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France - Rivalry between the DGSE and the Special Forces played out on TVThe second season of the TV show [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron is due to visit Jakarta from 27 to 29 May, hoping to sign several major defence [...]

A Russian woman's attempt to take documents from a US-based wealth management company is more than just your typical asset [...]

The diplomatic war between France and Algeria accelerated again on 11 May, with the announcement by Algiers of the "immediate" [...]

During their meeting in Riyadh on 14 May, the teams of US President Donald Trump and Syria's transitional leader Ahmed al-Sharaa tried their best to make the meeting a diplomatic success. In exchange for lifting US economic sanctions, the White [...]

Intelligence has dominated his career. Fieldwork and informers, counter-espionage and a France that has been the target of international terrorism. [...]

Anne-Marie Lim and Thomas Lim, the widow and son of Lim Kimya, a Franco-Cambodian politician and former French civil servant [...]

Tehran's dashed hopes of being able to quickly improve its space programme (IO, 01/07/24) is adding pressure to the entire [...]

The RAF said that FPV drones have proven their ‘effectiveness in recent conflicts’, reflecting the service’s vision of a future land war in Europe. In an exercise marking the increasing tactical importance of First-Person View (FPV) drones, the Royal Air Force (RAF) announced on May 10, 2025 the completion of a trial deployment of one […]

The post RAF Flies FPV Quadcopter Drone from CH-47 Chinook in ‘Hornet’s Nest’ Trial appeared first on The Aviationist.

A UK Government minister has confirmed that construction of the initial two new Chinook airframes has begun at Boeing’s Philadelphia facility. Answering a written question submitted to the Secretary of State for Defence regarding the status of the outstanding Chinook order, department Minister of State Maria Eagle confirmed for the first time that Boeing has […]

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The 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron flew the first mission training sortie for the EA-37B on May 2, 2025, says the service, referring to the Compass Call mission. An EA-37B Compass Call aircraft, the U.S. Air Force’s newest dedicated standoff airborne electronic attack aircraft, assigned to the 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron (ECS), flew its first mission […]

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The Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) organises a joint public hearing on 'Military Mobility' on Wednesday, 14 May 2025 from 14.30 to 17.00hrs in Brussels (room ANTALL 4Q2), to discuss with experts the state of play and future prospects of military mobility in the EU in view of the upcoming joint non-legislative report.
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     Brigadier Katrien D’HERT (EU Military Staff)
     Lieutenant General André BODEMANN (Bundeswehr Germany)
     Lieutenant Colonel Pasi SEPPÄLÄ (Ministry of Defence Finland)
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On 14 and 15 May, SEDE will hold its next meeting. SEDE Members will notably discuss with the EEAS and Commission representatives, the implementation of the EU Action Plan on cable security and actions taken to increase EU security and resilience against threats posed to the Union's critical infrastructure. There will also be an item on the implementation of the European Defence Industrial Strategy and on how the latest developments -
like the White Paper on Strengthening European Defence, the ReArm Europe plan/Readiness 2030 and the forthcoming "Defence Simplification Omnibus" - relate to the benchmarks as set out in the Strategy. On 14 May, a joint hearing of the SEDE and TRAN Committees is also organised on 'Military mobility' to discuss with experts the state of play and future prospects of military mobility in the EU in view of the upcoming joint non-legislative report.

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The Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) organises a joint public hearing on 'Military Mobility' on Wednesday, 14 May 2025 from 14.30 to 17.00hrs in Brussels (room ANTALL 4Q2), with external experts.
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Americas Northrop Grumman  won a $60.2 million modification, which is to procure the non-recurring engineering, material, tooling, and labor required to complete the Integrated Functional Capability 4 change requests and engineering change proposals in support of the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System air vehicle B11 for the Navy. Work is expected to be completed February 2029. Fiscal 2025 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $60,249,668 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. The US Army is rethinking how it uses tanks on the battlefield, adapting to the growing threat posed by loitering munitions and low-cost drones in modern warfare. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, speaking on the War on the Rocks podcast, said the surge of inexpensive drones capable of striking tanks’ most vulnerable points demands a major change in how armored units are deployed. Pointing to the M1 Abrams as an example, Driscoll explained that tanks can no longer rely on traditional frontal assault tactics and must instead operate from more protected, defended positions. Middle East & Africa Saudi Arabia has produced the first locally made parts […]

President Trump described the F-55 as a substantial upgrade over the F-35, together with the ongoing upgrades to F-35 and F-22. U.S. President Donald Trump is currently on a tour in the Middle East, and on May. 15, 2025, made the second stop of the tour in Qatar. Trump began the day at a breakfast […]

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Americas Airbus and Shield AI have signed an agreement to integrate autonomous pilot technology into the MQ-72C Logistics Connector unmanned aerial system. The teaming includes compatibility trials of Shield AI’s flagship artificial intelligence software “Hivemind” with Airbus’ Helionix advanced avionics suite to operate the MQ-72C. The evaluation will focus on levels of autonomy to deploy the aircraft with minimal human intervention, with the tests to include complex unmanned operations in contested logistics settings. The Golden Dome missile-defense vision is turning up the heat on a long-running fight between the Pentagon and the telecommunications industry for control of certain radio frequencies. “That area of the spectrum is golden, and we need to protect it to maintain national security. And I use the word golden specifically, because the only way we can achieve Golden Dome” is by using frequencies around 3 gigahertz, Katie Arrington, who is performing the duties of the Pentagon chief information officer, told lawmakers Thursday at a hearing of the House Armed Services’ panel on cyber, information technologies, and innovation. “It is critical for national security.” Europe The UK Ministry of Defense has revealed it will send five additional Raven air defense systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The project, which will […]

The consequences of the gradual dismantling of US soft power capabilities are causing growing concern in Washington D.C., including beyond the Democratic opposition. Rick Crawford, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, recently voiced alarm at the escalation of [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron and the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov met for dinner at the Elysée Palace on 5 May [...]