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.
Skyral enables government and industry to develop and adapt synthetic solutions more quickly, efficiently and reliably.
The combined, proven capabilities of Raytheon Missiles & Defense radars safeguard security.
10th November 2020
French exporters are likely to be unaffected by heated rhetoric from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while Turkish tests of its controversial S-400 system could still trigger US sanctions
10th November 2020
Twelve new ships to be equipped with Sea deFNder RWS
10th November 2020
Boeing and Raytheon to execute FMS contracts at Al-Udeid Air Base
10th November 2020
Engineering activities to be completed by January 2022
10th November 2020
The Philippine Air Force receives its first Black Hawks from Poland, but new Russian-built helicopters are on their way too
9th November 2020
FMS package will see Canadian Surface Combatant armed with Raytheon-made missile
9th November 2020
Consortium with University of Birmingham aims to deliver disruptive solutions
9th November 2020
Six-year deal is worth $140 million
9th November 2020
The process is led by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and is focused on integration and implementation of AI throughout the DoD, its associated agencies and the US armed forces.
9th November 2020
First Sa’ar 6 corvette leaves German shipyard
9th November 2020
First of six new nuclear attack submarines was handed over to the French Navy on 6 November
6th November 2020
The German budget committee has approved plans to buy 38 new Eurofighter Typhoons.
6th November 2020
Welcome to Episode 44 of the second series of The Weekly Defence Podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. Sign up to an early email alert …
6th November 2020
China is contentiously beefing up laws to increase the authority of its coast guard, the world's largest maritime law enforcement agency.
6th November 2020
The Indonesian Navy's second frigate is now combat ready with its full suite of weapons more than two years after it entered service.
5th November 2020
Pakistan is expected to gradually introduce a fleet of maritime patrol aircraft based on a Brazilian large business jet, while the air force awaits new JF-17 Block III fighters
5th November 2020
Award comes from FY2021 USN funds
5th November 2020
Modification follows $90.6 million contract awarded in October 2019
5th November 2020
The service plans to change its acquisition strategy to focus on procuring integrated systems, in order to be ready for the battlefield of the future.
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