An Israeli channel reported that the United Arab Emirates opposes Israeli efforts to use the military option against Iran, despite the normalisation agreement between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. Channel 12 added in a report, “The Arab country with which Israel developed a hot relationship after the Abraham Accords now says that military threats to it are not the way to deal […]
Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing ballistic missile technology with Chinese expertise and assistance. The revelation was made by the American CNN citing sources from the US intelligence services. A US satellite has detected ballistic missile production materials at at least one location. Saudi Arabia is the country that converted the dollar into the world‘s reserve currency when it agreed […]
A recent launch of the Russian Zircon hypersonic missile may make Russia’s diplomatic notes to the West “more convincing,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. “Well, let’s hope that notes become more convincing this way,” Peskov told Rossiya 1 when asked about the launch. The Kremlin spokesman also said that it was President […]
The HMS Westminster frigate of the UK Royal Navy is currently in the North Sea, ready to watch for Russian submarines, The Telegraph reports. The frigate, which was last upgraded in 2014 and is equipped with the Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile system, is being held at “very high readiness” in the Shetland Islands, the newspaper […]
More than 10,000 Russian soldiers are returning to their permanent bases after a month of exercises near Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported today, citing the Russian military. Interfax reported that the drills took place in several areas near Ukraine, including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, as well as in the southern Russian regions of Rostov and Kuban. Russia‘s deployment of tens […]
Mohammad Eslami insists Tehran will not further approach weapons-grade uranium should efforts to restore the 2015 accord collapse
As Malaysian Deputy Defence Minister Ikmal Hisham Abdul Aziz told the Malaysian parliament, his country is keenly interested in the 34 fighter jets being withdrawn by Kuwait, although he admitted that negotiations have not yet started. He said, however, that Kuwaiti F/A-18s are in good condition and still have hours of flight time. Should they be acquired, he said, Malaysia would keep them in service […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army awarded Northrop Grumman a $1.4 billion contract for both low-rate initial production and full-rate production of its future battle command system, according to a Dec. 23 Pentagon contract announcement. “This award represents the first significant competition for this major defense acquisition program since the 2009 award of the engineering and […]
The scenario included practice fuel spills, fires and injured passengers, with each authority demonstrating the correct procedures to respond to the emergencies
Everyone may be waiting for direct negotiations between Russia and the US to resolve the crisis between them, but NATO‘s plans to deploy forty thousand troops in Donbas are already in place. In the event of a deterioration of the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian border, NATO intends to immediately transfer an army of 40,000 troops to Ukrainian territory. At the moment, high […]
