The Evolving Indian-Russian Relationship

07/13/2017
2017-07-13 By Brig (Retd) Gurmeet Kanwal New Delhi Defence Ministers Arun Jaitley and General Sergey Shoigu jointly chaired the 17th meeting of the India-Russia Inter-governmental Commission on Military-technical Cooperation on June 21-23, 2017, at Moscow. The two sides agreed on a roadmap and signed a protocol to take defence cooperation to…

Arctic Challenge Exercise 2017 (2)

06/20/2017
06/20/2017: Arctic Challenge is a multinational training exercise to strengthen partnerships with other armed forces in the region. The purpose of the exercise is to practice mobilizing; evaluate aircraft, personnel and weapons capabilities; and train in multinational operations. The scenarios involve notional, simulated events, and combined flying operations between the countries.

The…

NATO Enhances its Collective Defense Capabilities

06/20/2017
06/19/2017: According to an article on the Italian Ministry of Defence website published on June 14, 2017, Szczecin Multinational Corps North-East Has Achieved NATO Full Operational Capability. NATO can now rely on a new High Readiness Headquarters In fact, having achieved Full Operational Capability as a result of a tactical assessment,…

Arctic Challenge Exercise 2017

06/19/2017
06/19/2017: Arctic Challenge is a multinational training exercise to strengthen partnerships with other armed forces in the Northern European region. The purpose of the exercise is to practice mobilizing; evaluate aircraft, personnel and weapons capabilities; and train in multinational operations. The scenarios involve notional, simulated events, and combined flying operations between…

Australian Navy Works with Fiji

06/08/2017
06/08/2017: Royal Australian Navy patrol boat HMAS Wollongong has completed an official visit to Fiji, including a four-day exercise within Fiji’s Exclusive Economic Zone with the Republic of Fiji Navy Ship Kula. Wollongong is on a South West Pacific deployment, which includes visits to the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, as part of the…