Armed with hypersonic missiles, a Russian frigate has arrived in South Africa. It’s there for joint naval exercises with China and South Africa. Scheduled just before the first anniversary of the Ukraine war. The drills come alongside two U.S. leading military exercises in other parts of Africa.
NATO has launched its week-long annual nuclear exercises in Europe as Russia plans its own nuclear war games around the same time and as tensions simmer over the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Dubbed “Steadfast Noon,” NATO’s nuclear exercises kicked off on Oct. 17 and are “ongoing,” a NATO spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times. Fourteen of NATO’s […]
BRUSSELS—Members of the European Parliament backed a resolution on Thursday that condemned China’s live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait and called for closer ties between the European Union and Taipei. The EU assembly said in a statement that the resolution, backed in a vote by 424 lawmakers with 14 against and 46 abstentions, also […]
The United States and South Korea performed a combined air power demonstration over the Asian country’s western sea early on Tuesday to display their combat readiness to North Korea. The two allied nations launched 20 fighter jets in total—including 16 F-35A stealth fighters and four F-16 fighters—over the Yellow Sea, a marginal sea of the […]
SEOUL, South Korea—The U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan concluded a naval exercise with South Korea in the Philippine Sea on Saturday, the two militaries said, amid signs that North Korea is possibly preparing to conduct its first nuclear test explosion since 2017. The three-day exercise that began Thursday in international waters off the Japanese island […]
Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) said Friday that its destroyer equipped with the Aegis air defense system joined a two-day drill with the U.S. destroyers amid North Korea’s nuclear threats. MSDF said that its destroyer Kongo, equipped with Standard Missile-3 interceptors, conducted ballistic missile information-sharing training with the destroyer USS Spruance and the cruiser USS […]
Almost 10,000 Chinese troops joined a drill in Tibet, sending a strong warning to India. On Thursday, the Chinese army posted a video about the drill on messaging platform Weibo, saying the Tibet Military District recently mobilized more than 10 brigades to carry out the drill.
