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Australia first to buy long-range, high-speed, air-to-air missile made in U.S.
FORUM Staff Australia will be the first nation to buy the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), a highly classified air-to-air weapon built in the United States that Canberra can…
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New Zealand foils Beijing-linked plan to gather satellite information
Reuters New Zealand’s security agency said it disrupted an attempt by a Chinese Communist Party-linked observatory to install satellite-tracking infrastructure in the country, highlighting the case in its annual assessment…
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Australia solidifies role as Pacific island region’s largest aid provider, report says
FORUM Staff Australia has become the largest aid provider to the Pacific island region, according to the latest Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map, which features data from 2008 through 2024.…
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Advanced capabilities needed to counter China-Russia space weapon cooperation
FORUM Staff China and Russia are expanding cooperation on space capabilities to degrade, disrupt or destroy military satellites as well as commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. Beijing and Moscow…
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AI-driven defense capabilities reshaping underwater domain
Prateek Joshi Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the contest for undersea dominance from a platform-centered mission into a data-dominant competition, with the Indo-Pacific emerging as its most consequential theater. As…
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Pre-positioned military assets a force multiplier, especially in Indo-Pacific
FORUM Staff Stockpiling essential equipment and supplies in strategic locations can dramatically improve a military force’s response time and effectiveness in a contingency. The pre-positioning of materials offshore and on…
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Nations build regional crisis response capabilities during health security summit in Malaysia
FORUM Staff Health security is national security. That was the consensus of a gathering of civilian, military and nongovernmental agency leaders from 20 nations focusing on the intersection of both…
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Fiji, Philippines, Sri Lanka enlist drones to strengthen maritime security
Sarah Chan Indo-Pacific nations increasingly are incorporating low-cost drones, autonomous vessels and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled surveillance systems to expand maritime awareness. Fiji, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are among those…
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U.S. firm launching 30 satellites for Japanese dual-use constellation
APOGEE Staff From its launch center in New Zealand, a United States company has orbited a Japanese satellite that will expand the reach of an Earth observation constellation providing data…
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AUKUS advancing deep space surveillance initiative
Peter Parson The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) project, an initiative under the AUKUS partnership of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, is emerging as a centerpiece…
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