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 News by Topics: Logistics

  1. US Moves Troops Closer as Security Worsens in Libya

    The United States has moved military forces closer to Libya since the Benghazi attack so they will be ready to respond to threats against diplomatic personnel, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

    • May. 13, 2013
  2. PKK Peace Talks Could Reduce Profile of Elite Turkish Units

    A budding peace process between Turkey and its longtime nemesis, the Kurdish separatist militants, could shrink the prominence and budget of elite Turkish special operations units, officials and analysts agree.

    • May. 11, 2013
  3. Eastern European Armies Boost Spec Ops Forces Cooperation

    Special operations forces troops from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will organize joint drills and set up a multinational Combat Group operating within European Union structures.

    • May. 11, 2013
  4. Norway Revamps Special Operations Capacity

    Special operations has historically been a fragmented, underfunded, noncore resource within Norway's military organization.

    • May. 11, 2013
  5. Selex Artillery-Pointing System Wins Export Orders

    Selex ES has secured export contracts for its LINAPS artillery-pointing system from armed forces in the United Arab Emirates, Poland and New Zealand, the Finmeccanica-owned company announced Wednesday.

    • May. 8, 2013
  6. Quick Strike: The lightweight BattleHawk loitering munition is designed so a soldier can take the system from his backpack and fire within 90 seconds. A video camera built into its nose allows ground troops to pilot it over rooftops or hills. Textron Defense Systems

    Special Report: Precision Strike

    New fights and new ways of fighting require new capabilities. Designing those capabilities for unknown future combat is a complex challenge, but two attributes find utility on any battlefield: speed and precision.

    • May. 7, 2013
  7. Archer Artillery Project Spurs Nordic Cooperation

    The Archer mobile artillery system is the focal point for Nordic development of a weapon that can be used in close-quarter combat but also could spur cross-border industrial cooperation.

    • May. 7, 2013
  8. Rafael Readies New PGM For Fixed, Moving Targets

    Israel's state-owned Rafael is expanding its SPICE family of autonomous, jam-resistant, surgical standoff weapons with a new 250-pound missile against fixed and moving targets.

    • May. 7, 2013
  9. Japan, Taiwan Upgrade Strike Capability

    Japan's main movements on precision strike involve upgrading its Mitsubishi F-2 fighter jet fleet with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) capability, and working on a more accurate surface-to-surface missile.

    • May. 7, 2013
  10. People gather in a cemetery following a funeral in the central city of Homs, Syria, on April 20, 2013. Senior U.S. House members say American intervention in Syria's civil war is likely, but they signaled the Obama administration has yet to settle on what that will entail. AFP/HO/Shaam News Network

    U.S. Lawmakers: Time for 'Next Step' in Syria — But No Ground Forces

    Senior US House members say American intervention in Syria's civil war is likely, but they signaled the Obama administration has yet to settle on what that will entail.

    • Apr. 30, 2013
  11. Report: Chinese Testing Infrastructure with Cyber Intrusions

    Cyber espionage is on the rise, and increasingly Chinese attackers are targeting critical infrastructure, probing networks to see what they can get away with, a new report from Verizon released Tuesday found.

    • Apr. 23, 2013
  12. U.S. Troops To Redeploy After Morocco Cancels War Games

    U.S. troops are to redeploy from Morocco after Rabat canceled annual war games in the kingdom, the U.S. Army said Wednesday, amid sharp disagreement over plans for a U.N. mission in the Western Sahara.

    • Apr. 17, 2013
  13. SIPRI: World Spends Less on Military

    STOCKHOLM — The world spent less on weapons and military services in 2012 than the year before, the first annual drop since 1998, a Swedish think tank said Monday.

    • Apr. 15, 2013
  14. What Are the Facts About N. Korea’s Nuke Capability?

    SEOUL — Findings from a report by the U.S. military spy agency suggest North Korea could be capable of launching a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.

    • Apr. 12, 2013
  15. CRS: Breaking China’s ASBM Kill Chain

    TAIPEI — A new report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) suggests China’s new anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) can be countered, and is not, necessarily, the “game-changer” many defense analysts predict.

    • Apr. 5, 2013
  16. BAE Systems Wins Gun Deal for Malaysian Navy Patrol Vessels

    The Malaysian Navy will equip a new class of patrol vessels with BAE Systems’ 57mm Mk3 guns, the company announced Thursday.

    • Apr. 4, 2013
  17. Rail Issue: U.S. Military Needs New Way To Ship Heavy Vehicles

    WASHINGTON — For more than 100 years, the U.S. military has used the expansive American railroad network to move heavy tanks, trucks and even rocket engines between military bases.

    • Apr. 3, 2013
  18. U.S. Army Learns Lessons in N. Korea-like War Game

    WASHINGTON — It took 56 days for the U.S. to flow two divisions’ worth of soldiers into the failed nuclear-armed state of “North Brownland” and as many as 90,000 troops to deal with the country’s nuclear stockpiles, a major U.S. Army war game concluded this winter.

    • Mar. 26, 2013
  19. Arms Trade Treaty Talks Enter Stormy Final Straight

    UNITED NATIONS — More than 100 countries complained Monday that talks on a conventional arms trade treaty had gone “backwards” from a vow to conclude a strong accord on the $80 billion-a-year trade.

    • Mar. 26, 2013
  20. CIA Helping Syria Rebels Amass Arms: Report

    WASHINGTON — Arab nations and Turkey, helped by the CIA, have dramatically increased military aid to Syrian rebels in recent months, The New York Times reported Monday, citing air traffic data and interviews with unnamed officials and the rebel commanders.

    • Mar. 25, 2013
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