Qatar, Kuwait & UAE to follow India's lead over purchase of Rafale
Qatar, Kuwait & UAE are interested in buying French Rafale fighter jets but are waiting to see whether India will make a purchase first, France's defence minister said yesterday. "They are in effect interested but they won't know for sure until the first one jumps in," said the minister, Gerard Longuet. He said he hoped that the UAE, which is talks with France to buy 60 Rafales, would make a decision "within a time frame that will allow its two neighbours, which hope to be interoperable with the Emirates, to …
Iran’s Missile Strikes Exposed Major Weaknesses in U.S. Middle East Bases
Satellite evidence reveals hidden vulnerabilities inside America’s Gulf defense network. Satellite imagery and battlefield assessments reveal how Iranian missile and drone attacks damaged critical U.S. military infrastructure across the Middle East, exposing vulnerabilities in regional defense architecture and reshaping future American force posture. The scale of damage inflicted by Iranian missile and drone attacks on U.S. military installations across the Middle East appears to have been significantly larger than publicly acknowledged during…
How the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Is Reshaping Global Naval Security
Global navies are entering a new era of maritime confrontation. The Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping global naval security, maritime strategy, oil chokepoint defense, and multinational military deployments across the Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz has once again become the center of global strategic anxiety, but the current crisis is fundamentally different from previous Gulf confrontations. What was once viewed primarily as an energy security issue has rapidly evolved into a broader test of maritime power projection, naval deterrence, allian…
ISIS’s Oil Revenue Is Falling, Administration Says
The Obama administration believes it has sharply cut back the oil revenues that have made the Islamic State the best funded terrorist organization in history, according to senior US officials. The US has been combining military strikes that target energy infrastructure controlled by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with heightened tracking of smuggling routes used to move oil through Turkey and Kurdistan, according to these officials. In October, the US Treasury Department estimated that Islamic State , also known as ISIS or ISIL, w…
Patriot missile sales to Netherlands cleared by US State Department
WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Department of State cleared a possible foreign military sale of 96 Raytheon-made Patriot surface-to-air missiles to the Netherlands in a deal estimated to be worth $1.2 billion. The Netherlands requested to buy the Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical, or GEM-T, missiles, which the State Department said support its goal of improving its defenses and increase its interoperability with the U.S. and fellow NATO forces. “The proposed sale will improve the Netherlands’ capability to meet current and future threa…
The great IRAQ pullout : Navy, IAF and Air India on stand-by to evacuate Indian nationals
India is preparing the ground for the evacuation of its nationals from Iraq, with the Navy, Air Force and Air India on standby to execute the operation. The foreign ministry said on Monday that it would facilitate the departure of over 600 Indians from the war-torn country this week. INS Mysore, the Navy's Delhi-class destroyer, is in the Persian Gulf. Sources said it had crossed Kuwait and was stationed in the region and awaiting instructions. The warship has been sent to the region as part of a contingency plan and it can mov…
2014 Tank Biathlon World Championship
Indian tank crew on Wednesday secured a respectable third spot in the second stage of the 2014 Tank Biathlon World Championship, a mechanised military sport invented in Russia. Being held at a firing range in Albino, outside Moscow, teams from 12 countries, including from Angola, Armenia, Belarus, Venezuela, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Kuwait, Mongolia, Russia and Serbia, are participating in the competition. Delegations from more than 20 countries are taking part as observers. Teams have to race through up to 20km obstacle…
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