Defence`s Feeds

The Taliban seized a district in southern Afghanistan Friday without facing any resistance from Afghan government security forces, bringing to seven the number of districts the insurgents have overrun since the United States and its NATO allies began withdrawing their troops from the country a month ago.

As part of our commitment to the people of Afghanistan, the United States is providing more than $266 million in new humanitarian assistance, bringing total U.S. humanitarian aid for Afghanistan to nearly $3.9 billion since 2002.

The United States has announced more than $266 million in new humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan as U.S. troops exit the war-torn country.

The 4th China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers' Dialogue, hosted by Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, was held in Guiyang on Thursday.

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The Navy will christen its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Canberra (LCS 30), during a 12 p.m. CDT ceremony Saturday, June 5 in Mobile, Ala.

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The Joint All-Domain Command and Control's strategy goal is to link networks and sensors to warfighters with shared data in all domains — cyber, land, sea, air and space — across all of the military services and combatant commands in a secure manner and at great speed.

At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield (ASD/FS), the largest live-fire Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) exercise in 2021 led by U.S. Sixth Fleet and conducted by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), concluded June 2, 2021.

Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC 75) was returned to Assault Craft Unit FIVE at Camp Pendleton on May 25 after delivering 17 days early from a Post Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) Extension (PSE) availability.

Multiple submarines departed Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate in Exercise Agile Dagger 2021 (AD21), June 3.

Commander, U.S. Second Fleet (C2F) and Joint Force Command Norfolk (JFCNF) communications staff broke barriers between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and partners and U.S. Naval forces by establishing a system agnostic approach that allowed users to communicate in a common virtual environment during Exercise Steadfast Defender 21 (STDE 21).

Vice Adm. Bill Merz, commander of U.S. 7th Fleet, visited the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), June 2.

Vice Adm. Bill Merz, commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, visited the Navy's only forward-deployed amphibious assault ship, USS America (LHA 6), at sea, June 2.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) fired a Standard Missile – 2 (SM-2) at a subsonic sea skimming target during a Live Fire With a Purpose exercise (LFWAP), June 1, 2021, proving the ship is capable of air defense in a maritime environment.

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U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with Chief of the French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier June 4, in Toulon, France, to discuss ways to advance high-end interoperability between both navies as well their recently released naval strategies (CNO's Navigation Plan and Adm. Vandier's Mercator: Acceleration 2021).

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previewed the 14 June NATO Summit in an online keynote address on Friday (4 June 2021), co-hosted by NATO, the German Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution. Describing a world of growing global competition, he explained that "through NATO 2030, we are adapting to a more competitive world," adding that "ambitions must be high, as the challenges to

The crew of HMAS Ballarat has successfully conducted training with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship Murasame during the Regional Presence Deployment.

HMAS Ballarat's crew felt the full force of eight United States Navy EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft when they flew overhead during the ship's Regional Presence Deployment last month.