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US Army soldiers operate a HIMARS platform. Credit: US Army. The US Army has selected Georgia Tech Research Institute as weapons integrator for the CAML programme The mobile and optionally crewed launcher is currently in the prototyping stage; it will replace many existing Army missile launchers, such as the Typhon Mid Range Capability Selecting a university affiliated institute will overcome corporation bias The US Army has selected Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to serve as the weapons integrator for the prototype development of the Common Autonomous Multi Domain Launcher (CAML). Weapons integration will involve systems engineering, interface integration, modeling and…

The agreement was signed at the IMOD’s headquarters on 31 August 2026. Credit: Israel MOD. Israel and Greece have concluded an approximately €3bn ($3.5bn) government-to-government (G2G) agreement for a layered Greek air-defence network incorporating Israeli-made missile, radar and command-and-control systems.  The agreement for the programme, dubbed in Greece as Achilles Shield, was signed in Israel on 31 August 2026 by Israel Ministry of Defence (IMOD) director general Major General (Res.) Amir Baram and his Greek counterpart, Ioannis Bouras, signed the agreement on 31 August 2026 in Israel.   The programme covers a package of air-defence systems and related capabilities, including the…

Meeting the air-and-missile-defense needs of both today and tomorrow requires industry adapting to rapidly changing threats such as drone swarms and hypersonic missiles. Breaking Defense spoke with Rob Mitrevski of L3Harris on how industry is adjusting to meet new demand signals. Source link

The 55th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders’ Meeting opened on August 31 under a banner of unity, but it can’t escape the reality that outside powers are competing for influence in the Pacific. The question now facing the PIF is whether the forum’s consensus model, once a safeguard for small-state sovereignty, has become the very mechanism through which that influence reshapes regional outcomes. The official theme of this year’s PIF Leaders’ Meeting, held in Palau, is B.E.L.A.U., or Building Economies, Life, Action, Unity, an acronym that doubles as a tribute to the host nation’s indigenous name. It was meant to…

Families and experts in Nepal have told of the devastating flood that killed over 900 and the little-known cultural phenomenon that may have saved even more lives from being lost. According to those on the ground, while the waters surged through villages and left over 4,200 missing around the border between Nepal and China, some families had advanced warning of the imminent disaster. “In Nepal, people-to-people information sharing is quite good and also a unique phenomenon,” Dr Basanta Raj Adhikari, the director of the Centre for Disaster Studies at the Institute of Engineering at Tribhuvan University in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, told…

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Vietnam organizes its foreign relations into a three-tier hierarchy: Comprehensive Partnerships (CPs) sit at the base, Strategic Partnerships (SPs) in the middle, and Comprehensive Strategic Partnerships (CSPs) at the top. This sits alongside a category of special relationships with Cold War-era allies Laos, Cambodia, and Cuba. Hanoi’s “bamboo diplomacy,” flexible in form but firm at its roots, has expanded all three categories at a remarkable pace. As of early 2026, Vietnam has 15 CSPs, following the upgrade of relations with the European Union in January 2026, alongside 15 SPs and 17 CPs. This network now touches every continent and every…

The United States and Indonesia launched annual multilateral military exercises yesterday, which the two sides said aimed to improve interoperability and bolster deterrence in the region. Super Garuda Shield, which has been held annually since 2007, will take place in various locations including Bandung, Lampung, Kalimantan, and the Indonesian Army’s Baturaja Combat Training Center in South Sumatra before concluding in Jakarta on September 11. This year’s iteration will involve more than 4,743 personnel from 13 other countries including Japan, ​South Korea, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. A further eight nations will join as observers. While the total number of…

Myanmar’s military-appointed president, Min Aung Hlaing, will soon visit Vietnam, his fourth visit to an ASEAN member state since taking office in April, Myanmar state media reported today. According to a report in the Global New Light of Myanmar, the former general will travel to Vietnam “in the near future” at the invitation of To Lam, Vietnam’s president and the head of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In addition to meeting with Lam, he will also meet with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Tran Thanh Man, the head of the National Assembly, and “receive representatives from economic organizations.” “During…

Saab’s Gripen F. Credit: Saab AB. Swedish defence prime Saab successfully conducted the inaugural flight of the Gripen F, its new two-seat variant of the Gripen E fighter. The flight took place at Saab’s airfield in Linköping, Sweden, at 09:40 local time and lasted 40 minutes, according to company information. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Saab’s chief test pilot Jakob Högberg and lieutenant colonel Aviator Abdon de Rezende Vasconcelos from the Brazilian Air Force were onboard for the aircraft’s first airborne trial.…