Washington: The ‘Red Flag’ drill involving advanced fighter and bomber aircraft such as F-22 Raptors, B-2 bombers, Eurofighter Typhoons, EA-18G Growlers was recently conducted. Fighter aircraft of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, ‘AUKUS’ countries, participated in this exercise. The United States clarified that this practice is not against any country. This drill […]
Washington: In the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there has been a huge addition in arms sales from the United States to NATO member countries. The leading magazine ‘Foreign Policy’ claimed that in 2022, the value of US defence deals with NATO countries would be more than double compared to 2021. The article in ‘Foreign […]
Tehran: ‘If Israel’s warplanes succeed in attacking Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant, Iran will rain missiles on Israel in the next seven minutes. This will raze Israel’s Tel Aviv city to the ground and completely destroy Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant,’ Iran has threatened. The threat was made in a video released by Younes Shadlou, a senior […]
Tokyo: In its national security policy released last week, Japan signalled a record increase in defence spending. Accordingly, in the Friday cabinet meeting, Japan approved a defence budget of $55 billion for 2023. Compared to 2022, Japan has increased its defence spending by a whopping 20 per cent in the next year. Japan said this […]
Washington: The Pentagon announced that bombers had been deployed to Guam island to signal that the United States stands with its friends and allies to respond to any potential provocation. Although not directly mentioned, local media said the US deployment was against the possible nuclear test by North Korea and to reassure Taiwan. Meanwhile, news […]
Tokyo: Japan’s defence ministry has proposed a more than $40 billion budget to counter the growing threats from China and North Korea. This includes provision for hypersonic missiles, standoff missiles, aircraft carriers, drones, and advanced fighter jets. The budget proposed by the Japanese Ministry of Defence is the highest to date. Apart from this, sources […]
Seoul: South Korea has announced the formation of a new strategic command centre to counter the nuclear and missile threats posed by North Korea. It is claimed that under this, a Three-Axis system will be activated in the next two years. Whereas the new strategic command centre will be equipped with F-35 Stealth fighter jets, […]
Athens: Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopulus warned that Turkey is testing the Greek patience with the demand for withdrawal of Greek deployments from the islands under Greek control and intrusions into the Greek airspace. A few hours ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded that Greece withdraw its deployments from the islands of Chios and […]
Moscow/ Washington: CIA chief has issued a warning against a nuclear threat from Russia due to the setback in the ongoing Russia- Ukraine conflict. In the last 24 hours, the Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev has announced deploying an additional nuclear arsenal in the Baltic region. Since then, CIA chief William Burns has warned of the […]
Tokyo/Washington: The Japanese parliament sanctioned the provision for $8.6 billion required for the US military deployment in Japan. As per the agreement signed between the two countries regarding this, Japan will also purchase an ‘Advanced Virtual Combat Training System’ for war exercises. As per the proposal sanctioned by the Japanese parliament, the new agreement will […]