Five Pakistan Army (PA) soldiers were killed when militants attacked three military posts along the country's border with Afghanistan on 5 March, according to a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.
The assault took place in Mohmand
Five Pakistani soldiers killed in militant attack
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Dozens killed in Kabul military hospital attack
At least 30 people were killed and dozens others wounded when attackers dressed as medical staff stormed a military hospital in central Kabul on 8 March, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense was quoted by local media as saying that same day.
The assault began around 0900 h local time when a suicide
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China to bolster size and strength of navy, says former political head of navy
China will increase the size of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and strengthen it further by expanding its personnel and improving its vessels, according to media reports.
This plan is to "safeguard the country's maritime rights and promote its maritime interests", Liu Xiaojiang,
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US nuclear review to provide options for Russia's INF Treaty compliance
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The US NPR will seek 'leverage points' with Russia
US officials have accused Russia of violating the 1987 INF Treaty
The Pentagon's ongoing Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will consider how to address Russia's reported violation of deal barring intermediate-range weapons, among wider US
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Seven-year anti-ship missile defence programme completed for RAN's Anzac-class frigates
Work has been completed on the AUD650 million (USD488 million) anti-ship missile defence (ASMD) upgrade of the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN's) eight Anzac-class frigates, contractor BAE Systems disclosed on 9 March.
HMAS Stuart , the final ship to complete the 12-month upgrade at the company's
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Polisario receives new armoured vehicles
Algeria has recently supplied new armoured vehicles to the Polisario Front, according to Moroccan press reports.
With extensive Algerian support, the Polisario Front resisted Morocco's 1976 annexation of most of the western Sahara until a ceasefire came into effect in September 1991.
The Moroccan
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EU look to make its battlegroups' deployment and cost more flexible
The European Union's (EU's) long-immobilised battlegroups (BGs) are again in the spotlight as national capitals and EU officials try once more to find new money for their deployment. They also want to make using the BGs more flexible via a 'modular' approach to their deployment for crisis management
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Project 949A submarines to get Kalibr missiles
The Russian Navy's Project 949A Antey ('Oscar II')-class nuclear-powered attack submarines will be re-armed with the Kalibr-PL missile system during an extensive overhaul at the Zvezda shipyard in the country's Far East, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said while visiting the facility on 7
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FAP receives its first Litening G4 targeting pods
The Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa: FAP) has taken delivery of an initial four AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening AT Block II airborne navigation and targeting pods upgraded to the Litening G4 standard by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Northrop Grumman, the Portuguese Ministry of
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Brazilian Army orders nine new RBS 70 air defence systems
The Brazilian Army has ordered additional RBS 70 man-portable very short-range air defence (VSHORAD) systems from Saab, the company announced on 6 March. Deliveries will take place throughout 2017 and 2018.
The contract, worth SEK105.046 million (USD11.640 million), was placed on 1 March by the
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Iran successfully tests radar-guided anti-ship ballistic missile
Iranian and US reports have corroborated a successful test of Iran's new Hormuz-2 radar-guided anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) in early March.
Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on 9 March that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) had carried out the test. "We fired the Hormuz-2
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ScanEagle facilitates Kenyan attack in Somalia
Kenya Army units serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) used a Boeing Insitu ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to facilitate a successful intelligence-driven attack on the Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen group in southern Somalia, according to a Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF)
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RDM qualifies rocket-boosted 155 mm V-LAP
Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) has completed the qualification of its extended-range 155 mm M2005 Velocity Enhanced Artillery Projectile (V-LAP) for an international client, the South African company announced on 9 March. Full-scale production is under way and the first production batch has been
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Australia to back development of supersonic aerial target system
Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) is to collaborate with local company Grollo Aerospace in the further development of the Evader autonomous supersonic aerial target system, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne announced on 10 March.
Pyne said the collaboration would
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US deploys Rangers, Marine artillery to Syria
The United States has deployed approximately 400 additional personnel to Syria as it struggles to de-escalate the conflict between NATO ally Turkey and the Syrian Kurds, who have proved to be Washington's most effective partner against the Islamic State in Syria.
The new deployments were first
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Russian MoD to receive three T-50 fifth-gen fighters among aircraft deliveries in 2017
The Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ: a subsidiary of Sukhoi) will deliver three T-50 (PAK FA) fifth-generation multirole fighters to Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 2017, Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov said on 9 March during a working trip to the Far East and Siberia.
"The
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Portugal envisages acquisition of KC-390 aircraft
The Portuguese Ministry of National Defence (MoND) currently considers the Embraer KC-390 multipurpose transport aircraft as an adequate solution to progressively replace the country's Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules aircraft, it told Jane's on 9 March.
No contract has yet been placed, but up to
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European Parliament says EDA should be a fully fledged agency funded by EU
The European Union (EU) should directly fund the European Defence Agency (EDA) and any arrangement for a permanent structured co-operation (PESCO) in defence by a core group of EU countries, say members of European Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Constitutional committees.
In a joint resolution on
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EU leaders confirm their desire for more defence co-operation
Meeting in Brussels on 9 March, EU leaders said that they want the decisions of their previous December 2016 summit about the EU's external security and defence "set in motion and reinforced".
"In the present international environment, Europe must do more … including by
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AFRICOM commander says China's base in Djibouti to be completed in coming months
The military base that China is building in Djibouti will be completed "later this summer", General Thomas Waldhauser, the commander of the US military's Africa Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on 9 March.
Noting the proximity of the Chinese base to the US military's Camp
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