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Australia has concluded its contribution to the Afghan National Army Officer Academy in Qargha near Kabul. Australian Minister for Defence, Linda Reynolds, said Australian advisors at Afghan training establishments made a valuable contribution to the future security of Afghanistan...

F-35 Wing Assembly Cameri Italy: Photo credit: Alenia Aermacchi (AAeM) CAMERI AIR BASE, Italy: The Italians have been significant innovators since the beginning of the airpower era and they continue to innovate with the launch of the F-35. Their facilities here provide support not only for...

The new weapons are meant to keep Israel's qualitative edge after President Trump agreed to sell the F-35 to the UAE and Teheran rattles its homemade swords, furious about the new era between Israel and some Gulf states. Israeli pilots check out V-22 TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Parsons is playing a key role in the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), which collects and fuses information in new ways that will enable the Army’s JADC2 vision A prototype fire control radar used to track threats and pass information to weapons designed to take down...

The Bundeswehr is accelerating the renewal of its truck fleet with funds from the Corona economic stimulus package. Rheinmetall will deliver 150 HX2 trucks in the 5-tonne payload class with 6×6 chassis and 850 HX2 trucks in the 15-tonne payload class with 8×8 chassis. The contract-volume is...

Although it is not preferred by the world armies, the combination of East-West systems is the main choice of the Middle Eastern countries. Although this type of landscape may seem unfamiliar to many people, this geography is also quite normal. Egyptian AH-64 apache / Kamov KA-52 Rafale /...

Tempest jet illustration. The British Future Combat Air Programme, Tempest, is expected to create 20,000 jobs every year from 2026 to 2050, and contribute £25 billion to the UK economy. The Tempest programme is being delivered by Team Tempest, a UK technology and defence partnership formed by...

Israeli defence company Meteor Aerospace has successfully completed a series of sea trials with its ORCA Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). The trials were held in Israeli waters, demonstrating ORCA’s technical and operational capabilities, including autonomous unmanned operation, use of its...

Pakistan’s Navy is racing to plug operational and technological gaps as part of an unprecedented modernization effort, according to the outgoing naval chief, but analysts are divided on whether the move will deter adversaries. Adm. Zafar Mahmood Abbasi was speaking during the an Oct. 6...

The wings and tail section of the KC-130J that made a crash-landing on 29 September 2020 near Thermal, Salton City (CA), were taken from the fuselage on crash-location. As known, the Hercules tanker with Bureau Number 166765 collided with a F-35B over southern California. The crew was able to...

Turkey’s army in Qatar is an element of instability in the Gulf region, a senior official of the United Arab Emirates has said, adding that it contributed to negative polarisation. The UAE and its Arab allies have imposed a boycott on Qatar since mid-2017 and had demanded that Doha close a...

Japan plans to sign an agreement with Vietnam to allow it to export defense equipment and technology to the country, part of a move to strengthen defense capabilities of Indo-Pacific nations to counter Chinese maritime advances, the Nikkei newspaper reported Wednesday. Prime Minister Yoshihide...

The Japan Coast Guard is to evaluate the Sea Guardian unmanned air vehicle starting from today. Testing of the General Atomics aircraft will take place in Sanriku and Sea of Japan. It will operate out of JMSDF Hachinohe Air Base. The evaluation will complete on Nov. 10. During this period...

The Medium Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MUAV) program by Korean Air is in trouble, a lawmaker from South Korea has disclosed. According to Kim Jin-pyo, one prototype had crashed and the other has been grounded since December last year. It seems that the aircraft’s anti-icing system is...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited the AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS on Leshan mountain on Oct. 13 and had the opportunity to take pictures with the crew of the Oerlikon GDF-006 35 mm twin cannon unit that protects the vital installation. Photos: Presidential office of the Republic of China

France offered to sell 12 second-hand Rafale jets to Croatia, weeks after it said it will give away 8 used jets to Greece as a “gift.” On October 14, Chief of the Defence Staff François Gérard Marie Lecointre confirmed France’s offer to Croatia was made in September. Around late August France...

Tracking and harassing submarines will likely be a key job for the new generation of networked, unmanned ships. An Unmanned Surface Vessel navigates a predetermined course at Camp Lejeune in 2019. WASHINGTON: After a series of headline-grabbing failures integrating technologies on new classes...

Fighter bombers attached to a naval aviation brigade under the PLA Northern Theater Command fly in line formation during a recent combat readiness patrol recently. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Wang Limin) Fighter bombers attached to a naval aviation brigade under the PLA Northern Theater...

Italian FREMM, the basis for the FFG-62 program. Fincantieri Marine Group Image The lead ship in the Navy’s next-generation frigate class could cost $1.6 billion, a figure that is 40 percent above the service’s projections for the first-in-class vessel, according to the Congressional Budget...

The Fifth Generation Aerial Target will take its first flight later this month at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, following nearly flawless completion of ground-based testing in September. After a multi-month delay due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, 5GAT finished a battery of ground test...