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13 September 2021

UK Defence Budget: Still a balancing act

On the opening day of DSEI 2021, taking place at London’s ExCeL centre, Ana Popescu, lead analyst fo...

08 September 2021

Two Royal Navy OPVs begin five-year deployment to Indo-Pacific region

The UK Royal Navy (RN) announced on 7 September that two of its River-class Batch II offshore patrol...

Air news

16 September 2021

South Korea aims to launch indigenous solid-propellant space-launch vehicle by 2023

South Korea plans to develop and start operating a new space launch vehicle by 2024 from its Naro Sp...

16 September 2021

DSEI 2021: BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics unveil T-650 all-electric UAS

BAE Systems unveiled the T-650 all-electric heavy lift unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at the 2021 DS...

16 September 2021

Hanwha Systems, LIG Nex1 secure contacts for South Korea's ANASIS-II

Hanwha Systems and LIG Nex1 announced on 15 September that they have secured contracts from South Ko...

C4ISR news

15 September 2021

DSEI 2021: Ireland adopts SitaWare C2 software for ISTAR aircraft

Command-and-control (C2) software house Systematic has announced Defence Forces Ireland has installe...

15 September 2021

DSEI 2021: Italy joins Eurofighter ‘Radar 2' programme

Italy has joined the United Kingdom in developing the ‘Radar 2' active electronically scanned array ...

01 September 2021

US Army ARES ISR aircraft makes maiden flight

The US Army's Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES) aircraft made its maiden ...

Industry news

15 September 2021

BrahMos Aerospace to invest in industrial corridor

BrahMos Aerospace is to set up a missile manufacturing base in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, ...

15 September 2021

DSEI 2021: Hanwha Defense announces Team Thunder for UK K9 bid

South Korea's Hanwha Defense announced the launching of Team Thunder at the DSEI trade show on 14 Se...

14 September 2021

Elbit Systems to supply ASW capabilities to navy of Asia-Pacific country

Israeli company Elbit Systems announced on 13 September that it has secured contracts worth a combin...

Land news

16 September 2021

DSEI 2021: RBSL and Rheinmetall unveil Boxer mortar module

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) and Rheinmetall have unveiled a mortar-carrying mission module f...

15 September 2021

DSEI 2021: Polaris debuts the MRZR Alpha tactical vehicle

The MRZR Alpha ultralight tactical vehicle from US mobility provider Polaris Government and Defense ...

15 September 2021

DSEI 2021: Rheinmetall experiments with quadripedal UGVs

Rheinmetall presented a quadripedal unmanned ground vehicle (Q-UGV) that it is experimenting with at...

Sea news

16 September 2021

Wellington to ban entry of Australia's future submarines into New Zealand waters

Australia's future nuclear-powered submarines will not be allowed to enter New Zealand waters.

15 September 2021

South Korea conducts first SLBM test launch from in-service submarine

South Korea has test-launched a locally developed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a...

14 September 2021

DroneShield takes aim at emerging C-UUV and diver detection requirements with SonarOne

DroneShield's new SonarOne underwater threat detection system is designed to provide an easily opera...

Security news

13 September 2021

US Air Force chief supports tying F-35 buy to O&S cost constraints

The US Air Force's (USAF's) top officer supports proposed legislation that would limit the total qua...

08 September 2021

20 years after 9/11: The evolving transnational militant Islamist threat landscape

Two decades have now passed since Al-Qaeda militants targeted the United States on 11 September 2001...

08 September 2021

Taliban announce interim government in Afghanistan

More than three weeks after taking control of Kabul, the Taliban announced on 7 September the format...

Weapons news

16 September 2021

DSEI 2021: TDW's PARM 1 seeks comeback

TDW GmbH, a subsidiary of MBDA Germany, publicly displayed its Automated Anti-Tank Weapon (PARM) for...

15 September 2021

South Korea testing several new missiles amid tensions with Pyongyang

South Korea's Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced on 15 September that its Agency for Defen...

16 September 2021

MDA demonstrates selectable stage booster for GBI

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in association with Boeing and Raytheon Technologies, on 12 Sep...
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