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21 January 2021

New European Parliament report calls for hemming in use of military AI on battlefield

The European Parliament has set out its definitive position on the military uses of artificial intel...

01 December 2020

ARRC certified as NATO's first warfighting corps headquarters since Cold War

The Gloucester-based Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) was certified on 17 November as NATO’s first...

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22 January 2021

Canada issues CASSAR request for proposal

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) issued a request for proposal (RFP) for its Cellular A...

22 January 2021

Airbus touts European alignment on NATO Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability

Airbus has touted a European alignment of effort in the development of a next-generation military me...

22 January 2021

Upgrades in sight for French MQ-9 Reaper UAVs

France is currently negotiating with the United States and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-...

C4ISR news

22 January 2021

Canada issues CASSAR request for proposal

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) issued a request for proposal (RFP) for its Cellular A...

22 January 2021

USAF awards USD3.6bn BACN contract

The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded Northrop Grumman USD3.6 billion for continued Battlefield Airbor...

22 January 2021

UK orders Dismounted Joint Fires Integrators from Elbit

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Elbit Systems UK (ESUK) a GBP102 million (USD139 millio...

Industry news

22 January 2021

Canada issues CASSAR request for proposal

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) issued a request for proposal (RFP) for its Cellular A...

22 January 2021

Airbus touts European alignment on NATO Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability

Airbus has touted a European alignment of effort in the development of a next-generation military me...

22 January 2021

Upgrades in sight for French MQ-9 Reaper UAVs

France is currently negotiating with the United States and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-...

Land news

22 January 2021

US Army hosting ‘low collateral' C-sUAS demo

The US Army will evaluate counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-sUAS) technologies ideal for urban...

22 January 2021

MMP missile fired with target designation provided by UAV

MBDA announced in a press release on 21 January that it has demonstrated the firing of the Missile M...

21 January 2021

Lockheed Martin awarded OpFires Phase 3b contract

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fi...

Sea news

22 January 2021

Australian navy's unmanned MCM development picks up pace

The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) efforts to operationalise a rapidly deployable mine-countermeasu...

20 January 2021

China to field more nuclear weapons that can target the United States, says report

China’s missile force is expanding, with the number of nuclear warheads capable of reaching the Unit...

19 January 2021

Ghost Fleet Overlord USV participates in ‘Dawn Blitz' exercise

An experimental Ghost Fleet Overlord unmanned surface vehicle (USV) has participated in a major amph...

Security news

15 December 2020

US government sanctions Turkey over S-400 buy

The US government announced the imposition of sanctions on Turkey’s defence acquisition organisation...

04 January 2021

Israel prepares for changes to security landscape in 2021

Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave an interview to Al Mayadeen TV on 27 December in w...

23 December 2020

Uncertainty prevails over US cyber strategy shift towards ‘persistent engagement'

United States Cyber Command deployed a team to Estonia in November 2020 as part of a new strategy th...

Weapons news

22 January 2021

MMP missile fired with target designation provided by UAV

MBDA announced in a press release on 21 January that it has demonstrated the firing of the Missile M...

22 January 2021

US Army hosting ‘low collateral' C-sUAS demo

The US Army will evaluate counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-sUAS) technologies ideal for urban...

21 January 2021

Lockheed Martin awarded OpFires Phase 3b contract

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fi...
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