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As explained in today's Spotlight (IO, 15/01/25), the promotion of Mohammed bin Tahnoon bin Mohammed Al Nahyan on 2 January [...]

Chinese president Xi Jinping has been repeating his watchword during recent meetings of the central committee of the Chinese Communist [...]

Director general of police, vice chief of staff of the Emirati armed forces, director of the court of the crown [...]

London - Gordon Rainey joins GMTLInvestigator Gordon Rainey joined boutique London corporate intelligence firm GMTL Advisory as head of operations [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron will fly to Beirut on Friday 17 January to meet his counterpart Joseph Aoun. Macron will [...]

When French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer once again spoke of the possibility of European forces [...]

Americas The US Army is seeking industry input on a spy aircraft that can launch unmanned aerial systems. The aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform will be based on an executive jet aircraft, such as a Bombardier G6500, and operate at medium to high altitudes. This announcement seems to attempt to expand the capabilities of the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program, which is also based on the Global 6500 and operate at medium to high altitudes. The US Air Force has enhanced its forward posture in the Indo-Pacific with the deployment of F-35A Lightning IIs from the Vermont Air National Guard’s 134th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS) to Kadena Air Base, Japan, on Jan. 13. The move comes as the service begins to retire its ageing fleet of F-15C/D Eagles in Japan, some of which have been in service for more than four decades. The US Air Force is retiring its fleet of F-15C/D Eagle aircraft, which have been operational for over 40 years, and the 18th Wing, formerly the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing, first received the F-15C on 29 Sept. 1979. The 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron was the first to be fully operational with the Eagle in the […]

Six A-10C jets of the U.S. Air National Guard have been stuck in Italy since November 2024, waiting for spare parts before the transoceanic flight that will take them back home. Six A-10C Thunderbolt II attack jets of the U.S. Air National Guard have been stuck at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, for two months, […]

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Canada acquired 11 MQ-9Bs and six ground control stations, with the first deliveries expected by 2028. While the aircraft will be based at 14 Wing Greenwood and 19 Wing Comox, the operations will be based in Ottawa. Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) has released images of the first two of its MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPAS […]

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Ukraine's security and diplomacy circles and its backers are all hands on deck as the United States prepares to inaugurate [...]

An expansion of unmanned operations is underway at the Royal Navy airfield, which could soon be used by General Atomics MQ-9 and Leonardo AW09 (Proteus) type aircraft. Located in the far south-west of the United Kingdom, and only around three miles from mainland Britain’s most southerly point, Predannack Airfield has operated since 1958 as a […]

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On the eve of Donald Trump's second presidential term, as part of the pending battle between Washington and Beijing, the US Congress wants to give the executive a new weapon in the form of a joint task force to combat [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is to issue its ruling on France's intelligence legislation on Thursday, 16 January. [...]

French open source intelligence (OSINT) specialist Elephantastic is to stop providing its services to the corporate intelligence sector, according to [...]

Thailand's defence minister and deputy prime minister, Phumtham Wechayachai, has discreetly informed his defence industry contacts in recent weeks that [...]

The Middle East Forensic Services practice at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) poached at least seven senior financial investigators from rival consultancies in [...]

Having recently suffered a setback in the UK Commercial Court, Kazakhstan-born businessman Yermek Alimov now faces another hurdle in his [...]

The internal launch, the first ever by a Turkish aircraft, demonstrated the ANKA III’s ‘ability to perform stealth strikes by maintaining a low Radar Cross Section (RCS) until the strike moment.’ Turkey’s ANKA III UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) released a TOLUN guided bomb from its internal weapons bays in a first-of-its-kind test, announced the […]

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The goal of the experimentation with FPV drones is to ‘accelerate cooperation between nano drones and Army Light Aviation aircraft,’ developing the employment doctrine for the Air-Launched Devices concept. The French Army (Armée de Terre) is moving towards integrating its armed helicopters with attack drones, aiming for “dronization” by 2040. Opex360, quoting French military publications, […]

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On Monday afternoon, MEPs discussed the security situation in Europe and beyond as well as defence and EU-NATO cooperation with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
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