Defence`s Feeds

After announcing last August that it was creating a defence attaché post for its embassy in Manila (IO, 16/08/23), where

The highly secretive 581st analysis and forecast centre of the GRU, the Belarusian military intelligence agency, has submitted its report

The preparations for President Xi Jinping's visit to Paris in early May (IO, 23/04/24 and 10/04/24) have given an idea

Despite the current Russian push on the frontline, Kyiv is counting on a few pieces of good news with regard

Since the start of the year, the DCI Group, a Washington, DC, PR and lobbying firm, has been busy trying

Republic of Korea Air Force Phantoms made their last public appearance at the 2024 Suwon Space Challenge event. On April 27, 2024, the Republic of Korea Air Force’s (ROKAF) F-4E made their last public appearance. [...]

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With the acquisition of their first anti-radiation weapon, both countries are improving their capability to perform Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defense missions. The U.S. State Department has approved the possible Foreign Military Sale to the [...]

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The low-visibility checkerboard (the Polish equivalent of a roundel) will replace the traditional white-red one on the Polish Air Force F-35 jets. According to a news piece published by Interia.pl on Apr. 28, 2024, Polish [...]

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While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a high-profile visit to Shanghai and Beijing last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) remained without a chief analyst for China, as it has done for weeks. According

Intelligence Online has learned that a new US intelligence satellite has just been placed in exactly the same geosynchronous orbit

The German federal public prosecutor's office announced on 22 April the arrest and indictment of three Germans suspected of involvement

Intelligence Online has learned that President Emmanuel Macron's Americas, Asia and Oceania adviser Walid Fouque will be stepping down from

The Russian military intelligence service GU (formerly GRU) is actively seeking to recruit sources and agents of influence on French

France - Tracfin says no to debt-ridden chauffeur with a penchant for prostitutesOn 1 March, the Paris administrative court upheld

The government in Yerevan, which has already begun talks with Washington and Paris as part of a major swing towards

The MXU-1072/A 5th generation travel pod is carried inside the F-35A Lightning II’s weapons bays. A travel pod is usually an external fuel tank or canister, that has been adapted with an external door and [...]

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UK’s Secretary of Defence unveiled that Italy, along with France and the UK, has supplied Storm Shadow/SCALP EG cruise missiles to Kyiv, and urged Germany to provide Taurus missiles. This is the first time Italy [...]

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In an engagement reminiscent of WWII dogfights, a Ukrainian training aircraft reportedly shot down a Russian drone. On Apr. 27, 2024, a Ukrainian Yak-52 training aircraft, shot down a Russian Orlan-10 drone over Odessa, according [...]

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The drone strafed targets on the ground during a live fire event earlier this month. General Atomics announced the successful testing of the Mojave Unmanned Aircraft System, equipped with M134 7.62 miniguns, which destroyed static [...]

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The new commercial derivative aircraft will replace the 1970s’ E-4B Nightwatch in the National Emergency Airborne Command Post role. Sierra Nevada Corporation has been awarded a contract, worth more than USD 13 billion, for the [...]

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