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China/Taiwan : How the Kuomintang undermines Taiwanese research

Intelligence Online - Fri, 31/10/2025 - 06:00
Intelligence Online has learned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is losing interest in Taiwanese scientific research. Documented practices show [...]
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AMENDMENTS 1 - 314 - Draft report Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025 - PE779.375v01-00

AMENDMENTS 1 - 314 - Draft report Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025
Committee on Security and Defence
Thijs Reuten

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 238 - Draft report Amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC, as regards the simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and the simplification of security and defence procurement - PE779.329v01-00

AMENDMENTS 1 - 238 - Draft report Amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC, as regards the simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and the simplification of security and defence procurement
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Committee on Security and Defence
Anna-Maja Henriksson, Pekka Toveri

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

AMENDMENTS 315 - 456 - Draft report Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025 - PE779.377v01-00

AMENDMENTS 315 - 456 - Draft report Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025
Committee on Security and Defence
Thijs Reuten

Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

China/Yemen : Submarine cable layers face challenges in Red Sea and around China

Intelligence Online - Thu, 30/10/2025 - 06:00
According to Intelligence Online sources, France's state-owned Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is to lay half of the vast Waterworth underwater fibre optic superhighway announced by Meta in February. Named after former ASN executive Gary Waterworth, who finished his career at [...]
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UAE/United Kingdom : London confirms cyber consultant's imprisonment in UAE

Intelligence Online - Thu, 30/10/2025 - 06:00
British-Australian cyber security professional Andrew Grunstein continues to be detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) nine months after his [...]
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United States : National Intelligence University faculty flee amid Trump administration overhaul

Intelligence Online - Thu, 30/10/2025 - 06:00
Doubts surround the fate of the National Intelligence University (NIU), whose activities risk being transferred to the Pentagon's National Defense [...]
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Denmark : Copenhagen restricts access to companies register in blow to private investigators

Intelligence Online - Thu, 30/10/2025 - 06:00
Denmark's Erhvervsstyrelsen central business register has started restricting third-party access to information about the ultimate beneficiaries of companies registered with [...]
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Thailand/United States : FBI probes Russian-Thai sanctions-busting aviation network

Intelligence Online - Thu, 30/10/2025 - 06:00
The FBI is investigating the United States-based network of Thai company Siam Aero Repair (SAR), which was incorporated into Asia [...]
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Finland’s First F-35A Lightning II Rolls Out of the Assembly Line

The Aviationist Blog - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 23:25
Finnish Air Force personnel are currently undergoing training at Eglin AFB, while extensive infrastructure upgrades and renovation works are underway at home to support the F-35s. Exactly one year after the Finnish Air Force’s first F-35A Lightning II entered production at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility in Texas, airframe JF-501 moved out of the final […]
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U.S. Army Contracts Boeing for Nine More CH-47F Block II Chinook Helicopters

The Aviationist Blog - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 22:03
The CH-47F Block II has improved efficiency, payload and fuel capacity, critical for the Army’s heavy tactical lift missions. Boeing announced on Oct. 21, 2025 two contracts from the U.S. Army, worth $461 million, for nine CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters. Covering Lots 4 and 5, these contracts take the number of the Block II […]
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Italy Goes Ahead with Acquisition of 29 More AW249 Attack Helicopters

The Aviationist Blog - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 16:23
Italy has launched the parliamentary process to approve the acquisition of a new batch of AW249s, which will complete the fleet of 48 attack helicopters. Italian Parliament’s documents show that Italy has launched the approval process for the acquisition of another batch of the new AW249 Fenice attack helicopter for the Italian Army. This batch […]
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UAC Rolls Out Second Prototype of Upgraded Yak-130M

The Aviationist Blog - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 14:16
The Yak-130M sports a host of upgrades, including an advanced AESA radar, avionics, radio communications and targeting suites. One year after Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) presented the upgraded Yak-130M trainer and light fighter aircraft concept, the company unveiled its second manufactured prototype. The aircraft ‘002’ sported a light and dark-grey pixelated livery with UAC […]
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Oman/Yemen : Secret talks with Houthis to restart Red Sea submarine cables projects hit setbacks

Intelligence Online - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 06:00
Israeli strikes on 28 August, which killed a dozen Houthi ministers in southern Sana'a, brought secret negotiations initiated by Omani state telecoms company Omantel with the Yemeni rebel group to a screeching halt, Intelligence Online has learned.In addition to Prime Minister Ahmed Nasser al-Rahawi, [...]
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France/Thailand/United States : Oliver Wyman works for French culture ministry, Richard Dailly leaves Compliancia, Mike Waltz's NSA team defends Hanwha

Intelligence Online - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 06:00
Paris - Oliver Wyman works on Saudi Arabia for French culture ministryThe French ministry of culture last year paid €372,900 [...]
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France : French finance ministry's latest move to bring its spies under one roof

Intelligence Online - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 06:00
The French finance ministry's plan to bring together all of its investigation and intelligence services under one roof in a [...]
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China/Taiwan : Cheng Li-wun, the Kuomintang's bid to reassure Beijing

Intelligence Online - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 06:00
Last week's appointment of lawyer Cheng Li-wun to head Taiwan's Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), or KMT, was largely due to [...]
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France/Ukraine : Alta Ares begins mass production of interceptor drones in France

Intelligence Online - Wed, 29/10/2025 - 06:00
Starting 30 October, Alta Ares will begin mass production of the X-Wing Interceptor, one of two interceptor drones at a [...]
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China’s Mysterious Aircraft at Gaobeidian Possibly Linked to ‘High-Supersonic’ Crew Escape Paper

The Aviationist Blog - Tue, 28/10/2025 - 22:41
A Chinese research paper on an ejectable cockpit for high-supersonic flight has drawn attention after a mysterious blended-wing test object appeared at the Gaobeidian radar range. Experts have linked a Chinese scientific academic paper about a crew escape module for a “high supersonic aircraft” to an unidentified flying dart-type aircraft that appeared at China’s RCS […]
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