TOKYO (AP) — Japan raised strong caution against China’s rapid acceleration of military activity in extensive areas from its southwestern coasts to the Pacific, describing the moves as the biggest strategic challenge. China’s growing joint operations with Russia also pose serious security concerns to Japan, along with increasing tension around Taiwan and threats coming from…
Decks below F-35B Lightning II fighters and Wildcat attack helicopters, Chief Petty Officer Martin Miller keeps watch over the Royal Navy’s first-ever seafaring computer gaming room. It’s not his main job, of course. Miller is one of two logistics store chiefs on board the HMS Prince of Wales, the UK’s second aircraft carrier. Business Insider…
A new video shows how prolific jamming-resistant fiber-optic drones are becoming on the battlefields in Ukraine. There are wires scattered all over the place. On Friday, Ukraine’s defense ministry shared a video from the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of Serebryansky Forest covered in webs of fiber optic cables. “Just imagine how many drones are flying here,”…
A multi-nation survey published last week found a significant decline in the proportion of Ukrainians who believe they can beat Russia’s invasion. Small wonder. For Kyiv, 2024 was a nightmare, created in large part by a collapse of the early war’s winning formula: the matching of Ukrainian motivated manpower to sophisticated Western arsenals. So does…
China named a new political commissar for its large ground forces, an unexpected move that signals President Xi Jinping is tightening military discipline. General Chen Hui has been appointed to instill political loyalty and manage manpower in the ground forces of the People’s Liberation Army, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday. The 61-year-old…
Taiwan said China restricted airspace off its southeastern coast and sent naval vessels near the strait separating them, a sign Beijing may hold military drills in one of the world’s most tense geopolitical hotspots. China reserved seven airspace areas east of its Zhejiang and Fujian provinces through Wednesday, the Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense said…
China is investigating its defense minister for corruption, according to the Financial Times, a move that would come after a slew of high-profile purges rocked the People’s Liberation Army and took down both of his predecessors. Admiral Dong Jun is facing the inquiry “as part of a broader probe into graft” the newspaper reported Wednesday,…
Ukraine fired six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Russia’s Bryansk region, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, days after U.S. President Joe Biden eased restrictions on Ukrainian use of American-made weapons in the war that has reached its 1,000-day milestone. Ukraine claimed it hit a military weapons depot in Bryansk in the middle of the night, though…
Israel’s assaultBloomberg Terminal on Iran early Saturday, coordinated with Washington and limited to missile and air defense sites, was more restrained than many expected and may help diplomatic efforts to return hostages and limit the combat in both Lebanon and Gaza. Israel held off until US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Washington from…
China’s military on Monday launched military drills around Taiwan, calling the large-scale exercises a “stern warning to the separatist acts of Taiwan Independence forces.” The exercises, code-named Joint Sword-2024B, are intended “to test the joint operations capabilities of the theater command’s troops,” China’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. It did not say when the…