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Daily Defense News Capsules for 09/10/2021
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The Biden administration has ordered the resignation of members of the advisory boards of the three military academies who were appointed by the Trump administration, reports the Military Times.
On Wednesday, the administration asked 18 Trump appointees to the advisory ...
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Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) has established a new task force to rapidly integrate uncrewed systems and artificial intelligence (AI) with maritime operations, reports U.S. 5th Fleet.
Task Force 59 was established on Thursday during a ceremony at Naval Support ...
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A second Marine Corps squadron in Japan has made the transition to the stealthy F-35 fighter jet, reports Defense News.
On Thursday, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, declared initial operational capability with the F-35B short-takeoff/vertical ...
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Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) has lost nearly all its seats in Parliament, reports Al Jazeera (Qatar).
The PJD won just 12 seats in the 395-member body in Wednesday’s elections, according to provisional results announced by the government on Thursday, ...
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The Indian military has just started a major reorganization, reports the Print (New Delhi).
On Wednesday, Indian government sources confirmed that the “theaterization” process was underway to unify the 17 individual commands controlled by the different services into ...
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Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has appointed the former intelligence chief to a senior advisory role after he was controversially fired by the prime minister, reports the East African (Nairobi).
On Sept. 4, Prime Minister Mohammed Hussein Roble fired ...
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The keel has been laid for the first of four corvettes ordered by Ukraine from Turkey, reports Naval News.
During a Wednesday ceremony, RMK Marine Shipyard in Istanbul laid the keel for the first Ukrainian Heybeliada-class corvette.
Ukraine ordered the ships in October ...
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Pakistan has apparently named South Africa’s Paramount Group as the lead contractor for its project to convert civilian jets into maritime patrol aircraft, reports Defense News.
The newspaper reported in July that Pakistan had selected Italian firm Leonardo as the lead ...
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The Taiwan navy has commissioned its second domestically designed corvette, reports the Central News Agency (Taipei).
On Thursday, the Ta Chiang (PGG-619) officially entered service during a ceremony at the Su’ao naval base in the northeastern Yilan county.
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The Indian navy is about to commission its first ship dedicated to tracking satellites and ballistic missiles, reports the Hindustan Times.
On Friday, the Dhruv is scheduled to formally enter service during a ceremony in Visakhapatnam on the Bay of Bengal.
The 10,000-ton ...
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A senior delegation of Pakistani military officials recently returned from a visit in Burma, reports Zee News (India).
During the visit from Sept. 1 to Sept. 5, the parties discussed advanced ordnance technology, aircraft repair and maintenance and naval munitions, sources ...
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Belarus and Russia have begun their biennial Zapad joint exercise, reports the Tass news agency (Moscow).
The Zapad (West) drills began on Friday with a ceremony in Nizhny Novgorod and are scheduled to conclude on Sept. 16, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The training ...
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Spanish police have arrested a senior Venezuelan intelligence official after he disappeared two years ago, reports the New York Times.
On Thursday, police announced that they had apprehended Hugo Carvajal at an undisclosed location in Madrid.
Carvajal went into hiding ...
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A Russian servicemember has been killed while patrolling in Syria, reports the Moscow Times.
The military police officer was on a patrol in the central province of Homs when his vehicle hit an explosive device, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
The servicemember ...
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Iran has conducted air attacks against Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq, reports Rudaw (Iraqi Kurdistan).
On Thursday, Iranian warplanes and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) struck several locations in Sidakan, Haji Omran and Choman, in Iraq’s northern Erbil province.
Several ...
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A Cameroonian court has sentenced four men to death for a 2020 attack on a school in the western Anglophone region, reports Reuters.
On Tuesday, the court in Buea, the capital of the Anglophone Southwest Region, found the men guilty of terrorism, assassination and attempted ...
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