combat aircraft network. Credit: UK MoD/Crown copyright UK reveals “Storm Fighter” uncrewed wingman concept for RAF fighters Echoes Project Mosquito, launched 2021 and cancelled 2022 Doubts it will reach service given UK history as alternatives like MQ-28 advance The UK has unveiled its latest uncrewed wingman for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) fighter fleet, dubbed Storm Fighter, during the speech by a UK Government minister at the Global Air and Space Chiefs’ Conference. So-called Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), platforms like the conceptual, and uncrewed, Storm Fighter operate alongside crewed fixed-wing combat aircraft…

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Myanmar’s military and some of its opponents are ready to engage in dialogue, recognizing that there is no military solution to the country’s current conflict, Thailand’s foreign minister said yesterday. Sihasak Phuangketkaew’s comments came after he and Philippine Foreign Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro, ASEAN’s current special envoy on Myanmar, held talks with military negotiators and a number of armed rebel groups in Thailand on Monday. “We hope that eventually we could ​find some common ground where we can begin some ​talks,” Sihasak ⁠said yesterday, according to Reuters. “At the moment it is going to be probably talks for talks: How…

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A court in Singapore has ordered Bloomberg News and one of its reporters to pay S$460,000 (around $357,000) in damages after an article it published on the city-state’s luxury real estate market was found to have defamed two ministers. In a judgment released on Tuesday, Singapore’s High Court ordered Bloomberg and reporter Low De Wei to jointly pay S$230,000 to Minister of Manpower Tan See Leng and K. Shanmugam, the coordinating minister for national security and the minister for home affairs. This comprised S$170,000 in general damages and S$60,000 in aggravated damages. In the judgment, High Court Judge Audrey Lim…

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Until the celebration of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha in late May, Sadek, a Rohingya activist and founder of Rohingya Rights Response (RRR), was living in relative peace in Malaysia. There had been a steady amount of hostile social media posts about the Rohingya community living in the country since his arrival several years before, but the impact was manageable. “For the first time in a long time, Malaysia felt like a place where I could breathe,” he said in a recent interview. “I made genuine friends, felt accepted by many people, and slowly started rebuilding a life after everything…

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Mykhailo Fedorov is among a young generation of Ukrainian politicians to have emerged since 2022. Credit: Dmytro Larin via Shutterstock.com Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed the country’s Minister of Defence, Mykhailo Fedorov, late on 15 July in an unexpected move as the war against Russia continues in a bloody stalemate. Taking to social media, Fedorov said it had been a “great honour to serve the Ukrainian people”, listing a string of successes that he and his team achieved during a brief six-month tenure. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across…

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The Pakistan Navy (PN) will design an original submarine once its Hangor-class (S26) boats are inducted, the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral Naveed Ashraf, confirmed in a recent interview with Asian Defence Journal. The remark is brief, but for anyone who has followed Quwa over the past few years, it settles a question rather than opening one. The PN set a vision some years ago to become a “submarine-building navy,” and the CNS has now placed an original design at the end of that road. Like the Jinnah-class frigate and the Sea Sultan long-range maritime patrol aircraft (LRMPA), the…

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