MOSCOW, March 28 (Reuters) - Several Russian warships have passed the Bab al-Mandab Strait into the Red Sea, the Russian navy's Pacific Fleet said on Thursday, amid attacks by Yemen's Houthis on merchant shipping.
The Zvezda TV channel, owned by the defence ministry, quoted the fleet as saying the Russian cruiser Varyag and the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov were taking part in the voyage. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Mark Heinrich)
A Russian missile attack destroyed five warplanes at a Ukrainian airbase primed to receive F-16 fighter jets from Kyiv’s Nato allies.
Rear Adm. Marc Miguez, who oversaw months of combat between the US Navy and the Houthis, shared what he learned from the Red Sea battle.
Houthi drone boat attacks and threatening behavior have been on the rise, continuing after a US carrier departed.
Scarborough Shoal is a ring of rocks and reefs 29 miles around that lies within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea west of Luzon, the Philippines’ biggest island. Unfortunately for the Philippines, the Shoal also lies within the so-called “Nine Dash Line” under which China attempts to claim that it owns more or less the entire South China Sea – in defiance of international law and international court judgement.
Estonia has ramped up its defense spending and believes it could hold out for a couple of weeks before reinforcements came, if Russia attacked.
Ukraine's F-16s are set to arrive when it's allowed to use allied weapons to hit targets in Russia — making the jets far more effective, experts say.
The Netherlands' defense minister said the delivery of the first F-16s to Ukraine "will proceed soon," with export licenses now issued.
Russian submarines twice conducted unprecedented missions in the Irish Sea after Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, it has emerged.
Russia said on Tuesday it had destroyed five Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jets with Iskander-M missiles and damaged two more at the Myrhorod airfield in Ukraine's central Poltava region. Ukraine said there had been a strike at the airfield but that Russia was exaggerating the damage caused. Ukraine did not detail exactly what had been damaged.
Russian exercises involved submarines dueling in the Baltic Sea, as well as practicing detecting, tracking, and evading enemy subs.
Some of Russia's devastating glide bombs are falling on its own territory. One analyst said this was probably because of cheap guidance systems.
The protest highlighted the fault line in Israeli society between ultra-Orthodox Jews and other Israelis, many of whom believe that all Jewish citizens should serve in the military, especially during wartime.
Jewish protesters campaigning against military service outside the Israeli supreme court have been washed out by security forces who sprayed the group with a crowd-control substance.
Cuba is building a new radar site likely to be capable of spying on the United States' nearby Guantanamo Bay naval base, a Washington think tank found using satellite images, the latest upgrade to the country's surveillance capabilities long thought to be linked to China. The base, under construction since 2021 but previously not publicly reported, is east of the city of Santiago de Cuba near the El Salao neighborhood, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report published on Monday and later referenced by the Wall Street Journal.
Hours after the assault, the tidy streets of Starokostiantyniv had returned to a semblance of normality. But the June 27 attack was a stark reminder of the challenges Kyiv faces as it rebuilds its depleted air force and deploys the first U.S.-designed F-16s - fighter aircraft that Russia will be determined to ground or destroy. The first planes are expected to arrive this month, and Ukraine hopes they will boost forces struggling to repel a Russian onslaught along the front line, which includes devastating glide bombs that F-16s could potentially disrupt.
Harrison Mann, military expert who quit over Gaza, says ruinous war in Lebanon would pull US into regional conflict
A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer told Congress last summer about a government program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects. The Mexican Congress held an unprecedented session in September during which supposed mummies were presented as “nonhuman beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution.”
Russia's new alliance with North Korea, necessitated by its war in Ukraine, has South Korea deeply concerned.
Vladimir Putin has proved quite reluctant to strike directly at the West over its support of Ukraine. But that may not change.
The new head of the British Army, General Sir Roly Walker, has declared in an opening salvo to whichever party wins next week’s election that he wants to double the military’s lethality.
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