
Recent Houthi attacks on Saudi energy and military sites are testing the newly signed Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey.
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Saudi Arabia signed a regional mutual defence deal with Pakistan and Turkey a month prior.
Just a month after Saudi Arabia signed a regional mutual defence deal with Pakistan and Turkey, attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against the kingdom’s energy infrastructure and military sites are testing the pact’s limits.
At a hastily convened meeting of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Riyadh on Friday, military chiefs of the three parties reaffirmed their commitment to collective defence, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
The agency said the talks focused on “intelligence cooperation, military coordination, and capability integration to strengthen deterrence and collective defence”.
But there was no word on what military support Pakistan and Ankara would give Saudi Arabia.

Japan will deploy long-range "Type 25 land-based anti-ship missiles" for the first time in the "Sharp Sword" exercise with the United States in October, cooperating with the US military to share target information and confirm launch procedures, but will not conduct live ammunition firing. The move is aimed at strengthening Japan-US cooperation and responding to China's arms expansion.

Japan will hold a "Sharp Sword" exercise with the United States in October. It will deploy the domestically produced "Type 25 land-based anti-ship missile" with counterattack capabilities for the first time. Operation troops and launch vehicles will be deployed at the Oyanobara exercise ground in Kumamoto Prefecture, but live ammunition will not be launched. This move is intended to strengthen Japan-U.S. cooperation and target China.

The latest test flight video of China's new generation of tailless heavy-duty stealth fighter "J-36" has been exposed, revealing that it uses a two-dimensional thrust vector nozzle similar to the US F-22, a three-engine configuration and a light-colored radome, indicating that the aircraft is still in the continuous modification stage.

The U.S. Navy established the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center (RASWDC) in Virginia to integrate air, sea and underwater unmanned systems, formulate tactics, train sailors and feed back actual combat experience to procurement units to maintain maritime tactical superiority.

Taiwan has accelerated the production of more than 1,000 Hsiung Feng series missiles in the past five years, but the number actually launched in previous exercises has only been about 15 to 25. The military stated that this move was to prevent the Communist army from calculating life expectancy and save the defense budget, and to use a scientific re-examination mechanism to maintain combat readiness levels.

Former U.S. Rep. Gallagher wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal warning that Taiwan is the world's advanced semiconductor hub. If China launches a blockade or invasion, the U.S. AI industry will face a severe impact on research and development stagnation and supply chain disruption. The U.S. should incorporate Taiwan's defense into its semiconductor and AI strategy.