US marines have touched down in the Top End and will train with Australian troops as tensions in the Pacific continue to heighten. Up to 2500 marines will conduct combined exercises over the next seven […]
The US Marine Corps has awarded an $89.5 million contract to defense manufacturer BAE Systems to supply 14 advanced amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs). The deal indicates that the ACVs must feature state-of-the-art sensors and vetronics, the “digital […]
A U.S. Special Operations Command aircraft has been operating from a strip of highway in Latvia, for the first time. On the night of May 10-11, C-146A Wolfhound special operations transport belonging to the U.S. […]
Prioritizing affordability and utilizing advanced manufacturing techniques, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), will build nine additional CH-53K™ aircraft at a lower unit price than previous lot buys, resulting in significant savings for the […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in collaboration with Lockheed Martin are developing the OpFires mobile medium-range hypersonic missile assembly to fit on the back of an U.S. Army’s Palletized Load System (PLS) 5-axle […]
China called on the United States to withdraw troops from Taiwan on Friday in response to reports that a small presence of American troops have been training forces there for at least a year. Chinese […]
Taiwan’s Naval Command had confirmed that a team from the Marine Raiders Regiment – the U.S. Marine Corps’ special operations forces – arrived in the country on November 9 to train the Taiwanese Marines, the […]
Small presence of Americans secretly training local forces marks concern over China’s years long military buildup and recent moves, learned GDC citing Wall Street Journal. About two dozen members of U.S. special-operations and support troops […]
After days of warnings about a possible Islamic State terror attack in the Afghan capital, officials say at least 60 people have been killed in suicide bombings outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), reports […]
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