| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Royal Air Force Receives First P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft
The RAF’s new submarine-hunting Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) has touched down for the first time in the UK. The aircraft is the first of a new £3 billion programme, including the purchas... US Deploys 'Low-Yield' Nuclear Weapon in Response to Russian Tests
The Pentagon says it is deploying long-range missiles armed with low-yield nuclear warheads of reduced destructive power in response to Russia testing similar weapons. A U.S. Defense Department sta... US Special Ops Command to Buy 75 Light Attack Aircraft
US Special Operations Command is moving forward with its armed overwatch plan, independent of the Air Force’s light attack experiment, inviting industry for a briefing on a proposal to buy an estimate... Qatar Continues to Build Up Naval Capabilities
Qatar may become the first Arab Gulf state to operate submarines. A new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Italian defense giant Fincantieri covers the “supply of cutting-edge naval vessels and su... Eurofighter Plots Capability Road Map Beyond Centurion
Luke Gili-Ross has lived and breathed Project Centurion. When the project started, he was serving on 41 Squadron, the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon Test and Evaluation unit, but following retirement Luke ... Australia Selects Rafael Spike LR2 Anti-Tank Missile
The Australian Army and the wider Australian Defence Force (ADF) will acquire the Rafael Spike LR2 missile system as its Long-Range Direct Fire Support Weapon capability, under the Lethality System pr... EF-18G Growler Controls Two Other Unmanned Growlers in Test
ARLINGTON, Va. --- Boeing and the U.S. Navy successfully flew two autonomously controlled EA-18G Growlers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River as unmanned air systems using a third Growler as a mission... Kuwait Prepares to Introduce Eurofighter As Delivery Due in September
Final assembly of the first batch of Eurofighter Typhoons for Kuwait was formally launched in a ceremony at Turin-Caselle on October 15. The Italian final assembly line was bedecked with Kuwaiti and I... Safran Ready to Partner India, Transfer Jet Engine Technology
NEW DELHI --- Leading French engine manufacturer Safran has said that it is ready to transfer the full technology for jet engines that can power next generation fighter jets and has initiated talks on... US Stands By the Chemical Weapons Convention
While the Trump Administration has retreated from negotiated arms control agreements in many areas ranging from nuclear weapons to anti-personnel landmines, the US is still committed to the Chemical W... India’s $66.9Bn Defence Budget Cannot Fund Commitments
Presenting her second and Narendra Modi Government’s seventh regular budget on February 1, 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earmarked Rs. 4,71,378 crore (US$ 66.9 billion1) for the Ministry o... NSPA Supports Largest Deployment of US Forces to Europe in 25 Years
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) will provide temporary camp equipment and services for troops during Exercise Defender-Europe 2020. NSPA will deliver four camps with a capacity for circ... Pentagon Plans Vast Space Sensor Layer to Defeat Hypersonic Weapons
The Trump Administration is pursuing a series of secret military space projects that collectively will cost tens of billions of dollars. At least one of those projects is too big to hide: a Space Sens... Lockheed Delivers First Upgraded HC-130J to US Coast Guard
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. --- Lockheed Martin representatives joined U.S. Coast Guard leaders and crew members for a ceremony on Jan. 31 at the Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City, Nort... Hungarian Cabinet Adopts New National Security Strategy
“The National Security Cabinet has adopted the new National Security Strategy”, Minister of Defence Tibor Benkő announced at his annual year evaluation and task-setting leadership meeting in Budapest ... IAI Teams with HAL and DTL to Market UAVs to India
LUCKNOW, India –-- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) today signed a strategic collaboration MOU (memorandum of understanding) with a focus on UAVs with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and ... Elbit Selected by UK Coast Guard for Maritime UAV Trials
LONDON, UK --- Elbit Systems UK has been selected by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) to conduct maritime demonstration flights in the UK using a number of its unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in... Transatlantic Defence in the Trump Era
For 70 years, NATO allies in Europe and North America have stood together to defend their territorial integrity and uphold a broad set of shared interests and values against common security threats. Y... IAI and BEL to Establish New Air Defense Maintenance Center in India
LUCKNOW, India --- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have entered a Memorandum of Understating (MOU) for collaboration on establishing a new c... Cobham and GA-ASI Team to Market UAVs in Australia
The following press release was issued by Cobham Services Australia on February 3, 2020. It announced a five-year extension to the Teaming Agreement between GA-ASI and Cobham to introduce Medium A... Kongsberg Sells Hydroid, Teams for US Navy Future Work
Kongsberg Maritime AS has signed an agreement to sell its underwater technology company Hydroid, Inc. for USD 350 million to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the largest supplier of vessels to the... Indian MoD: DefExpo 2020 Reflects India’s Growing Stature
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has said that the huge participation of foreign countries and exhibitors in the DefExpo 2020, to be held at Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow from February 5-9, 2020, refl... Naval Group Exhibits at DefExpo 2020
LUCKNOW, India --- From 05th to 09th February 2020, Naval Group will participate to the eleventh edition of DEFEXPO, the land, naval & internal homeland security systems exhibition of India. Naval... | 
