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Archive for Category: "Defense & Security News"

German Bid To Buy P-3Cs Faces Challenges

DefenseNews, An ongoing defense procurement review here has German Navy officials worried that their Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) solution could be lost to budget cuts. The Navy is pursuing procurement of 10 P-3C Orion aircraft from the Netherlands, which next year is ending its MPA mission due to a major defense restructuring. At the same [...]

Pak, Turkey discuss defence ties, other matters

NNI, RAWALPINDI, : Matters related to Pakistan Turkey defence relations and other related issues of mutual concern were discussed in the opening session of the second meeting of the High Level Military Dialogue Group which started in Rawalpindi Wednesday. General Liker Basbug, Deputy Chief of the Turkish general Staff and Lt Gen (Retd) Hamid Nawaz [...]

European defence belongs to NATO

The National Interest , America's ambassador to NATO, Nicholas Burns, told other NATO members this week that the United States was increasingly alarmed about the European Union's plans to set up a defence organization separate from NATO. He was given a series of reassurances that the United States was simply being alarmist. If Washington is [...]

US to deploy laser in Iraq

Herald and Weekly Times, THE Pentagon is planning to deploy an experimental laser in Iraq to create a “virtual microphone” capable of detecting and homing in on sniper fire, a senior defence official said today. Development of that and other exotic technologies is being accelerated by a cutting edge Pentagon research agency to be tried [...]

Photos: Joint naval operation held off east coast

Chinadaily, Chinese and Pakistani warships carried out a joint rescue exercise in the East China Sea yesterday off the coast of the biggest city in China. Please click here for pictures It was the first time Chinese naval forces had conducted joint exercises with its foreign counterpart in a non-traditional security field. The operation, code-named [...]

Pakistan, Turkey to launch defense production joint venture

APP, ISLAMABAD, Oct. 23– Pakistan and Turkey on Thursday agreed to launch joint venture in the defense production sector to help cater each other's needs in the field.

Russia sticks with old ballistic missiles

Wire reports, MOSCOW

European Military To Become Alternative to NATO

Pravda, The idea of establishing a joint European military is still rather unclear. The EU will have to overcome a number of serious problems among members, as well as between “old Europe” and “new Europe” to make a joint military a reality. Nevertheless, the paragraph on the establishment of the European army was added in [...]

Pak-China Agree To Enhance Cooperation In Defence

PNS, BEIJING, China: Oct 23 (PNS) – Pakistan and China have agreed to beef up cooperation to meet the professional requirements of their armed forces. There was a complete unanimity of views on strengthening military-to-military relations during the meeting held in Beijing between Pakistan Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat and the Chinese [...]

 
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