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TOKYO — Japan plans to spend $2.1 billion on its military over the next few months as part of a huge stimulus package, a defense ministry official said Jan. 9, amid growing concerns over a rising China.
On June 11, a massive Navy surveillance drone plummeted into swampland on an island in the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland’s eastern shore. The unmanned aircraft had a 45-foot fuselage — as long as a luxury motor coach — and a wingspan of more than 100 feet.
Having failed to produce timely defense spending bills or avoid a chaotic end to a year-long march toward sequestration, the recently-deceased 112th Congress also failed to approve a normally prosaic measure allowing the transfers of old U.S. Navy ships to friendly navies.
NEW DELHI — The Indian government has rejected a proposed joint venture between Israel’s Rafael and Mahindra Defence Systems to produce anti-torpedo systems, a move that surprised Mahindra officials and could undermine future foreign teaming efforts with private Indian companies.
TOKYO — Japan is considering introducing U.S. spy drones to boost surveillance of its territorial waters near islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Beijing, Kyodo News said Dec. 31.
MOSCOW— A Russian warship carrying a unit of marines has left its Black Sea port for Syria amid preparations for a possible evacuation of nationals living and working in the strife-torn country, news reports said Dec. 30.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has recovered what it believes to be debris from the engine of the long-range rocket launched by North Korea this month, the South Korean defense ministry said Dec. 28.
SYDNEY — Australia and China are planning joint military exercises that may also include the United States as the nations work to ensure stability in the region, Canberra’s defense chief said Dec. 27.
MANILA — The Philippines said Dec. 27 it would buy three naval helicopters from an Anglo-Italian manufacturer as part of its military modernization program amid a territorial dispute with China.
TEHRAN — Iran on Dec. 25 launched naval maneuvers in the Gulf and announced plans for another exercise in the strategic Strait of Hormuz later this week, media reports said.
MELBOURNE — A government-commissioned review examining problems with Australia’s Collins-class submarines found that inadequately designed logistical support arrangements were unable to keep an adequate number of boats at sea.
The effort to design and develop the U.S. Navy’s next ballistic missile submarine got a major boost Friday with the announcement of a nearly $2 billion contract award to General Dynamics.
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan Navy has test-fired a new land attack missile in the North Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan this week.
NEW DELHI — Indian private sector shipyard Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has delivered its first homemade high speed interceptor boat for use by the Indian Coast Guard, the company announced Dec. 20.
MOSCOW — Russia is sending a new flotilla of warships to the Mediterranean, the defense ministry said Dec. 18, amid the escalating situation in Syria.
The first Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) is now officially in U.S. Navy hands, having been delivered from shipbuilder Austal USA on Dec. 5.
NEW DELHI — The Indian government has cleared a $390 million proposal to upgrade the country’s coastal security, which involves buying additional patrol vessels and improving the radar network.
ANKARA — Turkey plans to build four frigates with assistance from foreign shipyards and likely will fund an additional four for a total cost of about $7 billion, after the current production of eight corvettes is completed between 2015 and 2020, a senior procurement official said.
A U.S. Navy move to decommission nine warships and save more than $4 billion over the next five years remained in abeyance as Congress wraps up its defense work for 2012, leaving service leaders to ponder how they’ll proceed should lawmakers keep most of the ships in service.
LONDON — The British Royal Navy’s nuclear attack submarine plans have been boosted by a Ministry of Defence announcement that it has awarded contracts for building two Astute-class boats and production of long-lead items for a further two vessels.
The U.S. Navy wants it. Industry wants it. Democrats and Republicans want it. Appropriators and authorizers want it. Everybody, it seems, wants to put a second Virginia-class nuclear submarine back in the fiscal 2014 budget, keeping the service and its industrial suppliers on a two-boats-per-year building schedule.
TOKYO — Japan on Dec. 7 ordered its military to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the nation’s territory as Washington put anti-missile destroyers into position, ramping up pressure on Pyongyang.
HELSINKI — The Swedish government’s tight-fisted spending position on defense has come under fresh scrutiny following a report by the National Audit Office (NAO — in Swedish Rikrevisionen) that concludes the current budgeting regime is forcing military cuts that significantly reduce the availability and rapid-response capability of core Air Force and naval units.
LONDON — Ship repair yards Cammell Laird and the A&P Group have taken the lion’s share of a 349 million pound ($560.3 million) deal with the U.K. Ministry of Defence to undertake long-term maintenance of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessels.
BEIJING — The United States welcomes China’s participation in U.S.-led joint naval exercises next year, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Wednesday during an official visit to the country.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has launched a new project to replace the aging helicopters used by the U.S. president, three years after a program was canceled due to surging costs.
NEW DELHI — India on Nov. 26 said long-time ally Russia would finally hand over a refurbished aircraft carrier next year and end a bitter dispute over the Soviet-era warship caused by rising costs and delays.
BEIJING — China has conducted the first landing of a fighter jet on its new aircraft carrier in a move that extends Beijing’s ability to project its growing military might in territorial disputes.
BEIJING — China should independently build its own aircraft carriers, the country’s largest shipbuilder said at a pivotal Communist Party meeting where Beijing announced plans to become a “maritime power.”
The U.S. Navy is positioning its mine-hunting forces for an extended stay in the Arabian Gulf by bringing some extra ships home, relying more heavily on newly introduced technologies and adding two new crews to help man the ships.
LONDON — BAE Systems has agreed to acquire Marine Hydraulics International in a $69 million deal that will boost the British-based company’s U.S. maritime repair and upgrade business.
MELBOURNE, Australia — The shipbuilding industry in Australia is facing pressure from a shortage of skilled labor and a lack of continuity in naval shipbuilding projects.
PARIS — A legal tribunal Nov. 13 cut back to some 3 million euros ($3.8 million) a 45.5 million euro claim by Taiwan on the supply of spare parts for the 1991 Bravo contract for six Lafayette stealth frigates, a source familiar with the deal said.
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