Germany and Poland have agreed to allow each other’s combat aircraft to cross their national borders in the event of a quick reaction alert (QRA) scramble.

Lockheed Martin is billing the latest flight test of a US Army’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) prototype as a ’success’, after it flew about 400 km to a target site at...

The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, announced on its website on 6 May that it had received and delivered the first four...

Chinese state-owned media revealed on 12 May that the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force’s (PLAGF’s) Xinjiang Military Command has begun operating the China North...

The Malaysian government has decided to retain state-affiliated Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) as the shipbuilder for the country’s troubled Maharaja Lela (Gowind)-class...

Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) announced on 12 May that it has conducted the first test flight of an upgraded variant of its SH-60K multirole naval...

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) has indicated that its recent harassment of US Navy (USN) vessels is part of a renewed policy of confrontation rather...

Insights from the trusted global agency for open-source defence intelligence were shortlisted seven times in the 2021 Aerospace Media Awards.

Air Tractor and L3Harris Technologies have revealed their latest intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and light strike platform, dubbed the AT-802U Sky...

Rolls-Royce has been selected to supply MTU naval generator sets for the US Navy’s (USN’s) new FFG-62 Constellation-class guided missile frigate programme (previously...

Australia’s defence budget for the 2021–22 financial year will rise by 4.4% to AUD44.61 billion (USD34.84 billion), including AUD1 billion for the Australian Signals...

Israel Shipyards announced on 12 May that it has won a tender to supply Shaldag Mk V fast patrol boats to the navy of an East Asian country, which Janes understands to...

National governments, the EU, and NATO are considering how to expand their individual and joint military mobility (MM) efforts across Europe during the next decade, with...

The Czech Republic has received an additional Airbus Defence and Space (DS) C295 airlifter, bringing its total fleet up to five.

Japan’s biggest defence contractors have all reported sharp declines in group revenues and earnings for fiscal year (FY) 2020–21, although defence-sector sales have...

Operational Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets arrived in France for the first time on 10 May, the US Air Force (USAF) announced.

The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA – the French Procurement Agency), in association with MBDA and Nexter, has conducted the first lock-on-before launch (LOBL)...

The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), a division of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development within the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD), on 16...

Three Spanish companies are joining forces to work on developing missile systems and other high-performance guided munitions for home and export markets.

EA is increasingly seen as the ‘must have’ capability for aircraft to operate in heavily contested and defended environments. Gareth Jennings explores some of the primary systems being developed and earmarked for the near future, and the latest procurement programmes that have placed EA at the centre of requirements