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US Air Force plans platform cuts for FY 2021 budget request
The US Air Force could save USD2.9 billion over five years if it retires the B-2 by fiscal year 2023, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank in Washington, DC. Source: US Air ForceFincantieri revamps Wisconsin yard to meet USN FFG(X) capacity needs
FMM is proposing a tailored variant of its Bergamini-class FREMM frigate to meet the USN FFG(X) requirement. Source: FincantieriSpanish Army orders portable CBRN laboratory from Indra
The Spanish Army is to receive a rapidly deployable portable chemical laboratory from Indra in 2020. Source: IndraIran reports two more tanker attacks to IMO
The damage inflicted on the Iranian tanker Sabiti. Source: Fars News Agency
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Pentagon seeking whole-of-government response in strategic competition with China
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is “keenly focused on China and its growing projection of power” as Beijing seeks to assume a global leadership role in the coming decades based on its “authoritative socialist model”, Chad Sbragia, the US deputy assistant secretary of
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ADF operations continue apace despite Congolese military offensive
The Congolese military announced on 10 November that security forces had killed Hutu militia leader Juvenal Musabimana (alias Jean-Michel Africa) and four of his bodyguards during “an intense clash” in Binza in the Rutshuru district of Nord Kivu province, close to the border with Uganda,
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Analysis: Ukrainian defence procurement reflects the realities of war in the Donbass
Ukraine is beginning to deliver to its army the weapons and systems it needs to hold firm in the Donbass. As Samuel Cranny-Evans reports, however, more will need to be done for the country to prevail over the long term Ukraine has outlined a number of 2019 deliveries to its armed forces, including
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Korkut SPAAGs delivered to Turkish Armed Forces
Thirteen Korkut twin 35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) low-altitude air defence systems have been delivered to the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), Ismail Demir, Turkey’s Undersecretary for Defence Industries, tweeted on 12 November. He added that the system was developed nationally by
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Lithuania drafts legislation on force structure and personnel levels
The Lithuanian government adopted draft legislation on 6 November on the structure of the armed forces and personnel levels, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on its website on 11 November. Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis said, “The new law will establish not only the
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Modern Warrior: Upgrading the British Army’s infantry fighting vehicle
Sam Cranny-Evans examines how the British Army Warrior is being upgraded to meet the needs of a modern battlefield -
Replacing the F-2: Japan’s complex effort to procure a new fighter jet
Japan is moving forward with efforts to acquire a new fighter aircraft to replace the F-2: its 1990s F-16 derivative. However, undefined requirements, industrial base issues, and US-Japanese sensitivities over the F-2 development are making this procurement tricky. Pat Host reports -
No contest: The trials and tribulations of the US Army’s OMFV competition
In attempting to develop a successor to its Bradley Fighting Vehicle the US Army has already had a couple of false starts with the cancelled Future Combat Systems and Ground Combat Vehicle programmes. As Ashley Roque reports, however, the service's latest such effort is also running into problems
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US Air Force plans platform cuts for FY 2021 budget request
Key Points The US Air Force is planning platform cuts in its FY 2021 budget to free up money for modernisation The service wants to free up money to prepare for near-peer competition and move away from platforms that were more valuable during previous combat in uncontested airspace The US Air
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Russia’s Ka-52M combat helicopter to receive AESA radar
Russia’s new Ka-52M combat helicopter will receive new targeting sensors instead of upgraded versions of present systems. The new V006 Rezets (Cutter) active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar is being developed by the St Petersburg-based Zaslon company for the modernised helicopter.
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Taliban attack two northern Afghan cities as latest round of peace talks with US concludes
The Taliban militant group launched attacks on Puli Khumri, the capital of Afghanistan’s Baghlan Province, on 1 September just a day after it overran several parts of Kunduz City, the capital of Kunduz Province, as the militants ramp up combat operations across the Central Asian country in an
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UK Chief of Defence Intelligence looks to OSINT
Publicly available data will be the backbone of the UK military’s situational awareness in future conflicts and crises, according to the country’s Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), Lieutenant-General James Hockenhull. Speaking at a briefing at the Defence & Security Equipment
