The United Kingdom has deployed AgustaWestland-Boeing WAH-64 Apache AH1 and AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat AH1 helicopters to Estonia in support of NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP).  The five Apaches at their home base in Wattisham shortly before departing for Estonia. They are joined in their deployment by four Lynx Wildcats. (Crown Copyright)  Five British Army Air Corps (AAC) Apaches from 663 Squadron departed their home base at Wattisham in Suffolk on 15 April, two days after four AAC Wildcats from 661 Sqn departed Royal Naval Ai...

The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare Italiana: AMI) has deployed an undisclosed number of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft to Keflavik Airbase to conduct NATO air policing and training duties over Iceland.  The Italian Air Force has deployed to Keflavik for the fourth time in recent years. It will perform air policing and training duties over Iceland through to mid-April. (Italian Air Force)  The deployment for NATO’s ‘Airborne Surveillance and Interception Capabilities to Meet Iceland’s Peacetime Preparedness Needs’ mission, which...

Airbus Helicopters has confirmed it is to bid its H145M battlefield support helicopter for Australia’s special forces requirement.  The H145M demonstrates its special forces credentials with the German KSK counter-terrorism unit. The type is now to be offered to Australia in a similar role. (Airbus Helicopters)    The announcement, made by the company on 18 March, comes eight months after  Jane’s  first reported that Airbus was discussing with a potential customer a requirement to airlift up to four H145Ms aboard a Boeing C-17...

Janes Country Stability Indicators (JCSI) Country NameTurkey SynonymRepublic of Türkiye, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti  Janes Country Stability Indicators are available with our Country Intelligence capability for 184 countries. To find out more visit: Country Assessments (janes.com)Overall stability  Turkey has an overall stability rating of 2.73/4 (4= very high country instability) and a global rank of 169/184 (184=highest country instability). Janes assesses that the country faces a high risk of disorderly government collapse, forceful transfer of pow...

In this opinion piece, Sean Corbett, founder of and CEO of IntSight Global and Chairman of Janes National Security Advisory Board, discusses the challenges facing NATO in light of the Ukraine crisis  As increasingly belligerent rhetoric by NATO and E...

LONDON (7 July 2021) - Janes, the trusted global agency for open-source defence intelligence, has worked in partnership with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, California; the global monitoring company BlackSky; and the data analysis company Orbital Insight to produce a comprehensive assessment of a nuclear site under construction in Iran using next-generation ‘structured observation management’ techniques.  In the Janes Intelligence Review study, the new site – a likely underground centrifu...

Key pointsEvent: On 15 April 2023, fighting erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)Significance: Since January 2023, Janes Military Coup Indicator has ranked Sudan among the top three states most likely to experience a military coup. However, the preceding fragmentation and current conflict between the RSF and the SAF differ significantly from previous coups and greatly increase the likelihood that Sudan will fall into a prolonged internal conflictOutlook: It is likely that the SA...