TEHRAN, Apr 13 -France's 'yellow vests' are back in the street, hoping to make a comeback after participation dropped to its lowest level since the start of the movement last weekend.
TEHRAN, Apr 13 -Top Defense Department officials have detailed plans to develop the Space Force, including a massive network of satellites, recognizing that the "status quo is not sufficient" to confront adversaries in outer space.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - Officials from the United Arab Emirates signed a deal with Lockheed Martin for it's new anti-missile system, and other deals with Raytheon, Thales, Rheinmetall and Saab, among others.
TEHRAN, Feb 13 - The Defense Intelligence Agency in a new report points to space, and specific threats from Russia and China, as a key consideration for potential future attacks.
TEHRAN, Feb 09 -The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of two large aircraft self-protection suites for aircraft used to transport the prime minister and president of India.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 -Raytheon and the U.S. Navy tested the Ship Self Defense System Integrated Combat System aboard the first of the new class of aircraft carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford.
TEHRAN, Jan 27 - Washington is considering a plan to illegally maintain a force contingent at a US military base in Syria to “combat” Iran’s influence in the region and even strike Iranians passing by near the base while purportedly claiming “self- defense ,” despite a presidential order to pull out all US forces from the country, a report said.
TEHRAN, Jan 25 - Major General Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), has topped Foreign Policy (FP)’s 2019 list of Global Thinkers in the defense and security field.
TEHRAN, Jan 17-U.S. President Donald Trump is due to unveil a revamped U.S. missile defense strategy on Thursday that looks at ways to boost America’s security, including by possibly deploying a new layer of space-based sensors to detect and track enemy missiles.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said the administration is determined to proceed with the plans to boost the country’s missile industry in the next Iranian calendar year.
TEHRAN, December 08 -Japan is reportedly planning to increase its defense spending to a record high level over the next five years amid heightened US pressure to buy more American military equipment and join Washington to counter China.
TEHRAN, November 28 -Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a wider use of national currencies in mutual trade with other countries as a necessary step to move away from the dollar and accordingly dodge US pressures.
TEHRAN, November 19 - In Berlin, President Emmanuel Macron of France renews the call for Europe to do more for its own defense and security, saying the continent cannot “become of plaything of great powers,” days after he irked the US by urging the formation of an independent European army.
TEHRAN, November 06 - French President Emmanuel Macron called Tuesday for a "real European army" as the continent marks a century since the divisions of World War I, to better defend itself against Russia and even the United States.
TEHRAN, October 31 - The U.K. Ministry of Defense received a $1.3 billion budget increase for cyber security, anti-submarine warfare and the Dreadnought nuclear submarine build programs.
TEHRAN, October 27 -General Dynamics Land Systems won an award to provide various electronic components for the M1 Abrams tank by the Defense Logistics Agency.
TEHRAN, October 20 -Navistar Defense has been awarded a $19.7 million modification to an existing contract with the U.S. Army to provide technical support for in-production and out-of-production of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected, or MRAP, MaxxPro family of vehicles.
TEHRAN, September 17 - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused Russia on Monday of attempting to influence the outcome of a referendum in Macedonia on changing the country’s name that would open the way for it to join NATO and the European Union.