Pentagon: Pentagon aims to counter China numerical advantage with dronesworld news

WSHINGTON: The Pentagon plans to field thousands of drones within the next two years to help counter China‘s numerical edge in personnel and military hardware, a senior US defense official said Monday.Beijing’s main advantage is “mass: More ships. More missiles. More people,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said at a military technology conference in

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Satellite Launch: US and allies clash with North Korea, China and Russia over failed satellite launch and tensionsworld news

The United States and its allies clashed Friday with North Korea, Russia and China over Pyongyang’s failed attempts to launch a spy satellite and who is responsible for escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The open Security Council meeting called by the US, Albania, Ecuador, France, Japan and Malta to condemn the attempted launch, which

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Russia: Russia’s military ties with Iran will withstand geopolitical pressureworld news

Russia’s military cooperation with Iran will not succumb to geopolitical pressure, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, following reports that Washington has asked Teheran to stop selling drones to Moscow. “There are no changes, and cooperation with Iran will continue,” Ryabkov said, according to a report on Saturday from Russian state news agency RIA.

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