| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases India Signs $950M Deal for Two Russian Frigates, May Build Two More Locally
Russia has inked a $950-million deal to supply two new warships to India that will be equipped with Brahmos missiles to add to the firepower of the Navy. The two frigates of the Project 11356 class wi... Canada Releases Draft RFP for New Fighter
On October 26, 2018, Canada achieved yet another milestone toward replacing Canada’s fighter fleet, with the release of the draft Request for Proposals to eligible Suppliers for their review and feedb... Russian Minister Warns of Serious Consequences for Europe If US Axes INF
The US decision to withdraw from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles will have serious consequences primarily for Europe, it needs extensive discussion withi... Chinese Spy Plane enters S. Korean Airspace
Once again, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft has set off alarms in South Korea by flying near Ieo Island, a submerged rock in the Yellow Sea that houses a South Korean research station. South Korean ... Boeing Admits Low-Balling to Win Contracts, Sees Long-Term Profits
Boeing Co. views the low-ball bids that helped it win contracts for a Navy drone and an Air Force training jet as spending money to make money. While the Chicago-based planemaker wrote down third-q... Military Spending Surge Spurs Defence Industry M&A
LONDON --- For more than two decades the US defence industry has been dominated by five “prime” contractors, companies with the technological and financial firepower to deliver key programmes for the ... Canada’s New Fighter Tender to Stress Offsets
OTTAWA --- Canada is facing a complex challenge as it gets ready to launch a full competition for new fighter jets stemming from its long-standing involvement in the international coalition that is bu... BAE Welcomes Type 26 Frigate Selection by Canada
Canada’s Combat Ship Team has been identified as the preferred bidder for the Canadian Surface Combatant design. Our team is proud of our proposed solution, and we look forward to working with the ... S. Africa’s Denel Running Out of Options
Denel is a national strategic asset of South Africa that has a critical role to play in ensuring that the South African National Defence Force is enabled in maintaining the sovereign defence capabilit... UK MoD Wins Additional £1 Bn in New Budget
The Ministry of Defence has been given £1 billion in additional funding in the Budget, the Chancellor has announced. Philip Hammond highlighted the need to boost the UK's cyber capabilities and ant... U.S. Navy Conducts SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test
KAUAI, Hawaii --- Sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG 113) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully conducted an intercept of a medium-range ballistic missile target with a Standard Missile-3 (... Russia Plans Missile-Firing Exercise Off Norway Amid NATO Drills
The Russian Navy plans to test missiles in international waters off Norway's coast this week, Norwegian and NATO officials say, as the Western military alliance conducts its largest military exercise ... Latvia Receives Stinger Air-Defence Systems
Latvia has received Stinger air-defence systems from Denmark in scope of the bilateral agreement signed between Latvian and Danish defence ministries last year. “Currently, we are at a historic sta... Floating Dock Sinks in Murmansk, Will Need Over Six Months to Recover
MOSCOW --- The operation to recover the sunken floating dock PD-50 in Murmansk will be rather tricky and may take six months to one year to accomplish, a source in the defense-industrial complex has t... Australia Preparing Supply Chain for F-35 Fighters
The F-35 is far more than just an aircraft. The supporting systems and infrastructure that underpin the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) are critical to sustaining the capability well into the future – and ... Russian Gromky Corvette Begins Builder’s Sea Trials
Today, in accordance with the approved schedule, the newest corvette Gromky, which soon will be commissioned by the Pacific Fleet (PF), has today left Vladivostok for plant trials. A set of control... Russia MoD to Receive 22 Engines for Upgraded Tu-160
Twenty-two NK-32 engines of the second series are scheduled for equipping updated Tu-160 bombers according to the contract with PJSC Kuznetsov (Samara). The Russian Defence Ministry will receive a ... Ireland to Survey P-51 Class OPVs for Life Extension
Independent marine and naval architecture consultancy, Tymor Marine, headquartered in Aberdeen, has been awarded a contract to deliver a vessel mid-life extension survey for the Irish Naval Service. ... US Army Tests DARPA Autonomous Flight System on Black Hawk
