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Space Force officials have tapped two startup companies to compete for future national security launch missions, expanding the service’s growing list of providers as the military’s demand for orbital capabilities skyrockets. California-based firms Impulse Space and Relativity Federal have both been added to the Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 contract, reserved for its more accessible and lower-risk missions. Both companies will receive a $5 million firm-fixed-price task order, indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract “to conduct an initial capabilities assessment and develop their approach to tailored mission assurance,” Space Systems Command officials said Wednesday in a news release. The…

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said she wants Australia to be an active, “architect” middle power – a stabilizer, mediator, and constructive partner in the Indo-Pacific.  For anyone concerned about peace in Australia’s neighborhood, that is good to hear, because a number of factors are conspiring to make future conflict more likely: the return of big power politics, the erosion of long-accepted international norms, marginalization of competent multilateral organizations (such as the United Nations) from peace processes, and the growing complexity of conflicts themselves.  Such times call for trusted middle powers to play a sensible good offices role. Australia, which is…

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On July 6, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) launched a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) into the Pacific Ocean. The launch has received plenty of coverage. What came the next day did not. A single social media post provided important context. The launched SLBM’s likely maker, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), put an image on Weibo to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The graphic visually linked the July 6 missile test to an incident of historical victimhood. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 7, 1937 began the Second Sino-Japanese War and World…

Eve Sampson, Army Times When mounted to a vehicle, the U.S. Army’s Volcano mine dispenser can blanket roughly 32 acres with up to 960 mines Source link

Pakistan’s three F-16A/B Block-15 squadrons are scheduled to retire by 2040, with no service life extension left to keep them flying past that point. That timeline sets up the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) largest fighter decision in a generation. The retirement date is effectively confirmed by the $686 million support and upgrade deal Pakistan signed with the United States in December 2025, aimed largely at keeping the F-16 fleet viable through the 2030s. The latest episode of Defence Uncut – Quwa’s Pakistani defence news and commentary podcast, hosted by Bilal Khan and Arslan Khan – works through the question that…

NASAMS air defence system. Credit: Kongsberg. Belgium has confirmed a defence acquisition valued at more than €3bn ($3.4bn) at the Nato Summit held in Ankara, Türkiye. In a post on X, Belgian Minister of Defence, Theo Francken, announced that the country will procure 10 NASAMS air defence systems developed by Kongsberg and 20 SkyRanger 30 systems produced by Rheinmetall. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more In addition, the package features 14 GM200 radars from Thales, as well as Iveco trucks. With this announcement,…

Last month, the United States changed the name of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to just Pacific Command, a reversal from its 2018 decision. Back in 2018, Washington was continuing its “pivot to Asia” and developing institutional embeddedness in the context of its “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” strategy. This effort was embodied by the Quad, which began on the foreign minister track in 2019 and finally elevated to leader level summits in 2021.  However, the priorities of the second Trump administration have shifted radically from those of Trump’s first administration, causing rising distrust among Indo-Pacific allies. Against that backdrop, the return to…

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In April 2026, Pakistan helped broker a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, placing Islamabad at the centre of a war it normally watches from a distance. The same Pakistan is also committed to defending Saudi Arabia, Tehran’s principal regional rival, under a mutual defence pact signed only months earlier. That tension is the starting point for the latest episode of Pulse Check, the subscriber podcast from Quwa. Host Bilal Khan is joined by Dr. Tughral Yamin – a retired Pakistan Army Brigadier General, former associate dean at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), and senior research…