Archive for category: Regional News

Counter Terror Expo 2012 delegates are set to discover how the momentous events that have occurred during the past year, will force us to reassess and realign counter terrorism strategies to meet potential new threats emerging from the turmoil we have witnessed. Previously hard-line autocracies across a swathe of North [...]

“Iran has enough nuclear material for four bombs,” the Director of Israel’s Military Intelligence Major General Aviv Kochavi warned today

+$900 Million for AN/TPY-2 Radars | Boeing Selected to Continue Ground-Based Ballistic Missile Defense System Support

New AWACS Plane Enters Russian Air Force Service | India to get Russian aircraft carrier by December | Vietnam Receives Su-30 Fighters | Russia Upgrades RS-18 With a New Warhead | Russia to complete delivery of 21 helicopters to Afghanistan by July | Repairs on Russian sub to take a year | Mexico Orders Three Mi-17V-5 Transport Helicopters

Poland to Supply Additional 204 Armored Recovery Vehicles to India | Selex Sistemi Integrati New Contracts In India | India to get Russian aircraft carrier by December | New Missiles to Upgrade Indian Mirage 2000s | North Korea Tests Short Range Ballistic missiles | Russia to complete delivery of 21 helicopters to Afghanistan by July | India’s Indigenous Carrier Floats, but Not for the Right Reasons | Stinger Missiles Cleared for Indian Apaches | Vietnam Receives Su-30 Fighters | Vietnam’s Navy Inducts First Locally Built TT400TP Gunboat

Singapore has the largest defense expenditure in South East Asia, and, in 2008, the country had the world’s fourth-largest per capita defense expenditure, behind only Israel, the US and Oman. The country’s defense expenditure is high due to the small size of the country’s armed forces and consequent ever-present requirement [...]