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Over the last year, FLIR has won multiple orders totaling roughly $97 million for more than 750 Centaur systems from the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps The Centaur unmanned ground vehicle. Photo: FLIR Industrial technology company FLIR Systems announced this week that the U.S. Army...

Leonardo and Lacroix have signed a strategic agreement which will see the partners working together to develop and integrate solutions in the naval countermeasures sector. The collaboration, which will look towards new technologies as well as new business opportunities, initially provides for...

After six years, the two countries ink a deal to streamline procedures for their respective military’s deployment in each other's territory. The Japanese have such a pact only with the US. Australia and Japan’s membership in the Chinese-dominated Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership does...

The Type-093A Shang-II Class submarine is equipped with a wide array of missiles and torpedoes. Submarine expert H I Sutton takes a close look at China's Type 093A submarine and explains what makes it the most powerful attack submarine in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)'s arsenal...

Muscat: The Royal Air Force of Oman carried out a medical evacuation operation of a female citizen suffering from a critical health condition. The Royal Air Force of Oman said in a statement, “Today, one of the helicopters of the Royal Air Force of Oman carried out a medical evacuation operation...

According to information published on the Facebook account of the U.S. Army Future Command on November 13, 2020, the U.S. Army on Friday, November 13, 2020, activated two new Iron Dome air defense artillery batteries at Fort Bliss, Texas, charged with evaluating the two Iron Dome missile defense...

Tank-killing robots, armed with Javelin Missiles, wireless remote firing technology, .50-cal machine guns and long-range infrared targeting sensors are now arriving to the Army as part of the service’s ambitious program to engineer a new class of light, medium, and heavy robots for war...

Had the A-12 program panned out, the Navy would still have a potent long-range carrier-based penetrating strike capability that would have been superior to anything currently envisioned. Here's What You Need To Remember: Current Pentagon policy prohibits autonomous weapons from making the...

According to a press release published on November 11, 2020, QinetiQ Inc. and Pratt Miller Defense have announced the delivery of the first Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light (RCV-L) to the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC). RCV-L Robotic...

On November 4th, Iran’s Channel 1 aired the unveiling of “missile machine gun”, a system capable of rapidly and accurately firing long-range ballistic missiles. “This means that if the enemies of this country decide to make a mistake, they would have no opportunity to move or breathe,” Channel 1...

It remains unclear if the Chinese trimaran will even be built for the PLA Navy. Here's What You Need To Remember: If China’s new trimaran frigate does actually become a reality, the ship will not lack for armament. Along with its seventy-six-millimeter main gun, the ship also is said to possess...

Like something out of G.I. Joe, or even Star Wars, the U.S. Air Force is working with aerospace defense firm Lockheed Martin to deploy lasers on fighter jets by 2025. The program even has a super comic book-y title -- going by "SHiELD" (yes, with a lower-case 'I'), aka "Self-Protect High...

The meeting saw the signing of a co-operation agreement in training and building military capabilities. HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs Dr Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah yesterday met with the Defence Minister of the Government of National Accord in Libya...

Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has eliminated several Boko Haram terrorists. The offensive targeted hideouts at Njimia and Dure in Sambisa forest, Borno State. Coordinator, Defence Media Operation, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, said this in a statement on...

According to information published on November 9, 2020, the U.S. Air Force Agile Combat Support Directorate is working with the Department of the Army to field the DoD replacement for up-armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, better known as Humvees with JLTVs Joint Light Tactical...

Here's What You Need to Remember: Precision-guided munitions helped the United States military destroy an Afghan government in a few months, with minimal footprint. What can they do against ISIS? How has the growth of the Precision-Guided Munitions (PGM) complex changed the balance of...

It will let the Army strike further at enemy targets, including warships. The Army will soon fire the Navy’s ship-launched Standard Missile 6 from the ground as part of a new Mid-Range Capability weapons program designed to bring new dimensions to land attack. In a manner aligned with the...

Ukraine already supplies to the U.S. Army its air-defense radars, including the newest 36D6M1-1 3D mobile radar. Ukroboronprom The United States Department of Defense has reportedly awarded to Ukraine's Iskra, which is part of the UkrOboronProm defense giant, a contract for the supply of a...

By Lan Ying Exercise Keen Sword 21 (KS21), the largest-scale joint military exercise between the US and Japan this year, began on October 26 and ran through November 5 in the western Pacific Ocean. Keen Sword is a bilateral biennial defense exercise designed to enhance US-Japan combat...

The combined mobility of the vehicle and the UAS will effectively double their surveillance capabilities. Strategic Elements Ltd, a subsidiary of Perth-based Stealth Technologies, and a California-based firm, Planck AeroSystems, are partnering to develop a system to enable drones to...