US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US Navy will convert surplus oil rigs in the western Pacific into mobile military bases as part of the US military buildup aimed at China, The Defense Post reported on Tuesday. The naval engineering firm Gibbs & Cox developed the concept, known as the Mobile Defense/Depot Platform (MODEP), and presented it earlier this month at the Sea Air Space Expo. The idea is to convert oil rigs...
The “Balikatan” drills will take place for the first time in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.
Two security sources and a senior army officer said a rocket launcher fixed on the back of a small truck had been parked in Zummar border town with Syria.
A senior Cuban diplomat has expressed his nation's commitment to further boosting ties with China but ruled out the possibility of hosting any foreign military bases, even as an intensifying geopolitical feud between China and the United States comes to the Caribbean.On the heels of a Newsweek investigation that revealed previously unseen details regarding Chinese dealings with the tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told Newsweek...
Looks like an attempt by an Iran-affiliated militia group in Iraq to lob rockets at a U.S. military base in Syria was a total dud.
A US military base in Syria has been struck by rockets in a Iraqi drone strike sparking fears for possible casualties. The five rockets were fired toward the town of Zummar today, two Iraqi securit
Iran’s air defense systems were activated in several locations after three explosions were heard close to the airport and an army base in the Iranian city of Isfahan, state media reported early Friday morning.
Iran’s air defense systems were activated in several locations after three explosions were heard close to the airport and an army base in the Iranian city of Isfahan, state media reported early Friday morning.
By Alex Marquardt, Helen Regan, Hamdi Alkhshali, Artemis Moshtaghian and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Israel has carried out a military strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, the latest move in a dangerous escalation that threatens to push the already volatile region into all out war. The US was given advance notification
By Hamdi Alkhshali and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s air defense systems were activated in multiple locations, state media reported early Friday morning, after an explosion was heard close to the airport in the Iranian city of Isfahan. The cause of the explosion, reported by Iranian semi-official FARS news agency which cited local sources,
The US Space Force's Remote Modular Terminal (RMT) jams enemy satellites. It works by flooding the airwaves with competing signals to drown them out. The RMT is the US's newest tool in the space race against Russia and China. READ MORE:
The Philippines and the United States will collaborate to counter China’s “false narratives” on the West Philippine Sea, Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel Romualdez said on Wednesday.