Sweden says Thailand set to seal next Saab JAS 39 Gripen deal
Still, a Swedish official told Breaking Defense that any deal won't be finalized until the ink is dry during an expected signing ceremony.
After Thailand’s Gripen combat mission, questions of future sales
Thailand and Cambodia appear to have halted hostilities, which raised eyebrows in the Gripen's homeland of Sweden.
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Thailand to acquire first tranche of four Gripen E/Fs, KAI seals deals for 12 more FA-50s for Philippines
For Thailand, the new Gripens will be equipped with the Raven ES-05 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar, Infra-Red Search and Track systems and datalinks.
Thailand’s air force supports buying Gripen fighters over F-16
Saab called it a "positive" step but cautioned that the government will have the final procurement say.
Across the Indo-Pacific, militaries scramble to put more submarines in the water
Several US allies in the region have launched new subs this year, and others are making plans to buy them, reflecting a long-standing focus on undersea warfare that is only intensifying.
State Department Clears Israeli King Stallions, Javelins for Thailand
The announcement of the potential sale come as the Israeli government is sending signals to Washington that any renewed deal with Iran should come with more arms for Israel, including items not normally sold to allies.
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Army’s SFAB Trainers Go Head To Head With Chinese in Asia, Africa
Brig. Gen. Curtis Taylor acknowledged that in the Indo-Pacific, “it’s clear that we are in competition with China in every country that we’re going to.”
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Will Trump’s Halt To US-South Korean Exercises Work? Remember The Vietnam Bombing Halt
President Trump announced that the United States would stop flying bombers over South Korea and suspend exercises there to facilitate diplomatic negotiations with North Korea. This echoes President Johnson’s March 1968 decision to halt the bombing of most of North Vietnam, also done to encourage negotiations. In 1968 the effort succeeded, at least in the short […]
SecDef Mattis To Tap Former Army FAO For DASD South Asia
WASHINGTON: One of the more important national security jobs in this town, deputy assistant defense secretary for south and southeast asia, will be filled by a former Army officer with extensive foreign affairs and counterinsurgency experience, a well placed source tells us. Retired Col. Joe Felter, who now works at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, “led the […]
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1914 Redux? Growing Asia-Pacific Tensions Demand New US Strategy
American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is paying his first visit to Asia this week. Just before he left, Acting Assistant Secretary of State Susan Thornton told reporters the Trump Administration “will have its own formulation” of the Pacific pivot, or the rebalance to Asia declared by the Obama Administration. “Pivot, rebalance, etcetera — that was a word that was […]
US Ships, Planes Challenge 22 Countries’ Claims — Not Just China’s
WASHINGTON: In 2016, the Defense Department flew aircraft or steamed ships through territories claimed by Albania, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Malta, and, well, China, according to the Pentagon’s annual report released today. So should Beijing be relieved it was not the sole focus of American Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS) or should it feel slighted that it […]
SASC Puts Meat On Pacific Pivot’s Bones: $100M Annually For Partners
UPDATE: CSIS’ Mira Rapp-Hooper Praises Move CAPITOL HILL: The Pentagon wants to help our friends in the Pacific. It’s a core mission given America’s pivot back to the Pacific. But it’s hard to do. You can help their forces train with Foreign Military Financing, but it takes two years or so to get something going, and who gets what is really decided by the State […]
Army Communications In Pacific Stretched, Tested
PENTAGON: As the US Army deploys more troops to the Pacific, it’s running into the limits of its long-range communications systems. The shortfall in comms capacity is not only becoming an issue as the service ramps up its “Pacific Pathways” exercises with Asian partners: It is also raising concerns about the network’s resiliency against a […]