Defence`s Feeds

With Lebanon's energy crisis worsening, the country is urgently looking to put into effect an oil deal with Iraq thrashed out in Baghdad on 24 July (IO, 05/07/21). The oil companies interested in carrying out the one-million-tonne heavy fuel oil

Three Eyes Spirit, which supplies a big data analysis platform to the Nanjing police, has launched its first funding round.

Moldova's new government, led by prime minister Natalia Gavrilita, took office on 6 August (IO, 18/05/21) in an event that

On top of classified talks with Iran's intelligence ministry VAJA (IO, 21/07/21), Egypt's intelligence agency the Mukhabarat Al Amma, has now engaged

Baghdad's ruling elite has been in a state of high excitement since prime minister Moustafa Al Kazemi announced on 9

A case brought by the consulting firm Farrer & Co against Nurgul Yertayeva has shed light on the people surrounding

With Lebanon's energy crisis worsening, the country is urgently looking to put into effect an oil deal with Iraq thrashed out in Baghdad on 24 July (IO, 05/07/21). The oil companies interested in carrying out the one-million-tonne heavy fuel oil

Three Eyes Spirit, which supplies a big data analysis platform to the Nanjing police, has launched its first funding round.

Moldova's new government, led by prime minister Natalia Gavrilita, took office on 6 August (IO, 18/05/21) in an event that

On top of classified talks with Iran's intelligence ministry VAJA (IO, 21/07/21), Egypt's intelligence agency the Mukhabarat Al Amma, has now engaged

Baghdad's ruling elite has been in a state of high excitement since prime minister Mustafa al-Kazemi announced on 9 August

A case brought by the consulting firm Farrer & Co against Nurgul Yertayeva has shed light on the people surrounding

Americas

Elbit Systems and L3 Technologies will compete for each order of the $92 million firm-fixed-price contract for the Aviator’s Night Vision Imaging System III. The Aviator’s Night Vision Imaging System III has Independent eye span adjustment and 25-mm relief eye piece accommodate eyeglasses and unique user requirements. Low-profile battery pack improves head mobility. Objective lens coatings filter glare from cockpit instrument lighting. Work is estimated to be completed by August 22, 2025.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a request for information (RFI) on August 18 to industry seeking technologies that would support its development of new ground-effect vehicles (GEVs). Also called wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle, ground-effect craft, wingship, flarecraft or ekranoplan, it can move over the surface by gaining support from the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth or water.

Middle East & Africa

A US Air Force F-15E fighter shot down an Iranian unmanned air vehicle over Syria on August 21. The drone was deemed a threat to Mission Support Site Green Village, which has hundreds of American troops stationed there.

Europe

A US Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 conducted a first-of-its-kind operation which saw F-35B aircraft launched from British HMS Queen Elizabeth land on the amphibious assault ship USS America to load ordnance, refuel, and strike follow-on objectives on August 20th, 2021.

Asia-Pacific

The Indian Navy (IN) and the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) have once again demonstrated their ability to interoperate in the South China Sea with a series of naval drills near the disputed waters. The drills took place on 18 August, and it involved the IN’s Rajput-(Kashin II) class (Project 61ME) guided-missile destroyer INS Ranvijay , and the Kora (Project 25A)-class corvette, INS Kora.

The Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN) has commissioned its first locally built submarine capable of firing submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), Jane’s reports. The 3,000-ton-class submarine, named Dosan An Chang-ho, is the first of three 3,000-ton-class Changbogo-III Batch-I submarines that South Korea plans to build by 2023.

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The Taliban has warned that it will not accept any extension to the August 31 withdrawal for international forces after the United States and other Western countries said the chaotic evacuation of thousands of people seeking to flee Afghanistan may require keeping troops on the ground past the deadline.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh stressed that the history has shown that there is no military solution to Afghanistan crisis and all groups and parties must resolve the issues through negotiation and dialogue.

Marines and Sailors of 2nd Marine Division aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) arrived in U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations off the coast of Haiti in support of Joint Task Force-Haiti, Aug. 21.

Border officials for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have discussed the latest developments along the disputed segments of the frontier between the two Central Asian nations amid a fresh rise in tensions over the weekend.

President Maia Sandu says Moldova wants its relations with Russia to be based on pragmatism and will work to prevent a destabilization of the situation with regard to the frozen conflict between Chisinau and its Moscow-backed breakaway region, Transdniester.

A court in Yerevan has granted an appeal by Armenian prosecutors seeking the rearrest of a prominent surgeon charged with pressuring his subordinates to go vote in the June 20 parliamentary elections in which he ran on the ticket of an opposition alliance.

The United States is designating the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) Chief of Staff General Filipos Woldeyohannes (Filipos) for his connection with serious human rights abuse committed during the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia.