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Two new and advanced guided missile destroyers have recently entered service with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, official reports show. This takes the tally of new destroyers that have been commissioned into the PLA Navy this year known to the general public up to four, which...

An evaluation of the impact of SCS disputes on ASEAN at this critical juncture in its evolution depends, fundamentally, upon what one thinks ASEAN is all about. Individual ASEAN member-states adopted a charter in 2008 that lays out the organization’s formal objectives. A centerpiece is that...

Analysts say the weapon would be one of the largest intercontinental ballistic missile of its kind in the world if it is operational. The new North Korean 'monster' intercontinental ballistic missile (Image: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Image) North Korea unveiled a previously unseen 'monster'...

U.S. Air Force Capt. Brian DeCicco, 380th Operations Support Squadron weather flight commander, deployed from Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and Senior Master Sgt. Ronald Bradford, 380th OSS weather flight noncommissioned officer in charge. U.S. Air Force...

China accused the USS John S. McCain of entering waters around the disputed Paracel Islands.PHOTO: US NAVY HONG KONG (REUTERS) - A Chinese military spokesman said on Friday (Oct 9) that the US destroyer John McCain had entered waters around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea...

The mysterious aircraft will deliver “survivability, lethality, and persistence.” Here's how. Last month, the Air Force announced it secretly designed, built, and flew a new fighter jet. The Air Force believes “sixth-generation” fighters will require major new tech, but the service won’t say...

The Army is seeking a new mid-range missile system that can hit targets between 500 to 1,500 kilometers, or 310 to 930 miles, to help fill a gap in its fires portfolio by 2023. Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team, said the...

File photo of a U-2 landing at Beale AFB, California. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force) This was the first time the open-source container-orchestration system has flown on an operational major weapon system in the Department of Defense. In what was the first time the system has flown on an...

Per the three-year contract, GKN Aerospace will provide Raytheon with 95 Mk30 missile canisters that are manufactured via a filament winding process followed by vacuum infusion. ESSM missile. Photo Credit: GKN Aerospace GKN Aerospace (Redditch, U.K.) reported on Oct. 5 that it has...

The F-14 is designed to roll and turn at supersonic speeds and outshoot planes threatening our fleet. It's the Navy's substitute for the controversial F-111. In the January 1970 issue, Popular Mechanics laid out the details of the Navy's newest jet fighter: the F-14 Tomcat. A fast and nimble...

Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth under missile attack! Simulated here by RNAS Culdrose’s Hawk jet aggressor squadron #736NAS -testing @HMSQNLZ ship’s company in real time #JW202 #JointWarrior @RoyalNavy #essentialtraining pic.twitter.com/yVeh12G88u HMS Queen Elizabeth came under a simulated...

Jakarta/Sydney | The Indonesian government has confirmed Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto will visit the United States for the first time this month, marking the end of a ban by Washington on the former military strongman...

Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite announced USS Constellation (FFG 62) as the name for the first ship in the new Guided Missile Frigate (FFG(X)) class of ships Oct. 7 while aboard the museum ship Constellation in Baltimore Inner Harbor. U.S. Navy press release The...

The Global Protection systems market is poised to achieve a revenue of USD 16 Billion by the year 2028 from a value of USD 11 Billion in 2019. Protection Systems are technologies employed to supplement security to military and defense equipment. These systems are designed to withstand, detect...

A U.S. MC-130J military aircraft (Photo by Samuel King of the USAF/Source: Wikimedia Commons) Taipei, Oct. 8 (CNA) A U.S. MC-130J military aircraft flew along the median line of the Taiwan Strait that separates China and Taiwan Thursday, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed that...

The AN/WSN-7 ship inertial navigation system senses ship motion and computes position, velocity, attitude, and heading in digital and analog formats. WASHINGTON – U.S. Navy shipboard navigation and guidance specialists are continuing their efforts to squeeze all the life they can out of the...

ISLAMABAD: Admiral Amjad Khan Niazi was sworn in on Wednesday assumed as 22nd Chief of Naval Staff during a change of command ceremony held at PNS Zafar Naval Complex in Islamabad. According to a press release issued by Director General of Public Relations, Pakistan Navy, during the ceremony...

This is a warning to countries that might use drones to spy on Iran. Iran's domestically-produced Saegheh fighter jets perform a flypast during a military parade to commemorate the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran September 22, 2007 (photo credit: REUTERS/MORTEZA NIKOUBAZL)...

The recently concluded JIMEX 20 naval exercises between the Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) point to a new era in the maritime ties between the two countries. These exercises were held in the North Arabian Sea from September 26 to September 28. JIMEX-20 encompassed...

Rendering of the future Pakistan Navy corvette GE Marine announced it has signed a contract with STM (Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik Ve Ticaret A.Ş.), Ankara, Turkey, to provide LM2500 marine gas turbines to power the Pakistan Navy’s new MILGEM multipurpose corvettes. STM is the main...