Weekend Briefing (9-13 August)
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 Defense we covered the news that mandatory COVID-19 vaccination will be required by the U.S. military by mid-September, the US embassy withdraws from Kabul amid the Afghan national army’s collapse, Indonesia is to cease controversial ‘virginity tests as well as the U.S. Department of Defense’s concerns about climate breakdown, India testing the Nirbhay Cruise Missile, the U.S. Large Scale Exercise continues and we examine the development of the AGM-158C LRASM missile. These stories and more are rounded up below:
Mauritius Denies Reports of Plans to House Indian Base
Russian Peacekeepers Deployed To The Tavush Region On The Armenian-Azerbaijan Border
US Department of Defense Increasingly Affected by Climate Change
Russian Defense Minister Gives Update On The Su-34 Modernization & The S-70 Hunter Drone
Indonesian Army Ending ‘Virginity Tests’ For Female Recruits
Pentagon: COVID-19 Vaccine Required By Mid-September
First Phase of ASELSAN’s Swarm USV Project Albatros-S Completed
US Seeks “Joint International Response” To Taliban Advances
Nigeria and Cameroon Report Surrender of Hundreds of Boko Haram Fighters
RAAF Super Hornet Performs Arrested Landing During Talisman Sabre 21
UK Invests £9.5 Million Into Military Satellite
Biden Administration Approves M109A6 Howitzer Sale To Taiwan.
DARPA Project to Counter Superbugs Moves Forward
Biden: No Changes To Afghanistan Withdrawal Plans Despite Taliban Offensive
US Navy and Marine Corps Conducting Large Scale Exercise 2021
India Successfully Tests The Nirbhay (ITCM) Cruise Missile Developed by The DRDO
United States Army Picks SNC And General Dynamics for Next-Gen Crypto Key Loader Contracts
3,000 US Troops To Support Partial Withdrawal Of Kabul Embassy Staff
Pakistan Conducts Training Launch For Ghaznavi Surface-To-Surface Ballistic Missile
Improving the U.S Navy’s Newest Anti-ship Missile
UK To Deploy Troops For Evacuations Of Citizens, Afghan Staff
Four Killed In Apparent Murder-Suicide At Royal Malaysian Air Force Base
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