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02 August 2022

Update: India flight-testing new Tejas Mk 1A variant

India has been conducting flight trials of the Mk 1A variant of its domestically developed light com...

02 August 2022

China's electronic warfare UAV completes performance test

China is testing the performance of its new Feihong 95 (Flying Swan or FH-95) electronic warfare (EW...

Air news

02 August 2022

Ukraine conflict: Ukraine purchases UAVs following ‘dronations'

Ukraine has purchased 64 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) following charity ‘dronation...

02 August 2022

US Navy tests Insitu, L3 Harris wide-area mission UASs for potential prototype award

Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, and L3 Harris demonstrated competing unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) f...

28 July 2022

Milestones: KF-21 Boramae

Korea Aerospace Industries' (KAI's) KF-21 Boramae (Hawk) 4.5-generation fighter aircraft project has...

C4ISR news

02 August 2022

Israel Aerospace Industries unveils new STAR-X 3D naval radar

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has expanded its naval radar portfolio with the introduction of a ...

01 August 2022

Microflown Avisa applies 3D shockwave detection for improved counter-artillery capability

Microflown Avisa and Leonardo have developed new acoustic artillery detection technologies, briefing...

27 July 2022

US Army weighing IVAS production decision, unlikely to meet September fielding date

US Army soldiers continued to experience technology and fit challenges during a recent operational t...

Industry news

02 August 2022

Philippines scraps Mi-17 order with Russia

The Philippines has scrapped a multimillion-dollar deal with Russia to acquire Mil Mi-17 heavy-lift ...

01 August 2022

Hanwha announces defence consolidation

Hanwha Aerospace has announced a merger of the Hanwha group's defence businesses as part of plans to...

27 July 2022

Turkish Aerospace announces more African aircraft orders

Nigeria has ordered T129 attack helicopters and Chad has ordered Hürkuş turboprop aircraft, accordin...

Land news

02 August 2022

UK disbands armoured infantry brigade

British Army chiefs have disbanded one of the service's three armoured infantry brigades as they pro...

29 July 2022

Ukraine conflict: North Macedonia donating T-72s to Ukraine and disbanding tank battalion

North Macedonia is donating its T-72 main battle tanks (MBTs) to Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence (M...

29 July 2022

House of Commons Defence Committee calls for UK to match military ambitions with resources

The House of Commons Defence Committee has expressed a sense of déjà vu about UK military ambitions ...

Sea news

01 August 2022

Dutch MoD deploys newly leased RoRo ship for first time

The Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) has officially put into service its newly leased medium Roll-on/...

01 August 2022

Malaysian navy proposes to equip Kedah-class corvettes with Naval Strike Missile

The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) has laid out an MYR214 million (USD48 million) plan to equip two of i...

29 July 2022

USCG to test LEO communications in Arctic

The US Coast Guard (USCG) cutter Healy (WAGB-20) will be testing prototype USCG communications capab...

Security news

28 July 2022

US lawmakers advance bill to boost chip making

The US Senate on 27 July passed a Pentagon-backed bill that would provide USD76 billion to shore up ...

20 July 2022

US lawmakers raise security concerns about Chinese logistics system

The US House of Representatives has backed a proposal that would prohibit the US Department of Defen...

13 July 2022

New Zealand to explore more proactive defence agenda

The New Zealand Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched a Defence Policy Review that could represent ...

Weapons news

27 July 2022

AARGM-ER hits land-based radar system in third live-fire test for US Navy

The US Navy completed a third live-fire development test (DT3) of the Northrop Grumman AGM-88G Advan...

27 July 2022

US Army to publish new NGSW timetable, issued ‘stop work order' after competition protest

The US Army asked Sig Sauer to resume Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) work in early July after L...

21 July 2022

DroneShield, AMC partner on Australian missiles

Sydney-headquartered DroneShield and the Australian Missile Corporation (AMC) announced on 21 July a...
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