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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...

03 September 2021

Crunch point approaching for EU goal of creating rapid entry force

Spurred in part by the debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the EU's top security policy offi...

Air news

10 September 2021

UK aspires to be ‘global leader' for MQ-9B

The United Kingdom aims to serve as a global leader for the latest variant of the MQ-9 medium-altitu...

09 September 2021

Thales, Scheibel complete S-100 UAS flight trials

Thales UK and Schiebel have undertaken first UK flight trials of a new shipborne multisensor unmanne...

09 September 2021

New Delhi approves acquisition of 56 C295 transport aircraft for IAF

India's Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved the procurement of 56 Airbus Defence and Space ...

C4ISR news

28 December 2020

Hanwha Systems secures contract for second batch of indigenous C2A command-and-control systems

Hanwha Systems announced on 27 December that it has secured a KRW184.6 billion (USD168.5 million) co...

20 February 2020

Pentagon's special ops directorate selects EnforceAir C-UAS platforms

The US Department of Defense’s (DoD's) special operations and low intensity conflict (SO/LIC) direct...

12 October 2020

Airbus selected to upgrade communications and mission systems on RAAF's KC-30A MRTTs

Airbus announced on 12 October that it has been selected by Australia to develop a communications an...

Industry news

10 September 2021

Montana Aerospace to buy Asco Industries

Switzerland-based Montana Aerospace has agreed to purchase fellow aircraft parts maker Asco Industri...

19 July 2021

China's defence exports stay strong despite dip in 2020, Janes data shows

Newly compiled Janes data shows China's defence exports declined mildly in 2020, interrupting a peri...

21 June 2021

Janes analysis: US DoD FY22 Unfunded Priority List requests amount to 3% of the official FY22 President’s Budget Request

Janes has identified 14 Unfunded Priority Lists (UPL lists) that were submitted to the congressional...

Land news

10 September 2021

MSPO 2021: Huta Stalowa Wola reveals M120G SPM prototype

Huta Stalowa Wola (HSW) revealed the newest iteration of its Rak 120 mm self-propelled mortar system...

09 September 2021

British Army soldiers receive health checks after operating Ajax vehicles

British Army soldiers are receiving health tests after they were exposed to excessive noise and vibr...

02 September 2021

Iran unveils new air-defence systems

The Islamic Republic of Iran Army's Air Defence Force unveiled a new surveillance radar and command-...

Sea news

09 September 2021

Australia accepts delivery of second Supply-class AOR vessel from Navantia

Spanish shipbuilder Navantia announced on 8 September that the Australian Department of Defence (DoD...

09 September 2021

Taiwanese navy commissions first improved Tuo Chiang-class corvette, receives second FMLB minelayer

The Republic of China Navy (RoCN) has commissioned its first improved Tuo Chiang (also spelt Tuo Jia...

28 July 2021

US pursuing ‘integrated deterrence' strategy in Asia-Pacific region, says Austin

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J Austin has said the United States is pursuing an “integrated deterre...

Security news

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...

18 August 2021

Dozens of Afghan Air Force aircraft flown out of Afghanistan

More than 40 Afghan Air Force (AAF) aircraft have been flown to Uzbekistan to prevent them from fall...

Weapons news

09 September 2021

Group 99 unveils first Russian scalable body armour

Russia's individual equipment manufacturer Group 99 (Gruppa 99, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov Grou...

07 September 2021

Saudi SAM fails during Houthi attack

A surface-to-air missile (SAM) launched by a Saudi air defence system to intercept a threat from Yem...

08 April 2021

Russian Ground Troop Units and Iskander ballistic missiles identified at Ukrainian border by Janes

Open-source intelligence specialists at Janes have identified fourteen ground troop units and severa...
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