MILPLEX

The Military Industrial Complex

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Armenia PM defends move to hike military budget
Nov 16, 2023 (AFP)
Baku and Yerevan have been locked in a decades-long territorial conflict over Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Baku reclaimed i...
Trump ally on trial in Austria over planes 'modified for combat use'
Nov 16, 2023 (AFP)
Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater private security firm, is charged along with four others with violating Austria's War Material Act by modifying and expor...
At BAE factory, Ukraine war fuels munitions output
Nov 13, 2023 (AFP)
Inside the large factory in Washington -- filled with the smell of sulphur and dust -- 14 machines and 340 workers forge and paint artillery, mortars and tank a...
Military families using used a food bank type service reach 1 in 8
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
More than 8,325 families with an active duty service member in the United States Army or Air Force were surveyed in the spring of 2021. Of those, 13.2% reported...
US sanctions Turkey, China, UAE entities to disrupt Russia war
Nov 02, 2023 (AFP)
This comes as Russia has offshored the production of technology, equipment and other goods it needs for its military, relying on suppliers in other countries to...
US charges three more Russians over sanctions evasion
Nov 01, 2023 (AFP)
Nikolay Grigorev, Nikita Arkhipov and Artem Oloviannikov were charged by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York with four counts, including con...
Three Russians arrested in New York for shipping arms components
Oct 31, 2023 (AFP)
Nikolay Golstev, 37, and his wife, Kristina Puzyreva, 32 -- both Russian-Canadian -- were arrested along with their alleged partner Salimdzhon Nariddinov, 52, w...
Seoul, Tokyo, US condemn North Korea's supply of arms to Russia
Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)
Russia and North Korea, historic allies, are both under a raft of global sanctions -- Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, and Pyongyang for its testing of nucle...
Israel says Hamas used N.Korea, Iran weapons in attack
Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)
The military made the statement during an official media tour in which it displayed a variety of weapons recovered from communities in southern Israel attacked ...
Russian lawmakers back massive military spending increase
Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)
Defence spending will account for almost a third of all outlays in 2024 -- up 68 percent to 10.8 trillion rubles ($115 billion). At more than six percent of the...
France announces sale of defensive weapons to Armenia
Oct 23, 2023 (AFP)
The deal was announced weeks after Baku seized Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenian separatists and amid fears in Yerevan that Azerbaijan might now seek to target sou...
Brazil probes theft of heavy machine guns from army base
Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)
The army is scrambling to find how 13 .50-caliber and eight 7.62-caliber machine guns went missing on October 10 from its arsenal in the southeastern town of Ba...
Russia 'highly values' N. Korean support against Ukraine
Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)
Lavrov's comments came as he began a two-day visit to Pyongyang that is expected to lay the groundwork for a trip by President Vladimir Putin. "We highly value ...
N.Korea has sent arms to Russia for use in Ukraine: White House
Oct 13, 2023 (AFP)
The statement comes a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveled to Russia's far east and met President Vladimir Putin, sparking concern among Kyiv's ...
U.S. think tank: Railcar buildup could be N. Korea weapons shipments to Russia
Oct 07, 2023 (UPI)
The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and its Beyond Parallel analytics division released satellite images Friday showing a build-...
Africa interested in making Ukrainian weapons: Kyiv
Sep 30, 2023 (AFP)
Officials from over 30 countries and 250 defence firms gathered for the forum, which was held as Ukraine seeks to attract weapons manufacturers to bolster its d...
Government shutdown would have wide array of detrimental effects
Sep 28, 2023 (UPI)
The governments of China and Russia are not facing a shutdown, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said while urging the U.S. Congress to fund the governmen...
Russia to hike defence spending by almost 70 percent in 2024: ministry
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
Since the conflict began last year, Russia has ramped up arms manufacturing and pumped massive funds into its military machine, despite persistently high inflat...
Russia unveils huge spending hike to battle 'hybrid war'
Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)
With Moscow's "special military operation" now approaching another winter, both sides have been digging deep and procuring weapons from allies in preparation fo...
'Quad' FMs voice opposition to arms deal between Russia, North Korea
Sep 23, 2023 (UPI)
The group of allies, commonly referred to as the Quad, met Friday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to address growing tension...
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