The Royal Australian Navy has finally commissioned the first Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel – more than three years behind schedule – highlighting the programme’s delays, design compromises and ongoing industrial restructuring.
The UAE’s Edge Group has been positioning itself as a key defence and technology partner to Indonesia, where it has been focusing on naval platforms, UAVs and long-term industrial collaboration.
The UK’s National Security Strategy brings together the recently released Strategic Defence Review (SDR), Strategic Security Review, AUKUS Review and Industrial and Trade Strategies. At the same time, the UK made a commitment to reach defence spending of 5% of GDP by 2035 and Germany committed to 3.5% by 2029.
In the operation Midnight Hammer, the Pentagon deployed 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators and more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles.
While the Paris Air Show marked the first time the ANAFI UKR has been publicly shown, the ISR drone has been in use with various armed forces for the last eight months, Parrot told Shephard.
A pact signed at the Paris Air Show has seen Sweden turn to the French FDI frigate to lead its next-gen surface combatant fleet amid shifting security dynamics in the Baltic Sea.
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29th April 2021
SEA awarded a £25 million contract for sonar upgrade and development by the UK MoD
29th April 2021
The Alexandrit-class mine countermeasures vessel Pyotr Ilyichev was launched on 28 April.
29th April 2021
Rolls-Royce will repair the power section, torque meter, gearbox and accessories on US E-2 Hawkeye aircraft.
28th April 2021
Rolls-Royce has reached an agreement with Fincantieri Marinette Marine to produce fixed-pitch propellers for the US Navy’s Constellation-class frigates.
28th April 2021
Thales has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin to supply airborne anti-submarine warfare sonars for the MH-60R helicopter.
28th April 2021
Production of an unmanned Ulaq ASW vessel is due to begin later in 2021, by when the baseline unmanned surface vessel will be in service with the Turkish Navy.
28th April 2021
The AGM-88 missile is one of several features in an FMS modification for Lockheed Martin to assist the Peace Phoenix Rising 2 programme for Taiwan.
28th April 2021
Almost half of the 50 F-35s ordered by Israel have been delivered.
28th April 2021
The Canadian government is allocating funding for the next five years to overhaul NORAD amid new-generation threats such as low-flying cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons.
28th April 2021
Silicon Sensing’s new DMU41 – the highest performing silicon MEMS IMU available today is also more than 40% smaller and lighter, with 50% lower power consumption.
27th April 2021
Malaysia's navy receives new domestically built high-speed boats, with the promise of more on the way.
27th April 2021
KMW, WFEL and RENK announce a contract to jointly produce gearboxes and control units for the UK Boxer MIV programme.
27th April 2021
General Dynamics Land Systems UK has revealed the new Ajax-Brimstone Overwatch variant armoured vehicle and its capabilities.
27th April 2021
Shipbuilder Babcock expects to cut the first steel on the first Type 31 frigate by late 2021.
27th April 2021
Loitering munition system to be installed on maritime platforms used by US special forces.
27th April 2021
Belgium continues to use the SeeTrack mission planning, monitoring and post-mission analysis tool on its autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) fleet.
27th April 2021
US State Department gives the green light to a $1.65 billion FMS package.
27th April 2021
The special naval relationship between the UK and US could be jeopardised if the former focuses too much on the Indo-Pacific region by drawing resources away from the strategically important Arabian Gulf.
27th April 2021
The Chinese naval fleet grows by at least 60,000t in a single day as three new ships enter service.
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