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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5th November 2020
GQM-163A Coyote helps navies to train against anti-ship cruise missiles
5th November 2020
Australia is looking into how to utilise directed-energy weapons and how to protect against such devices
4th November 2020
New OPVs will be joined by four logistics vessels, while upgrade work continues on four diesel-electric submarines
4th November 2020
Secure BLoS communications are on the horizon for future RN frigates
4th November 2020
FMS announcement follows recent delivery of more F-16s to Romania from Portugal
4th November 2020
Ten-year, multi-billion enterprise contract marks first rollout of COTS software in classified environment
4th November 2020
FMS package would mark first time that US applies revised UAS export control policy
4th November 2020
Link 22 allows exchange of tactical data with all sea surface, subsea, airborne, land and space platforms
4th November 2020
Congress mandates that USS John F. Kennedy must be capable of operating F-35Cs
3rd November 2020
Malaysia's third Littoral Mission Ship has been launched, with COVID-19 throwing a spanner in the works for the original delivery schedule
3rd November 2020
A small fleet of Bluebottle USVs is being readied for new tests in waters off Darwin
3rd November 2020
The Romanian Air Force now operates 16 second-hand F-16s, with one more to come
3rd November 2020
Waveform used by the F-35 is being upgraded to ensure compatibility with the emerging ABMS concept from the USAF
3rd November 2020
Despite political pressure, the UK MoD has declined to share a specific date for publication of the forthcoming Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.
3rd November 2020
Work begins in UK on installing radar on aircraft fuselages
3rd November 2020
Tests last month pave way for amphibious interoperability with the French Navy
3rd November 2020
Japan's foremost fighter aerospace company has been awarded a contract to develop the JASDF's new F-X fighter
3rd November 2020
Vessel to be commissioned in 2022; three others may follow
2nd November 2020
Multi-year deal covers US and FMS customers
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