Tag Archives: Arms

As US officials briefed the flagship New York Times on efforts to stop Iran sending drones to Russia, the Jerusalem Post played down “a new era of drone wars.” A 2,000-word New York Times story published December 28 was based on un-named United States officials proclaiming Iran and Russia to …

As the Oct. 18, 2020, expiration date of the UN arms embargo against Iran loomed, there was substantial speculation that Tehran would seek to modernize its aged military arsenal by importing Russian hardware. A Pentagon report released the year before, for example, reasonably speculated that Iran might seek Russian Su-30 …

  The proliferation of drones in the Ukraine war is fuelling a fresh arms race between manufacturers of unmanned aerial systems and communications engineers developing radio wave scramblers and GPS jammers.   Exhibitors at the Paris Eurosatory military expo told the Associated Press on Tuesday that pilots and their units …

Attacking enemy cruise missiles, fighter jets, helicopters and longer-range high altitude ballistic missiles all present substantial threats to Navy surface ships, especially when multiple attacks arrive simultaneously. By and large, defending against incoming ballistic missiles and air and cruise missiles requires separate defensive systems … until now. A new family …

The US State Department has cleared the potential sale of four “weapons-ready” aerial drones to Taiwan. Key points: The $US600 million ($833 million) deal would be the first such sale since the Trump administration loosened US policy on the export of sophisticated and closely guarded drone technology. The move is …

The Ottawa government says it is suspending its arms exports to Turkey, a fellow member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), over the alleged “improper” use of Canadian weapons in the ongoing clashes between Baku and Yerevan over Nagorno-Karabakh region. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced on Monday that …

According to a report by Reuters, the US is seeking to reinterpret the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a 1987 arms control agreement, so as to permit the sale of US drones to more countries where makers such as Israel and China, which are not governed by the treaty, dominate …