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14 April 2021

Manila increases number of assets patrolling West Philippine Sea amid continued presence of Chinese vessels

The Philippines has increased the number of maritime assets deployed to areas it claims in the dispu...

14 April 2021

US set to withdraw remaining troops from Afghanistan before 11 September

US President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan before 11 Se...

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14 April 2021

Naval Group-Airbus Helicopters expands VSR700 flight envelope ahead of sea demo

Naval Group-Airbus Helicopters has expanded the flight envelope of the VSR700 unmanned helicopter de...

14 April 2021

Bell begins AH-1Z build for Bahrain

Bell has begun assembly of the first of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters for Bahrain ahead of the c...

14 April 2021

RotorX demonstrates Palledrone heavy-lift UAV at US Army AEWE

RotorX has developed a fully autonomous heavy-lift unmanned hexacopter called the Palledrone that pa...

C4ISR news

13 April 2021

US Air Force seeks EO/IR sensor options for MQ-9

US Air Force Material Command’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) directorate is ...

13 April 2021

Lockheed Martin contracts L3Harris for Viper Shield F-16V Block 70/72 electronic warfare system

Lockheed Martin in February sole-sourced L3Harris a cost-plus development contract to put its new AN...

12 April 2021

US Navy starts RFCM pod trials from P-8A Poseidon

The US Navy (USN) has begun flight testing a new pod-mounted radio frequency countermeasure (RFCM) p...

Industry news

14 April 2021

Naval Group-Airbus Helicopters expands VSR700 flight envelope ahead of sea demo

Naval Group-Airbus Helicopters has expanded the flight envelope of the VSR700 unmanned helicopter de...

14 April 2021

Bell begins AH-1Z build for Bahrain

Bell has begun assembly of the first of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters for Bahrain ahead of the c...

14 April 2021

IAI, Thales team up to offer Sea Serpent anti-ship missile for UK I-SSGW requirement

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has teamed up with UK-based Thales to offer the Sea Serpent guided...

Land news

14 April 2021

IAI, Thales team up to offer Sea Serpent anti-ship missile for UK I-SSGW requirement

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has teamed up with UK-based Thales to offer the Sea Serpent guided...

13 April 2021

Barak ER development finalised and in production

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has finalised development, and is in production of, the

12 April 2021

Update: US Air Force completes XQ-58A Valkyrie's first payload release test

The US Air Force (USAF) on 26 March completed the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie’s first release from its in...

Sea news

13 April 2021

Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC Corporation launches first locally built LPD for RoCN

Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC Corporation has launched the first of a planned class of four landing pla...

12 April 2021

South Korea monitoring Pyongyang's moves amid signs of activity at Sinpo shipyard

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) revealed on 12 April that they are closely monitoring the ...

12 April 2021

Dive Technologies pushes 3D printing for AUV manufacturing

Massachusetts-based startup Dive Technologies is looking to leverage additive manufacturing (AM) tec...

Security news

14 April 2021

UNAMA reports 29% rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan in first quarter of 2021

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by 29% in the first three months of this year compared to th...

08 April 2021

Wings over Mandalay: Myanmar's junta deploy Chinese-made CH-3A tactical UAVs to observe protest movements

Kelvin Wong, unmanned systems editor has confirmed the use of the Chinese-made CH-3A tactical UAV in...

30 March 2021

Analysis: The South Sudanese armed forces' struggle for unity

Reports from the UN Secretary General to the UN Security Council and the EU’s High Representative to...

Weapons news

14 April 2021

IAI, Thales team up to offer Sea Serpent anti-ship missile for UK I-SSGW requirement

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has teamed up with UK-based Thales to offer the Sea Serpent guided...

13 April 2021

Barak ER development finalised and in production

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has finalised development, and is in production of, the

12 April 2021

Update: US Air Force completes XQ-58A Valkyrie's first payload release test

The US Air Force (USAF) on 26 March completed the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie’s first release from its in...
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