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The security talks between Taiwan and Japan, held virtually on 27 August and the first of their kind, signaled Taiwan's

The co-founder of the Taliban and de facto foreign minister Abdul Ghani Baradar made his triumphant return to Kabul on

The French defence ministry published a tender on 5 August that is related to the demining of land on the

Rangers SRL, a company set up by former Carabinieri Gianni Spinelli and now owned by Italian security concern Gruppo Battistolli, signed a

Two Six Technologies' announcement on 24 August that it had bought fellow US company Trusted Concepts marked the return of American

Next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, with three paying crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council will be the first commercial, human-tended research mission for Virgin [...]

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Tests with the GBU-31 pave the way for the use of Joint Direct Attack Munitions against “moving and static maritime targets”. Three F-15E Strike Eagles from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron carried out tests [...]

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Raytheon Missiles & Defense has demonstrated a swarming drone defeat capability using a ‘non-kinetic' Coyote Block 3 variant reusable air vehicle.

The Indonesian Air Force's (TNI-AU's) fleet of CH-4B medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has formally received military airworthiness...

In the context of the exponential growth of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the President of the European Parliament has announced a number of measures to contain the spread of epidemic and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.

The current precautionary measures adopted by the European Parliament to contain the spread of COVID-19 do not affect work on legislative priorities. Core activities are reduced, but maintained to ensure that the institution's legislative, budgetary, scrutiny functions are maintained.

The meetings will be with remote participation for Members (being able to view and listen to proceedings, ask for the floor and intervene in the meeting). Other participants are invited to follow the meeting through webstreaming.

Following these decisions, the next meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) will take place on 9 September 2021 (online).
The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.

SEDE meetings' calendar 2021
EP calendar 2021
Press release: Sahel: Security situation from the African perspective - 12 April 2021
Press release: MEPs quizzed the head of the IAEA about nuclear non-proliferation - 16 March 2021
Press release: Exchange of views with the NATO Secretary General - 15 March 2021
Press release: Instability in the Central African Republic - 24 February 2021
Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

The first two Hawk Mk167s with the Qatar Emiri Air Force markings were delivered to RAF Leeming to join the joint Hawk training squadron. The first two BAE Systems Hawk Mk167 jet trainers for the [...]

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Iraq is in the process of acquiring various military systems from several countries, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Turkey, to enhance its capabilities...

The US Navy (USN) Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) on 26 August announced that it had conducted a ground test of the second-stage solid rocket motor (SRM) booster in...

A bipartisan group of 13 US House members is urging the US Department of Defense (DoD) to support Lockheed Martin's proposed acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne.

The US Air Force (USAF) used Boeing C-17A Globemaster III and Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules platforms instead of its Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy airlifter for its...

Israeli cyberintelligence firm Rayzone is scheduled to give several presentations at ISS World Europe in Prague on 7-9 December including one on its cybersecurity branch Rayzsecurity. The division is positioning itself on the cyber capacities building for States, offering to

Since their indictment in late June, Nexa Technologies executives Stéphane Salies and Olivier Bohbot used the French summer months to

Africa Intelligence understands that the first Franco-Russian hydrogen forum is due to take place on 2 December, on the same

Austria is launching a joint artificial intelligence research facility with China, even as partnerships between Chinese and Western research institutions

After putting its books back in order, Nick Alcock and Michael Bevan, the co-directors of British intelligence consultancy Good Governance Group