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China's latest commissioned and fully domestically made tactical utility helicopter, the Harbin Z-20, is expected to become the country's most-delivered rotorcraft by entering service with not only the Chinese army, but also the nation's air, naval forces and armed police, with additional...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/11/qatars-new-air-defense-corvette-starts-sea-trials/#prettyPhoto Qatar Emiri Naval Forces (QENF) first-of-class Al Zubarah air defense corvette. Picture by Giorgio Arra. Qatar’s New Air Defense Corvette Starts Sea Trials A new major milestone in the...

The second CH-47F Chinook for the Republic of Singapore Air Force, serial 88161 and test registration N272GG, was photographed making a test flight near Wilmington/New Castle (DE). Singapore has sixteen new Chinooks on order to replace the current fleet of CH-47SD aircraft. The first one...

(Reuters) - A prominent Egyptian rights group said security agents arrested its executive director on Thursday, days after two other senior members were detained under charges including joining a terrorist group. "Gasser Abdel Razek was detained by security forces from his home in Maadi and...

A Royal Thai Army Bell 212 (of the 3rd Aviation Battalion, using callsign RAPTOR32, and based at Lop Buri/Sa Pran Nak), crashed on 17 November 2020. It was carrying the local governor and made an emergency landing on a school field at Ban Khun Mae Yod School, Mae Suek, Mae Chaem district...

It does not include all defense expenditures. Some of expenses belong to defense ministry, some purchases belong to SSB. Total expenditures re about 20 billions dollars..

It was 20.4 billion dollars in 2019(17,19 billions Euros)

By Paolo Valpolini The 8×8 autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (A-UGV) developed by Rheinmetall Canada, the Mission Master, has become a reality since some time, however the overseas branch of the Rheinmetall group continues to evolve it, introducing new capabilities and new concepts of...

Norwegian Minister of Defence Frank Bakke-Jensen has presented Norwegian plans for the renewal of the country’s MBTs. According to these plans, Norway intends to field the new tanks from 2025. Norway purchased 52 LEOPARD 2 A4 MBTs from the Netherlands in 2001 and adapted them to Norwegian...

Also, Airbus and the Federal Republic of Germany today submitted their official offer to the Swiss Federal Office of Armaments (Armasuisse) for the sale of EUROFIGHTER aircraft to Switzerland. The offer, which has been prepared in cooperation with the other EUROFIGHTER nations as well as...

The five year programme for training Afghan Air Force (AAF) pilots on the A-29B Super Tucano at Moody Air Force Base (GA) is finished. The final class graduated on 13 November 2020. At Moody AFB, the 14th Flying Training Wing, responsible for the 81st Fighter Squadron Panthers, operated the...

Final assembly in Switzerland of all four aircraft would take place between 2028 and 2030. Previously Finland, Switzerland Considering F-35s and Super Hornets in Upcoming Fighter Contests U.S. Air Force Captain Kristin “BEO” Wolfe, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team Commander, flies...

The German parliament's budget committee approved a 2.3 billion euro ($2.7 billion) contract to buy 31 Airbus helicopters for the country's navy on Thursday, a parliamentary source said. The Sea Tiger helicopters will be deployed on frigates, and their main job will be submarine-hunting. They...

There are traces of air burst munition on the vehicle. Photos of the Kargu kamikaze drone were shared in Azerbaijan. These traces may be of Kargu.

ARES 85 HERCULES Fast Patrol Boat for Royal Oman Police Coast Guard The first of 14 Ares-85 boats was delivered in 2019

Photos of the destroyed Scud ballistic missile system TEL, which belonged to the Armed Forces of Armenia

WFEL, the UK subsidiary of German defense company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), has announced that the first British manufacture of Ministry of Defense’s Boxer mechanized infantry vehicles moves further forward with significant contracts signed. According to a company news release, ARTEC...

Turkey to buy Chinese COVID-19 candidate vaccine doses, in talks with Pfizer Turkey will sign a contract within days to buy at least 20 million doses of a COVID-19 candidate vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech, the health minister was cited as saying, adding that Ankara was also in talks to...