Posted on Dec 8th It’s no secret that North Korea has been providing missile technology to Syria, to Iran and to other countries, typically in the form of local assembly, although several of Pyongyang’s former missile customers have stopped their business. The issue of nuclear co-operation is quite a bit less clear. With regard to [...]

Posted on Nov 28th North Korea has supplied Syria and Iran with a special kind of steel used to upgrading missiles and building centrifuges for Uranium enrichment, the German newspaper Die Welt reported over the weekend. The material, called maraging steel, appears on the monitoring list of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Missile Technology [...]

Posted on Nov 28th Prime Minister Noda is heading to China in December and one of the points on Noda’s agenda will be a request for Chinese help in hunting down the source of the cyber-attacks on Japanese defense manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and the attempted unauthorized access to other defense contractors including Kawasaki Heavy [...]

Posted on Nov 28th In 2007 news agency Kanwa exclusively reported from St. Petersburg that China would buy 4 arresters designed by Marine Engineering Research Institute and made by Proletarsky Zavod plant which produces all Russian arresters and arresting hooks. Earlier on, China had contacts with this plant purchasing constituent parts for Project 956E/EM destroyers. Kanwa reported referring to a [...]

Posted on Nov 17th TAIPEI – Members of the U.S. Congress are calling on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to conduct a National Security Review and a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review of a new joint venture between General Electric (GE) and the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). Two letters sent [...]

Posted on Nov 10th The U.S. Navy has quietly added a capability to its future carrier-launched unmanned warplane that has the potential to tilt the Pacific balance of power. On November 2, the Navy announced it would add equipment and software for aerial refueling to one of its two in-development X-47B armed drones built by Northrop Grumman. [...]

Posted on Nov 3rd Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Defense Department offered India technology sharing and talks on its top weapons program, Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, to gain more security cooperation in the face of regional competition from China. “Should India indicate interest in the JSF, the United States would be [...]

Posted on Nov 1st Cyber hackers “achieved all steps required to command” a NASA satellite, which put the satellite at risk of being destroyed or damaged, according to a draft report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The Terra EOS AM-1 satellite, used to study climate and environmental changes, experienced nine or more [...]

Posted on Oct 25th TOKYO – Information on military aircraft and nuclear power plants may have been stolen in a series of cyber attacks on Japanese defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy, a report said Oct. 24. Mitsubishi Heavy said in late September that 83 computers at 11 of its facilities had been hit by cyber attacks [...]

Posted on Oct 19th Russia has deployed “Buk-M1” anti-aircraft missile systems  and a battalion of T-80 tanks on the Kurils. The Defence Ministry is strengthening the military contingent on the islands which are claimed by Japan. It says that this is only the first part of the plan aimed at equipping the troops on the [...]