Washington: A study group linked to the US government has warned ‘Although the United States is known to have the largest and the strongest navy, there is a major threat to the US Navy from Russia and China. The US navy will lose its might because of the anti-warship missiles of these two adversaries.’ The […]
Canberra/Beijing: China is making efforts to establish a military base in ‘Vanuatu’, a country in the Pacific Ocean, around 200 km from Australia. The Australian media has made these claims based on the information from the Australian intelligence agencies. The Australian and the US officials have already discussed the matter, it is said. The Australian […]
London: The dispute between Russia and the UK over the Skripal poisoning case has escalated. President Putin expressed his stand for the first time saying that Russia has nothing to do with the Skripal poisoning. Reactions from the UK say that this stand of the Russian President is not acceptable. The British media has begun […]
Beijing: China who has been trying to command authority over the disputed area of ‘South China Sea’ with artificial islands and military forces, also started making moves to dominate the ‘Asia-Pacific’ and ‘Indian Ocean’ region. China has developed the ‘Blue Water Navy’, for keeping control over the oceanic area all over the world and has […]
Tokyo: It has been observed that China has started aggressive military movements in the South China Sea as well as the Pacific region since the last few months. Japan has started strong preparations in response to this aggressiveness and deployed the ‘Fifth Generation Fighters’, ‘F-35’ on its Misawa airbase. The US army and fighter jets […]
Moscow: Russia has declared of its ‘Trefoil’ military base in the Arctic region to have become operational and has invited the foreign media for a visit. Russia’s invitation to foreign media is claimed to be an exhibit of its military power. Only in the last month, Russia had organised an international conference for the development […]
Colombo : The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sunil Lanba is on a visit to Sri Lanka. Admiral Lanba attended the ‘Galle Dialogue’, an annual conference organized between the Indian and Sri Lankan Navies. The Naval Chief is to meet and hold talks with the Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena, the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe and […]
Moscow / Mariupol: Only 24 hours after the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Before visiting Mariupol, Putin is said to have also visited the Crimea region. Analysts claim that the Russian President sent a message to Western […]
Moscow/Kyiv: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reported that more than 650 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in attacks by Chechen units, which are part of the Russian army, in southern and central Ukraine. More than 10,000 soldiers from Chechnya province have taken part in the Russian campaign in Ukraine. They are deployed in southern Ukraine, including the […]
Riyadh: Tensions have been rising in the Persian Gulf due to the shaky stance of the US on the nuclear deal with Iran and the augmenting influence of Iran-aligned groups in Arab-Gulf countries. Considering this threat from Iran, Saudi Arabia has started modernising its Navy. As part of this, Saudi Arabia has purchased destroyers equipped […]