Escort Force News Today

well bring you updates as soon as they come in. we have someone on the ground there and were getting information. plus we have breaking news out of baghdad. a u.s. air strike targeting the headquarters of an iran-backed militia killing a high ranking commander. iranian proxies are targeting troops for months. more on the developing story. lets get you to this first. >> 312 suspects on the terrorist watch list that have been apprehended. we have no idea how many terrorists have come int...

Has been expanded. shutting down the suez canall with only half of the shipping getting through because of the houthis conducting attacks and disrupting commercial shipping which required a multi-national escort force to do that. that seems like a pretty significant expansion of the war. i think we have to face the facts on the ground is what they really are. our timidity and reluctance to be aggressive in confronting them, i think, is leading to more aggression on their part. this is common sen...

Last month, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force commissioned JS Kumano, the first of its new Mogami-class multi-role frigates. The warship was built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries facility in Tamano and is the first of a planned class of 22 ships that are destined to replace the fleet’s aging Abukuma-class destroyer escorts and Asagiri-class light destroyers. […]

Amid a strong push by Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for Make in India in defence, the Defence Ministry has formed a committee under a three star-rank officer to decide on the curtailed deal for buying predator drones from the US.

Two projects in Japan’s rising defense budget questioned By Guo Dan The Japanese government approved on December 21 the draft budget for the 2021 fiscal year, including a record defense budget that has been rising for the 9th consecutive year to 5.34 trillionyen (51.6 billion USD). The most conspicuous part of the defense budget is the cruise missile improvement plan and the construction of two ships equipped with Aegis missile interceptor systems as an alternative to the land-based Aegis As...