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Austria and Italy are to co-operate on the procurement of military rotorcraft, with both European nations looking to work together to satisfy separate requirements. With Austria recently selecting the Italian-built AW169M, both nations are now looking to co-operate on future helicopter...

By Xavier Vavasseur CANTO anti torpedo decoy being loaded on a SYLENA Mk2 decoy launcher. Lacroix picture Leonardo And LACROIX Sign A Cooperation Agreement In The Naval Countermeasures Sector The agreement will see the partners integrate Leonardo's MJTE anti-torpedo countermeasures with...

Electromotor housings for China Rheinmetall Group wins major order in the field of electromobility An internationally operating maker of premium automobiles has awarded HASCO KSPG Nonferrous Components (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (KPSNC), a joint venture of Rheinmetall, a major order for electromotor...

The Brazilian Navy is exploring ways to modernise the Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais) and has unveiled a plan to merge three previous modernisation programmes into a new single effort called Programa de Meios de Fuzileiros Navais (PROADSUMUS). In October the navy began the PROADSUMUS...

As part of a historic Missile Defense Agency (MDA) demonstration and for the first time ever, an intercontinental ballistic missile target was intercepted and destroyed outside Earth's atmosphere by an advanced SM-3® Block IIA ballistic missile defense interceptor made by Raytheon Missiles &...

Last Friday, 13 November 2020, the second pair of an additional order for the A-29B Super Tucano was delivered to the Fuerza Aérea de Chile (Chilean Air Force). Seen during their a technical stop at Asunción/Silvio Pettirossi (Paraguay), serials 471 and 472 constitute the last of the follow-on...

Rafael Trophy defensive suite on US Army Abrams MBT [via Rafael] Rafael is to showcase Next-Generation Combat Vehicle Suite for increased lethality, manoeuvrability and situational awareness at DX Korea. ~ Press Release, 16 November 2020: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. is participating in...

Frisian Lightning II marks first national deployment for Dutch F-35A stealth fighters. Dutch F-35 and F-16 fighters taxi at Volkel AFB, The Netherlands, during Frisian Lightning II exercise. From Monday, November 9, 2020, the exercise Frisian Lightning II started at Volkel Air Base...

Bulgaria Signs Contract for Purchase of Multi-Role Patrol Ships with Germany's Fr. Lurssen Werft, It Is One of Three Large Projects for Armed Forces Modernization November 12 (BTA) - On Thursday Bulgaria signed a contract for the acquisition of two multi-role patrol ships for the Bulgarian Navy...

The Defense Ministry is moving ahead with the reinforcement of the Hellenic Air Force with French-made Rafale and US F-35 fighter jets as well as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and drone response systems, possibly within 2021. At the same time, the maintenance and upgrading of existing systems...

The German Armed Forces lost an unarmed Heron reconnaissance drone while on duty in Afghanistan . The unmanned flight system went down east of Mazar-e-Sharif, announced the command and control of the Bundeswehr. The reason is probably a technical defect, people were not harmed. On returning...

Elbit Systems has launched E-LynX-Sat, a compact Satellite Communications (SATCOM) add-on system which utilises a lightweight (less than 1kg) terminal that interfaces with the company’s E-LynX Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution. E-LynX-Sat enables Infantry and manoeuvring forces to maintain...

Two strategic Belgian companies, ABC and FN Herstal, have been selected to provide equipment for the twelve Mine Countermeasures Vessels (MCMV), equipped with drone systems (Toolbox), led by Belgium Naval & Robotics, Naval Group and ECA Group consortium for the Belgian and Dutch navies. FN...

A JL-10 fighter trainer aircraft attached to a regiment under the PLA Naval Aviation University taxies on the flightline in preparation to take off for a live-fire flight training course near the Bohai Bay area in late April, 2020. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Xu Yinglong) China's future...

Autonomous Minesweeping Capability AEUK’s modern unmanned sweeping systems can safely clear sea mines from military theatres of operation, moving towards a future of “removing the man from the minefield”. The world-leading minesweeping systems feature a wide range of capabilities to enable...

Early in the Cold War, the Royal Canadian Air Force modified two iconic Lancasters to carry early unmanned aircraft While unmanned aircraft have become synonymous with America's way of war since 9/11, they've actually been an important feature of military aviation for the better part of a...

he goal of the "football device" was to give soldiers a way to take out tanks at close range in a package the Army hoped would be instinctual to use Few things are as quintessentially American as football and most people in this country have probably played it in some form at least once in...

The chief designer of Ukraine’s Scientific and Production Complex Iskra has disclosed that the United States had recently signed a contract for a radar system. The state-owned enterprise Iskra Research and Production Complex is a leading developer and manufacturer of ground-based radar...