Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most interesting and important news. As we enter the second half of November we have covered a variety… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (15-19 November)"
As the UK’s HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group docked in Singapore, Air Chief Marshall Sir Mike Wigston announced from the aircraft carrier’s deck that both the Royal Navy and… Continue reading "UK Announces Plans for More Regular Deployments to Asia-Pacific"
Welcome back to the Weekend Briefing our regular round up of the week’s defense news. This week saw Japan’s Izumo undertake historic F-35B trials, USS Connecticut was involved in an… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (4-8 October)"
The Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison announced that Australia will be pursuing the purchase of Tomahawk cruise missiles for their Hobart class destroyers, as well as JASSM-ER for their F/A-18… Continue reading "Australia Announces Plan To Procure Tomahawk and JASSM-ER"
Welcome to another Weekend Briefing, where we round-up the week’s most important defense news and some of the stories that may have flown under the radar. This week at Overt… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (2-6 August)"
This weekend at Overt Defense we’re rounding up some of the week’s biggest defense news. The situation in Afghanistan is becoming critical with 1,000 ANA soldiers to fleeing to Tajikistan,… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (5 – 9 July)"
HMS Queen Elizabeth and her Carrier Strike Group have passed through the Suez Canal, and into the Red Sea, beginning phase two of their inaugural deployment. At the same time, Britain’s… Continue reading "HMS Queen Elizabeth enters the Indo-Pacific as HMS Prince of Wales visits Gibraltar"
This week at Overt Defense we have covered a host of stories from around the world ranging from the end of the Belgian manhunt for a reservist who stole a… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (21 – 25 June)"
This week at Overt Defense we took a closer look at the Mi-35 downed in Burma, the shocking testimony of ex-Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher and trials of new supersonic cruise… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (3-7 May)"
This week brought us more interesting military affairs news from around the World. The hunt for Indonesia’s lost submarine, the Nanggala, came to a tragic conclusion, French troops will train… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (26-30 April)"