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Ashley Roque, Breaking Defense If the deal goes through as outlined, the U.K. will be the second partner country to sign up for the new missile Source link

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence has confirmed that its JF-17 Thunders are in service, releasing on 6 July its first footage of the type, which showed two single-seat JF-17C Block 3 fighters, serials 24-501 and 24-502, flying with three external fuel tanks and no weapons. The aircraft were shown as part of a training cycle that also saw the fighters deploy to Türkiye for the multinational “Guardians of the Skies” exercise, the type’s first overseas activity under Azerbaijani control. Baku’s order traces to a February 2024 contract for 16 aircraft worth about $1.6 billion, later expanded to 40 JF-17s in a…

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Dorota Maczuga – co-founder of Polylocal, a Taiwan-EU B2B platform based in Kraków, Poland – is the 516th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”  Identify the factors for cooperation between Polish and Taiwanese drone companies. The main reason is the growing convergence of Poland’s and Taiwan’s national security strategies, driven largely by one factor: Ukraine. Ukraine’s role as a key driver in the development of drone-powered military technology is inseparable from Poland’s…

Max Grinstein, Washington Examiner The U.S. Army handed its soldiers new physical requirements… Source link

Ukraine’s Cascade Systems has credited its Lima electronic warfare (EW) system with diverting 58 of 59 Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles fired at the facilities it protects, i.e. a near-perfect result against one of Russia’s most feared weapons.[1][2] The developers have since raised that figure to more than 60, as of early July 2026.[3] What makes the claim notable, however, is not that Lima is another jammer, but how it works: it attacks the satellite navigation that Russian precision-guided munitions depend on, and it does so through a combination of jamming, spoofing, and a data-corruption technique that reaches beyond conventional…

In Japan they call it satori no sedai – the “enlightened generation” — a cohort of young adults emerging from the economic stagnation of the early 2000s who spurn traditional societal expectations around work, careers, family, and consumerism. A less literal translation would be the “resignation generation.” Other East Asian countries have the same phenomenon with a different name. In South Korea, as noted in a recent piece in The Diplomat, nearly half a million people now fall into the “just resting” category, an entire generation of mainly young people who are neither in nor seeking employment.  In China, poor…

WarZone The B-52 fleet is in need of an upcoming upgrade and has been in high demand, as well as suffering a tragic loss. Source link

On July 7, former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok declared his candidacy in the upcoming election to determine the next chair of the ruling Democratic Party. In doing so, Kim accused Jung Chung-rae, a former leader of the DP, of self-serving politics that kept the party from converting President Lee Jae-myung’s approval ratings into legislative wins.  The race will likely be intense. Jung is expected to formally announce his candidacy in the coming days; he resigned his post last month to run for the election. Son Yong-gil, a six-term lawmaker who returned to the National Assembly after winning a…

gC President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed his call for the United States to control Greenland, arguing the Arctic island’s strategic location makes it vital to U.S. national security as… Source link

On July 6, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jakarta for a two-day state visit. Indonesia was the first leg of Modi’s three-nation tour, which also includes official visits to Australia and New Zealand. This visit, which was Modi’s first standalone bilateral visit to Indonesia since both sides elevated their partnership to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2018, resulted in the two sides signing 20 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) or agreements, with substantive cooperation in areas including critical minerals, digital cooperation, maritime security, healthcare, agriculture, disaster management. India and Indonesia also agreed to continue work on the Sabang port project…