Military & Defense
Future USS Patrick Gallagher, last Flight IIA Arleigh Burke destroyer, reaches Norfolk
The future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127), the final Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, reached its home port of Naval…
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Europe
Sweden asks parliament to approve land, naval and air contributions to NATO deterrence in 2027
Sweden's government has submitted a bill to let it deploy land, naval and air units for NATO deterrence and defence…
Europe
EU approves new Lebanon support mission and extends Iraq advisory mission; Kallas says Aspides needs at least 10 ships
At the Foreign Affairs Council on 12 October, EU ministers approved a new support mission in Lebanon and extended the…
Africa
UN Security Council urges coordinated mediation on eastern DRC as ceasefire remains elusive
At the Security Council, UN envoy Huang Xia said talks in Washington and Doha are encouraging but that a genuine…
Europe
EU and Ukraine hold fifth Cyber Dialogue; CERT-EU and SSSCIP sign information-sharing arrangement
At the fifth EU-Ukraine Cyber Dialogue in Brussels, CERT-EU and Ukraine’s SSSCIP signed an arrangement to share incident information with…
Drones
French Army builds drone-contact units around FPV drones, with Fronde and Pendragon projects
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces says the 1st Marine Infantry Regiment has begun forming units that pair surveillance…
Africa
Israel’s defence ministry opens first national pavilion at Morocco’s Marrakech Airshow
The Israeli defence ministry says it opened its first national pavilion in Morocco, with eight Israeli companies at the Marrakech…
Drones
Baykar Akinci hits designated target in first firing of Aselsan’s Morfoz guidance kit
Baykar says the Akinci scored a direct hit on its first firing with Aselsan’s Morfoz guidance kit over the Gulf…
Europe
French Navy boards Russian “shadow fleet” tanker DF Peak in the Indian Ocean; Macron: “We will fight the ghost fleet everywhere”
The French Navy boarded the tanker DF Peak, considered part of Russia’s “shadow fleet”, more than 450 nautical miles south…
Defense Industry
Heaviside Tyr: US-Norwegian loitering munition with a Nammo anti-armour warhead for under $100,000
The US-Norwegian start-up Heaviside has unveiled Tyr, a loitering munition of about 15 pounds designed to destroy tanks, at a…
Asia-Pacific
STARK and Thales Australia team up to build Cascade loitering munitions for the Bushmaster
On October 7 STARK announced a partnership with Thales Australia to develop, produce and supply loitering munitions in Australia, with…
Balkans
EU enlargement: Montenegro has closed 21 of 33 chapters, Albania 4; what the Commission announced on the Western Balkans
The European Union provisionally closed three more accession negotiation chapters with Montenegro on Monday, October 12, and one with Albania…