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France, UK Award Joint €600M Order for Unmanned Naval Minehunting System
On November 16, 2020, the Joint Organization for Cooperation in Armament (OCCAr) awarded Thales, on behalf of the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA), a contract for the acquisition of the first t

Russia Begins Marketing Its ‘Stealth-Busting’ Prima Truck-Mounted Radar
Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has started promoting the P-18-2 Prima high-mobility 2D surveillance and acquisition radar, developed and manufactured by PJSC NITEL and PJSC NPO

Second Firing Qualifies Anglo-French Sea Venom Anti-Ship Missile
The second qualification firing of the ANL / Sean Venom missile was carried out successfully on November 17, 2020 by teams from the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) and the MBDA company on beha

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France, UK Award Joint €600M Order for Unmanned Naval Minehunting System
On November 16, 2020, the Joint Organization for Cooperation in Armament (OCCAr) awarded Thales, on behalf of the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA), a contract for the acquisition of the first t...

Second Firing Qualifies Anglo-French Sea Venom Anti-Ship Missile
The second qualification firing of the ANL / Sean Venom missile was carried out successfully on November 17, 2020 by teams from the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) and the MBDA company on beha...

Russia Begins Marketing Its ‘Stealth-Busting’ Prima Truck-Mounted Radar
Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has started promoting the P-18-2 Prima high-mobility 2D surveillance and acquisition radar, developed and manufactured by PJSC NITEL and PJSC NPO...

Pentagon Sees Increasing Quality Control Problems at Boeing
Boeing Co. has been cited by the Pentagon’s contracts management agency for an increase in incidents of damage to military aircraft or components at three of its facilities. The citation from Army ...

Observers Dismayed as US Considers Troop Pull-Out from Somalia
NAIROBI --- No other country has been involved in Somalia's future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from t...

Chinese Military Urged to Modernize Theories, Organization, Weapons
The Chinese military was urged to modernize military theories, organizations, personnel and weapons and equipment in order to reach its centennial goal by 2027 recently set by the Communist Party of C...

Bundestag Approves €780M for Military Support Vehicles
The Bundeswehr will receive protected and unprotected transport vehicles and tractor units for more than 780 million euros. The budget committee of the German Bundestag has approved the project. We...

Industry Comments Bundeswehr Order for 31 NH90 Shipborne Helicopters
DONAUWÖRTH, Germany --- The German Bundeswehr has ordered 31 NH90 NFH helicopters, to be known as Sea Tiger, for the German Navy’s shipborne operations. Nathalie Tarnaud-Laude, President of NH90 H...

Russian Frigate Gorshkov Fires Zircon Missile in White Sea
The frigate Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet Gorshkov performed another firing of the Circon hypersonic cruise missile from the White Sea at a complex target position located in the Barents Sea. M...

Options for Royal Navy Carrier Deployment
This Occasional Paper examines how the Royal Navy can leverage the potential of its Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers in the context of a strategic environment characterised by persistent compet...

New Ka-52 Attack Helicopters Delivered to Russian Army
Arsenyev Aviation Company "Progress" named after N.I. Sazykina of the Russian Helicopters holding handed over to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation all the Ka-52 Alligator combat reconn...

Bell-Boeing Joint Venture Wins $188M for V-22 Logistic Support
The Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, California, Maryland, has been awarded a maximum $188,572,655 modification (P00010) exercising the second one-year option period of a one-year base contract (SPRP...

Russian Army Received 18,000 Ratnik Soldier Equipment Sets in 2020
The Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering, which is part of Rostec, fulfilled its obligations under the 2020 state defense order for the supply of Ratnik (English: warrior) equipment for...

Rheinmetall, Czechoslovak Group Team for Military Vehicle Production
Rheinmetall and Czechoslovak Group a.s. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the field of tactical military vehicles. The signing took place at Hradčany Castle in the presence of the President...

Russian Corvette Boykiy to Fire Uranus Missile in Atlantic Drills
As part of the planned combat training missions in the Baltic Fleet's area of responsibility, the Boykiy corvette completed missions in the English Channel and entered the Atlantic Ocean. In the no...

Australia Launches Defence Transformation Strategy
The Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC has today launched a new framework to evolve Defence’s strategic purpose, performance and accountability. Lead the Way: Defence Transfor...

Russia to Develop Military Equipment Modeling Platform: Report
SAROV, Russia --- Russian scientists will create a single platform for simulating military equipment, military products and technical systems, Vyacheslav Solovyev, head of the Institute of Theoretical...

Elbit to Supply Software-Defined Radio to Spanish Army
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd. (Elbit Systems) announced today that it was awarded a contract to supply the E-LynX Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution for the combat battalion level of the Spa...

Switzerland Signs Agreement with NATO Communications Agency
BERN --- On November 25, 2020, Swiss Ambassador to Belgium Philippe Brandt signed an agreement with NATO's Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency). With this agreement, Switzerland strength...

Private Company Takes Over Training of German P-3 Orion Aircrew
STARKE, Fla. --- ESG Aerosystems, Inc. and MHD-Rockland Inc. announce that ESG Aerosystems has been awarded a U.S Navy Contract valued at $64.5 million, and MHD-Rockland will act as the sole-source ai...

Canada to Build C$144M Defense Research Facility
OTTAWA --- The Government of Canada is investing in defence infrastructure to provide our scientists with the modern, functional, and green facilities they need to continue cutting-edge defence resear...

BAE Unveils Canadian Frigate Visualization Suite in Ottawa
BAE Systems was proud to open the first Visualization Suite for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) officially on 26 November at its offices in Ottawa. BAE Systems were honoured to mark the occasi...

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