Pentagon's Advanced Hypersonic Weapon test abandoned after lift-off
A Pentagon hypersonic weapon concept, part of the Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) technology development programme, failed a key 25 August test. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) was...
View ArticleGuatemala to soon buy coastal patrol craft
Guatemala's proposed EUR14.2 million (USD18.8 million) programme to begin procurement of two high-speed coastal patrol craft is undergoing its final phase in Congress and is expected to be imminently...
View ArticleCape Ray completes neutralisation of Syrian chemical weapon precursors
Key Points Two Field Deployable Hydrolysis Systems neutralised more than 600 tonnes of DF and sulfur mustard in 42 days on board MV Cape Ray Effluent from the neutralisation process will be transported...
View ArticleSlow progress of government education reform increases likelihood of major...
EVENT Tens of thousands of students marched in the centre of the Chilean capital, Santiago, yesterday (21 August) to express their discontent at the lack of progress on the government's flagship...
View ArticleDelayed appointment of Venezuela's new ministerial cabinet highlights how...
EVENT Venezuelan vice-president Jorge Arreaza announced the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro's ministerial cabinet on 18 August as part of an internal restructuring process. Although Maduro...
View ArticleChina likely to remain Mongolia's main export market despite transshipment...
EVENT On 21 August, Chinese president Xi Jingping arrived in Mongolia and signed 11 agreements, covering economic co-operation, trade, infrastructure, and port access. Xi met with his Mongolian...
View ArticleArgentine attempt to move restructured debt to Buenos Aires kills market...
EVENT Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said on 19 August that her government would offer creditors of exchange bonds (restructured in 2005 and 2010) a debt swap involving a change of...
View ArticlePentagon: Coalition formed to resupply Kurdish peshmerga
Seven countries plan to join the United States and the Iraqi government in helping to resupply Kurdish forces that are battling Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, US Secretary of Defense Chuck...
View ArticleGreek Corsair crashes
A Hellenic Air Force (HAF) A-7E Corsair II attack aircraft crashed near Komotini on 26 August, the Greek Ministry of Defence has reported. The pilot ejected safely from the aircraft, and while the...
View ArticleChinese J-11BH 'aggressive' with USN P-8A, says DoD
The US Department of Defense (DoD) and Chinese Ministry of National Defense (MND) are engaged in a war of words over an incident on 19 August when a People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force (PLANAF)...
View ArticleTaiwan confirms Chinese aircraft crossed its ADIZ
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) has confirmed reports of a series of Chinese incursions into the island's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on 25 August. ROC Air Force Combat Command...
View ArticleSouth Korea launches fourth Incheon-class frigate
South Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding launched the Republic of Korea Navy's (RoKN's) fourth Incheon-class Future Frigate Experimental (FFX) guided-missile frigate at its facility in Changwon,...
View ArticleSOCOM buying more Carl Gustaf weapons under new contract
US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has signed a new framework contract with Saab to extend its procurement of the Carl Gustaf man-portable weapon system, according to a 27 August company statement....
View ArticleSingapore, Australia, US conduct first joint air drill in Northern Territory
Australia, Singapore, and the United States have begun a groundbreaking trilateral air combat exercise in northern Australia. Exercise 'Tri-Sling' is an offshoot of Exercise 'Commando Sling' between...
View ArticleIndia, Russia kick off first-ever joint air drills
The Indian and Russian air forces began exercises in Russia's southern Astrakhan region near the Caspian Sea on 25 August, their first drills together despite decades of close defence relations between...
View ArticleIndia to buy replacement C-130
The Indian Air Force (IAF) plans to acquire a Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 military transport aircraft to replace the one it lost in an accident in central India on 28 March. Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Arun...
View ArticleIndia opts for 'partial ban' on Finmeccanica
India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) imposed a "partial ban" on Finmeccanica on 26 August that permits the Italian defence conglomerate and its subsidiaries to pursue ongoing local contracts but prohibits...
View ArticleFAdeA delivers cargo doors for prototype KC-390
Argentina's state-owned aircraft manufacturer Fábrica Argentina de Aviões (FAdeA) announced on 24 August that it had delivered the first cargo door for the prototype Embraer KC-390 to Brazil's Embraer....
View ArticleEgypt to train PA Presidential Guard to perform border security mission
Egypt has agreed to train the Presidential Guard (PG) of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in border security duties, PA sources have confirmed. The agreement was reached at a meeting between PA President...
View ArticleDutch to withdraw Patriots from Turkey
The Netherlands is to withdraw its Raytheon Patriot surface-to-air (SAM) missile batteries from Turkey in January 2015, citing strain on personnel and a pending technical modification. The Dutch...
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