The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System provides flexible automation architecture for existing aircraft to increase mission effectiveness and enable safe, reduced crew operations. An S-76B... NATO Official Defines Role of Disarmament in Alliance Strategy
WASHINGTON --- NATO has been a bulwark of defense and deterrence in the world for almost 70 years, and disarmament is part of that equation, the NATO deputy secretary general said today at an alliance... An Opponent to the Use of Armed Drones Explains Rationale
Over the past two weeks, campaigners have been in New York taking part in meetings at the UN urging diplomats to control the proliferation and use of armed drones. Drone Wars UK was one of the more t... Israel Offers Peek Into Its ‘Frontal Landing Unit’
The Frontal Landing Unit is the IAF unit responsible for landing the air force's heavy transport aircraft outside of its airbases. Its main mission is defined as finding, authorizing and operating fro... POGO Looks at Trump’s Links to CEO of Mercenary Firm
Even though President Trump has increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan by as much as 90 percent since taking office, he is exasperated by the elusive nature of “victory” in America’s longest runni... US Marines Train with Norwegian Soldiers
SETERMOEN, Norway --- U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force–Europe 19.1 and Norwegian Army soldiers conducted close-air-support drills in during Exercise Northern Screen in Setermoen, Norway, Oct.... USAF Chiefs Look to Retain Pilots at Airlift Association Meeting
The 50th annual Airlift/Tanker Association Symposium brought top Air Force leadership to Grapevine, Texas, Oct. 25-27, to address issues of interest to the mobility force and the Air Force as a whole.... Airbus and Ursa to Continue Radar Satellite Data Partnership
TOULOUSE --- Airbus Defence and Space will continue to provide access to its radar satellite data to Ursa Space Systems (Ursa), a data fusion and analytics company. Both parties signed a new four-year... Swedish Corvettes Train in North Atlantic
The crews of the two Swedish corvettes, HMS Karlstad and HMS Nyköping, ended up in a tight spot in the cold North Atlantic when the Trident Juncture 18 exercise began. No matter where you look, shi... Western Australia Aims to Develop Its Defense Industry
The Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Steven Ciobo MP, has joined WA Senator and Assistant Minister for Home Affairs, Linda Reynolds, for a meeting of the Western Australian Defence Industry Coun... Poll of Poles Shows Support for Permanent Presence of US Troops
More than half of Poles support the efforts of the Polish government to establish a permanent base of US troops in our country and claim that the presence of bases will increase the level of security ... NATO Arms Control Meet Discusses WMD, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
A major NATO arms control conference got underway in Iceland on Monday (29 October 2018), as senior experts from more than 50 countries and organizations gathered to discuss the state of global arms c... US Navy Preparing SeaSparrow Launchers for Block 2 Missile
PORT HUENEME, Calif. --- Work has commenced on the refurbishment and modification of the NATO Seasparrow Missile System (NSSMS) platform and MK 132 Guided Missile Launching System located at Naval Sur... USAF Selects Northrop for USCYBERCOM Unified Platform
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md. --– The U.S. Air Force, acting as the acquisition authority, has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract valued at $54,626,116 to serve as Unified Platform systems coor... Norway, Netherlands Continue Strategic Cooperation On Research
October 29 -- it is three years since the defense ministers of Norway and The Netherlands signed an agreement on strategic military research cooperation. The cooperation has been successful and will c... US Army Develops Model to Predict Human Behavior
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army researchers have developed, for the first time, an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior. Technically speaking, this had nev... India MoD Holds Conference on Cyber Security
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in association with Cyber Peace Foundation and Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) organised a conference on Cyber Security – Challenge... Thai Air Force Reaches 10,000 Flight Hours on Gripen
During July and August, the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) participated in the multinational Pitch Black 2018 exercise in Darwin, Northern Australia. During the exercise, the 10,000th flight timetable in... | 