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Iran rolls out ballistic missiles
A blue 'Khalij Fars' anti-ship ballistic missile is seen in front of a green Fateh-110 in a photograph from the 5 March ceremony. The black cap on the nose of the blue missile makes it impossible Source: Iranian MoDUSN ship heads to Black Sea for pre-planned engagements with Bulgaria, Romania
Guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) departs the Marathi NATO pier facility on 6 March 2014 following a scheduled visit to Crete. Truxtun is heading for the Black Sea to conduct pre-planned training and theatre security co-operation activities with Romanian and Bulgarian naval forces. Source: US NavyPentagon budget 2015: US Navy funds EM railgun demonstration plus laser weapon development
The USN's JHSV USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) departs Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story on 16 January 2014 for its first deployment in support of operations in the Mediterranean. The navy is funding an at-sea demonstration of the EM railgun on board a JHSV in 2016. Source: US NavyUSAF increases support for Poland and Baltic states
The USAF is to send a further six F-15C fighters and a KC-135 tanker to Lithuania to bolster the four F-15Cs it already has there. In addition, the DoD is looking at expanding the USAF's AVDET detachment in Poland as a response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Source: US Air Force
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Damen Schelde reveals design of new Vietnamese Sigma-class corvettes
Netherlands-based shipyard Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) revealed the latest iteration of the SIGMA 9814 corvette being acquired by the Vietnam People's Navy (VPN) during the Vietship 2014 exhibition in Hanoi. The model displayed by DSNS has evolved from a previous design iteration in a
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MENA country orders more Skyguard fire units
Rheinmetall Defence announced on 4 March that it had signed a EUR83 million (USD114 million) contract with an unidentified country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for an unspecified number of Skyguard fire units. A fire unit for the short-range air defence system typically
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Pentagon budget 2015: Only some brigades to fully train as army budget shrinks
Key Points US Forces Korea, the Global Response Force, and a new Army Contingency Force will get full brigade-level training The US Army will begin generating units with varying degrees of 'readiness' - the military's term for how well prepared the force is for full-scale warfare - as the service
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UK's Army 2020 plan 'unconvincing', says HCDC
Key Points The HCDC has said the British Army's Army 2020 plan "does not present a convincing blueprint" for safeguarding the UK's national security The committee claims army chiefs were simply told to cut troop levels to 82,000 to save money An influential UK parliamentary committee
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Algeria orders Mi-28 and Mi-26 helicopters
Algeria has ordered 42 Mi-28N attack helicopters and six Mi-26T2 heavy transport helicopters for its air force, ARMS-TASS reported on 28 February. Citing an unidentified representative of Russia's military-industrial complex, the Russian military news agency added that the USD2.7 billion contract
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Appointment of Nigerian defence minister indicates new strategy to combat Boko Haram but civilian massacres will continue
EVENT Former army general Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was named as Nigeria's new defence minister on 5 March by President Goodluck Jonathan. The president had been taking responsibility for the defence portfolio since June 2012 when he sacked Mohammed Bello following a wave of attacks by Boko Haram
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Following the upheaval in Ukraine, download an extract of our armed forces assessment looking at force structure, projection, readiness and other key militray capabilities.
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Pentagon budget 2015: US Navy funds EM railgun demonstration plus laser weapon development
The US Navy (USN) has preserved funds in its fiscal year 2015 (FY 2015) budget request to support a planned at-sea demonstration of the Electromagnetic (EM) railgun prototype in addition to continuing development of a solid-state laser (SSL) weapon. As part of a requested USD2 billion budget for
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Iran rolls out ballistic missiles
The Iranian Ministry of Defence (MoD) held a ceremony on 5 March to mark the delivery of Ghadr, Qiam, Fateh-120 and Khalij Fars ballistic missiles to operational units. The Iranian MoD released photographs showing 15 Ghadrs and 40 Qiams lined up in rows. The Ghadr is the latest variant of the
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Russians open cyber front in Crimea
Key Points Russia will use cyberspace operations at the strategic and tactical level in support of its military incursion into Ukraine Cyberspace operations will remain disruptive (as opposed to destructive) at the strategic level Russia's incursion into Ukraine's Crimea places a spotlight once
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Raytheon UK pursues GroundEye tactical C-IED capability
Raytheon UK is preparing to unveil what it believes to be the "world's first" handheld tactical improvised explosive device (IED) confirm/diagnose system for dismounted soldiers and small- to medium-sized unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The system, known as GroundEye, spins off existing
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Ukraine counts cost of Russian 'intervention'
Russia's intervention in Crimea - in effect a full-scale invasion and occupation of the peninsula - has been described by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague as "the biggest crisis in Europe this century." The Russian force is now estimated to number 25,000: a strength reached by Moscow
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USN ship heads to Black Sea for pre-planned engagements with Bulgaria, Romania
A US Navy (USN) destroyer supporting a carrier strike group in the Mediterranean is heading to the Black Sea for a series of pre-planned exercises and engagements with Romanian and Bulgarian naval forces, US Sixth Fleet officials announced on 6 March. The transit of Arleigh Burke-class
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Experts warn of 'Chernobyl' risk at Yongbyon nuclear plant
North Korea's decision to restart its 5 megawatt electric (MWe) reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear scientific research complex threatens Northeast Asia with a disaster potentially worse than Chernobyl, according to nuclear experts. "This reactor comes from another world. The Yongbyon site has a
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New jihadist front in Syria indicates increased risk of Sunni militant in-fighting spilling into Iraq
Key Points On 24 February 2014, a new group called Jabhat al-Murabiteen (Sentinels' Front) announced its formation in Iraq. The group's formation coincides with the statement by Syria-based Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra that it would take revenge against rival jihadist group Islamic State of
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Pentagon budget 2015: USAF seeks funds for JSTARS, T-X recap
Key Points The T-X combat trainer would receive USD600 million over five years, while a JSTARS replacement would get USD2.4 billion Those two efforts are among the few new programmes in the USAF's budget The US Air Force (USAF) has requested funding for a new combat trainer and battle management
