10 days with the US Coast Guard on the new Arctic front lines
As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...
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NORAD fighter jets monitor Russian aircraft north of Alaska
The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled U.S. and Canadian fighter jets last week to accompany a formation of ...
See How Russia Is Winning the Race to Dominate the Arctic
Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise ...
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Ukrainian Drones Strike Aviation Plant in Russia's Smolensk
Air defense forces have repelled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Smolensk region, Governor Vasily Anokhin reported. Over the past 24 hours, Russian military shot down 156 Ukrainian drones, ...
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Arctic’s ‘sad’ future, Panama Canal ‘tragedy’? Trump’s inauguration pledge to expand US soil fuels concerns
Donald Trump argues that the US needs Greenland for national security, while a retaking of the Panama Canal is necessary to curb the overcharging of American ships and combat Chinese influence.
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Ukraine Developing Patriot-Inspired Air Defense System
It has been credited with downing next-generation Russian missiles, like the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Ukrainian servicemen walk past a Patriot air defense system at an undisclosed area on ...
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Ukraine says it's working on its own air defense systems, responding to new Russian missile
Ukraine is working on a homegrown air defense system to rival the US-made Patriot, according to the commander in chief of its army. The decision was spurred by the development of Russia's new ...
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3 killed in Russian attack on Kyiv, officials say
Russian forces launched a combined drone and ... simply would not have happened if we had received all the necessary air defense systems that we have been talking about with our partners for ...
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Russia, Iran deepen defense ties as Putin and Pezeshkian sign 20-year pact
Iran, in turn, wants sophisticated Russian weapons like long-range air defense systems and fighter jets to help fend off possible attacks by Israel. Russia has supplied Iran with S-300 air defense ...
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France slams ‘unacceptable’ Russian targeting of Baltic patrol flight
(Christophe Ena/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — France says a Russian S-400 air-defense system targeted a French maritime patrol flight over the Baltic Sea this week in what the country’s ...
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U.K.’s Starmer visits Ukraine to pledge support amid Russian air raid
Shortly after noon local time, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv ... in the town of Stryi in the Lviv region was hit, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. Maksym Kozytskyy, head of Lviv ...
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US ramps up Russia sanctions, targeting Moscow’s business partners
The Treasury Department announced Wednesday it is amping up its sanctions against companies and entities involved in Russia’s defense industry. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a ...