DefenceTalkSudan said Sunday it will begin this week a joint air force drill with Saudi Arabia, the first such manoeuvres since Khartoum allied with Riyadh after breaking ties with Tehran in 2015. The exercises will be held from March 29 until April 12 in Meroe, north of Khartoum, and will involve hundreds of air force […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sudan-saudi-to-hold-first-joint-air-force-drill-69607/

DefenceTalkWorldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War in the last five years, driven by a demand from the Middle East and Asia, a study said Monday. Between 2012-2016, arms imports in terms of volume by countries in Asia and Oceania accounted for 43 percent of global imports, a 7.7 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/global-arms-trade-highest-since-cold-war-study-69184/

DefenceTalkThe White House has blocked the transfer of precision munitions to ally Saudi Arabia, amid anger about the civilian death toll from the kingdom’s bombing campaign in Yemen. “We have made clear that US security cooperation is not a blank check,” a senior administration official told AFP, echoing long-standing concerns about how Riyadh is prosecuting […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-cancels-weapons-transfers-to-saudi-over-yemen-campaign-68676/

DefenceTalkAn arms watchdog on Monday urged major weapons exporters, including the United States and France, to cut sales to Saudi Arabia over its actions in Yemen, as a conference on global arms trade opened in Geneva. The World Trade Organization is hosting the second conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which came into force […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cut-weapons-sales-to-saudi-over-yemen-arms-watchdog-says-68034/

DefenceTalkThe United States has approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of up to 153 tanks, hundreds of machine guns and other military gear in a deal worth $1.15 billion, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The announcement coincided with news that Saudi-led coalition warplanes had resumed air strikes on Yemen’s capital for the first time in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-approves-1-15-bn-tank-weapons-sale-to-saudi-67972/

DefenceTalkA leading U.S.-based foreign policy journal says the White House has quietly suspended the transfer of cluster bombs to ally Saudi Arabia, in response to the Sunni kingdom’s aerial war against Shi’ite rebels in Yemen. Foreign Policy magazine, in a news story published Friday, quoted an unnamed senior U.S. official as saying a hold was […]https://www.defencetalk.com/report-white-house-suspends-cluster-bomb-transfers-to-saudi-arabia-67548/

DefenceTalkCanada’s Liberal government refused to back down Wednesday in the face of growing criticism for having greenlit arms sales to Saudi Arabia that could help it wage war in Yemen. A previous Conservative administration announced the $12 billion sale of light armored vehicles in February 2014. However, the Conservatives are now raising alarms over the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/canada-under-fire-over-saudi-arms-sale-67246/

DefenceTalkPakistan Air Force (PAF) JF-17 Thunder presented a scintillating aerial display at the culmination of North Thunder Military Exercise held at King Khalid Military City in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today. King Salman bin Abdul Aziz along with Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and General Raheel Sharif, Chief of the Army Staff witnessed […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-jf-17-thunders-maiden-aerial-display-in-saudi-arabia-67055/

DefenceTalkArmed forces from 20 countries have begun manoeuvres in northeastern Saudi Arabia that the official Saudi Press Agency described as one of the world’s biggest military exercises. Troops from Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Sudan are among those participating in the “Thunder of the North” exercise, which began on Saturday and involves ground, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/thunder-of-the-north-military-exercise-begins-in-saudi-66884/

DefenceTalkThe volume of international transfers of major weapons has grown continuously since 2004 and rose by 14 per cent between 2006–10 and 2011–15, according to new data on international arms transfers published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Six of the top 10 largest arms importers in the 5-year period 2011–15 are […]https://www.defencetalk.com/asia-middle-east-arms-imports-us-russia-largest-arms-exporters-66831/