Sourced : Systems Sunlight & Wikipedia After the successful participation of SYSTEMS SUNLIGHT in the international tender launched by DCNS, France, the company was awarded the contract for the design, construction and delivery of submarine batteries for the new category of BARRACUDA-class (or SUFFREN-class) nuclear powered attack submarines of the French Navy. After the prototype… Continue reading STRATEGIC AGREEMENT OF SYSTEMS SUNLIGHT S.A. WITH THE FRENCH NAVY
CAN ALLIES COUNTER THE RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET ? NATO MULLS A PLAN
Sourced The Wall Street Journal By Julian E. Barnes Romania has a newly operational missile defense site, but it wants more. Romanian officials said they are pressing the alliance not to forget about its southeastern border as it goes about reinforcing the northeastern one. Alliance officials have said in recent days that Poland and the… Continue reading CAN ALLIES COUNTER THE RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET ? NATO MULLS A PLAN
ISIS HIT PESHMERGA ON GWER FRONT WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS INJURING 14 SOLDIERS
Sourced : RUDAW ISIS militants carried out a chemical attack on Peshmerga front lines on Saturday, wounding 14 Peshmerga, Sirwan Barzani, Peshmerga Commander of the Gwer-Makhmour front said. Barzani said that Islamic State militants attacked Peshmerga fronts with heavy weapons armed with poison gas late on Saturday afternoon. Fourteen Peshmerga were wounded. “The conditions of… Continue reading ISIS HIT PESHMERGA ON GWER FRONT WITH CHEMICAL WEAPONS INJURING 14 SOLDIERS
ROLLS ROYCE TO PROVIDE DIESEL GENERATORS FOR FIRST TYPE 26 FRIGATES
Sourced : Naval Today BAE Systems, the company responsible for UK’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship program, has awarded an equipment contract to Rolls-Royce to manufacture diesel generators for the first three Type 26 anti-submarine warfare ships. This marks the first Type 26 manufacturing contract to be agreed since the UK Ministry of Defence announced… Continue reading ROLLS ROYCE TO PROVIDE DIESEL GENERATORS FOR FIRST TYPE 26 FRIGATES
INDRA DRILLS TO BE HELD IN RUSSIA’S FAR EAST IN SECOND HALF OF 2016
Sourced : TASS Joint Russian-Indian war games Indra-2016 will be held in the period of July to December 2016 on the Sergeyevsky practice ground in Russia’s Far-Eastern Primorsky (Maritime) territory, Alexander Gordeyev, the chief press officer of the Eastern Military District told TASS after a conference on preparations for the exercise. The conference was held… Continue reading INDRA DRILLS TO BE HELD IN RUSSIA’S FAR EAST IN SECOND HALF OF 2016
ISIL “CV’S” REVEAL BRITISH ELECTRONIC ENGINEER,NORWEGIAN PILOT AND TURKISH NATO OFFICER
Sourced : The Telegraph By Josie Ensor From an experienced electronic engineer at a British company to a Turkish Nato officer and a Norwegian helicopter pilot, leaked “CVs” of some of Isil’s most elite fighters reveal just how experienced the group’s foreign command are. The files contain the names of 368 Islamic State fighters enrolled… Continue reading ISIL “CV’S” REVEAL BRITISH ELECTRONIC ENGINEER,NORWEGIAN PILOT AND TURKISH NATO OFFICER
RUSSIAN MIG-31 INTERCEPTS U.S P-8 PATROL AIRCRAFT NEAR RUSSIA’S FAR EAST
Sourced : The Aviationist On Apr. 21, a Russian Air Force MiG-31 jet intercepted a U.S. P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flying in international airspace near Kamchatka Pensinsula, in Russia’s Far East, where a firing range used also to test intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from Borei-class strategic nuclear submarines is located. The Russian Soviet-design supersonic… Continue reading RUSSIAN MIG-31 INTERCEPTS U.S P-8 PATROL AIRCRAFT NEAR RUSSIA’S FAR EAST
TURKEY TO DEVELOP ITS OWN MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM
Sourced : Defence World Turkey is eyeing to develop its own missile defense system to be operated by NATO so as to increase chances of entering the alliance and to increase military exports by 15 times in the next seven years. “We have cancelled the results of the tender, not the project itself. Soon we… Continue reading TURKEY TO DEVELOP ITS OWN MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM
DEFENCE MINISTER SAYS POLISH ARMY WILL BE 50 PERCENT LARGER
Sourced : Radio Poland Speaking to journalists in the city of Bydgoszcz, north central Poland, where he opened a new building for a NATO Force Integration Unit (NFIU), the minister forecast that the number of Polish soldiers will reach about 150,000. “The Polish army will be bigger, we envisage a fundamental increase in the army,… Continue reading DEFENCE MINISTER SAYS POLISH ARMY WILL BE 50 PERCENT LARGER
US BACKS NATO FORCE OFF LIBYA AS MIGRANT NUMBERS SOAR
Sourced : Voice of America By : Henry Ridgwell A NATO-led mission aimed at stemming the flow of migrants from Libya to Europe could be up and running by July, according to the Italian government. There are fears the numbers of migrants could soar as the route through Greece and the Balkans remains blocked. Libyan… Continue reading US BACKS NATO FORCE OFF LIBYA AS MIGRANT NUMBERS SOAR