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Seoul, South Korea CNN  — Poland has finalized a deal to acquire a second batch of 180 South Korean tanks under a 2022 agreement that will eventually see Warsaw boost its arsenal with almost 1,000 of the armored vehicles.
Donald Trump says US will send Ukraine more arms  Financial Times Source link
President Donald Trump has said the US has “no stronger partner” than Saudi Arabia during his first major foreign trip – a whirlwind visit of Gulf countries mainly focused on shoring up investment. Speaking in Riyadh, the US president also pledged to lift all sanctions against Syria, saying it was now time for the country […]
The last time India and Pakistan faced off in a military confrontation, in 2019, U.S. officials detected enough movement in the nuclear arsenals of both nations to be alarmed. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was awakened in the middle of the night. He worked the phone “to convince each side that the other was not […]
America’s advanced weapons manufacturers are likely to face a critical shortfall of key rare-earth minerals that they import from China as a consequence of Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Beijing. New export licensing restrictions imposed by China on seven rare earths are like to cause disruptions in supply to more than a dozen US […]
U.S. commanders planning for a possible conflict with China are increasingly concerned that the Pentagon will soon need to move long-range precision weapons from stockpiles in the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East, congressional officials say. That is because of the large amount of munitions that the United States is using in a bombing campaign […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed Wednesday, officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia’s invasion, and officials awaited the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire endorsed by Ukraine. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said . . .
US arms export growth was driven by countries seeking to replenish weapons stocks that were donated to Ukraine. The sale of United States military equipment to foreign governments in 2024 surged 29 percent to a record $318.7bn, the US State Department said, a figure that includes the sale of jet fighters worth $18.8bn to Israel […]
Tensions over arms control treaties intensified after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Putin declared in February 2023 that he would suspend Moscow’s participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States. As a . . .
LIVE: Israel kills 70 Palestinians in Gaza as US proposes $8bn arms sale  Al Jazeera English Source link