Defence Security Asia

Pakistan’s closure of a 450km-wide Arabian Sea zone for a suspected missile test has prompted India to deploy INS Dhruv, its highly specialised missile-tracking vessel, creating a dangerous…

Pakistan’s deployment of combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia has activated a new mutual defence pact for the first time, placing Pakistani military assets beside critical Saudi oil…

Indonesia may be preparing to grant the United States unprecedented blanket military overflight rights, giving Washington faster access across the Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, Malacca…

A US Navy MQ-4C Triton worth more than US$200 million (RM760 million) abruptly turned toward Iran, transmitted an emergency squawk and disappeared over the Strait of Hormuz, triggering…

Iran’s accusation that UAE Mirage-2000-9 fighter aircraft attacked the strategic Lavan Island refinery has transformed a limited refinery strike into a potentially regional crisis,…

China has sent one of its most powerful naval task groups into the Sea of Japan in what appears to be a direct strategic signal after Tokyo deployed new long-range missiles capable of…

Malaysia has taken a major step in modernising its air power after the Royal Malaysian Air Force successfully conducted the maiden flight of the ANKA-THS unmanned aerial system at Labuan Air…

Iranian air defences claimed to have destroyed a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper above Shiraz, but mounting OSINT evidence suggests the wreckage belongs to a Saudi or UAE-operated Wing Loong II. If…

China has issued its strongest warning yet over Japan’s enormous plutonium stockpile, claiming Tokyo possesses enough separated plutonium to build approximately 5,500 nuclear warheads if it…

Iran’s IRGC has declared 18 American and Gulf technology companies—including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Boeing and Tesla—“legitimate military objectives,” warning that offices, data…