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The Pentagon’s Defense Acquisitions Board (DAB) of top weapons buyers recertified the tri-service F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program during a Feb. 21 meeting, but high sustainment costs might force the Pentagon to slow production down further or trim flight hours for aircrew, a senior defense official said.
BEIJING — The U.S. special envoy on North Korea on Feb. 22 welcomed Pyongyang’s return to bilateral talks so soon after Kim Jong Il’s death, as he prepared to meet a delegation from the isolated state.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized Feb. 21 for the “inappropriate treatment” of copies of the Quran at an American base in Afghanistan and promised a swift investigation.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration said Feb. 21 it did not favor arming Syria’s opposition but did not rule out the idea completely amid deadly clashes with Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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BONN, Germany — Canadian plans to set up a logistics hub at the German Köln Bonn Airport, announced by Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay during a Feb. 14 visit to Ottawa by his German counterpart, Thomas de Maizière, have been rejected.
ISLAMABAD — Bordering Afghanistan and near the Arabian Sea, Pakistan has become a frontline state in global anti-terrorism endeavors since 2001. Maritime counterterrorism and anti-piracy efforts have increasingly drawn the Pakistan Navy (PN) into international operations such as Coalition Task Force 150 and counterpiracy Coalition Task Force 151.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military officer warned Feb. 19 that intervention in Syria would be “very difficult” and said it would be “premature” to arm the besieged country’s opposition movement.
PARIS — Sofradir, a French maker of infrared detectors, is pushing to pool technology research efforts with competitors AIM of Germany and Selex Galileo in Britain.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military commander said he believed it would be “premature” to take military action against Iran in response to its nuclear program in an interview to be aired Feb. 19.
SEOUL — North Korea warned Feb. 19 it will bombard islands near the disputed Yellow Sea border with South Korea if an upcoming naval firing drill by Seoul violates its territorial waters.
TEHRAN — Iranian warships entered the Mediterranean after crossing the Suez Canal on Feb. 18 to show Tehran’s “might” to regional states, the navy commander said, at a time of simmering tensions with Israel.
SKOPJE — Macedonia on Feb. 18 urged NATO leaders to accept it as a member when the alliance holds a summit in Chicago in May, despite Greek opposition due to a long-running row over its name.
WASHINGTON — The Afghan defense minister warned late Feb. 17 that a U.S. proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more than one-third after 2014 could lead to a catastrophe.
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. member states agreed Feb. 17 on steps to move toward completion in July of a global treaty limiting the global arms trade, participants in a preparatory meeting said.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has placed a hold on the nomination of Mark Lippert to become the Pentagon’s top official for Asia.
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ANKARA — Turkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said Feb. 17.
The U.S. Defense Department needs to be more open to purchasing foreign-made weapons and equipment, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said.
SINGAPORE — A competition pitting Northrop Grumman against Raytheon to supply Active Electronically Scanning Array (AESA) radars for retrofits for F-16 fighter upgrade programs in South Korea and Taiwan is heating up at the Singapore Airshow.
LONDON — British arms manufacturer BAE Systems said Feb. 16 it held out hope that India may reverse its decision to negotiate a mega-contract for 126 fighter jets exclusively with France’s Dassault Aviation.
For the next round of negotiations with Russia on nuclear weapon reductions, the United States would like to focus on nondeployed nuclear weapons and what are known as nonstrategic or “tactical” nuclear weapons, according to State Department officials.
NEW DELHI — India and Saudi Arabia will explore the joint development and production of weapons and equipment to control rising imports.
The United States is paying close attention to Syria’s weapons inventory, especially its stockpile of chemical weapons, U.S. State Department officials said.
WELLINGTON — Withdrawal from its major deployments, delayed upgrade projects and the effective absence for more than six months of the Navy’s flagship are included in a brief prepared for New Zealand’s new Defence Minister, Jonathan Coleman.
BRASILIA — Defense Minister Celso Amorim said Wednesday that Brazil may make a decision on awarding a multibillion-dollar contract for 36 fighter jets in the first half of this year.
PARIS — France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy hosts British Prime Minister David Cameron on Feb. 18 for a summit on boosting defense cooperation and to clear the air after recent bitter clashes over Europe.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called for more “transparency” from China’s military and expanding security ties between the two powers as he hosted leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping on Feb. 14.
SINGAPORE — China’s defense budget will double between 2011 and 2015 and outstrip the combined spending of all other key defense markets in the Asia-Pacific region, global research group IHS said Feb. 14.
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Afghan officials are weeks away from clinching a security pact allowing an American military mission to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Feb. 14.
WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. envoy will hold talks this month in Beijing with North Korea, resuming a dialogue put on hold last year by the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, the State Department said Feb. 13.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. special operations officer, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels, The New York Times reported Feb. 13.
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