Bahrain is the latest country in the Gulf region to launch a defence offset policy. Known as the BDF Economic Programme, the new policy aims to support economic...

Arnold Defense, in association with Thales, has received formal certification to fire the Thales FZ90 70 mm/2.75 inch unguided Folding Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR) from...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is deliberating a plan for the regional group to deploy a military force to Mozambique to help stabilise the northern...

Revenue at Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security (BDS) business jumped 19% to USD7.2 billion in the first quarter of 2021 driven by US Air Force orders for KC-46A tanker...

Aerospace engineers from Indonesia could soon return to South Korea to recommence work on the development of the KF-21 fighter aircraft, Janes understands.

The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, conducted a test launch of an unarmed M51 missile from the agency’s missile test site...

The US Army will conduct a series of four test shots with Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) prototype this year.

India’s government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted the first test-firings of the Israeli-made, imaging infrared (IIR)-guided...

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) appear to have restarted harassing US vessels in the Gulf after a year-long pause.

Key military training bases in northern Australia are to receive upgrades amounting to AUD747 million (USD578.4 million) to support expanded live exercises and...

AeroVironment will integrate its Switchblade 600 loitering missile system onto US Naval Special Warfare (NSW) combatant craft under a USD26.1 million contract awarded by...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has approved a freeze of BRL1.364 billion (USD250 million) for the defence budget as part of the revised and delayed 2021 federal...

InstantEye Robotics demonstrated its Mk-3 Gen5-D1/D2 (E) Echo palm-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the recent US Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment (AEWE).

UAVOS carried out the test flight of an experimental turbulence detection payload on its HiDRON stratospheric glider on 1 April.

The Babcock-led Team 31 has completed the Whole Ship Critical Design Review (WSCDR) for the UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) new Type 31 frigate, paving the way for the start of...

The US Navy (USN) has completed a major Pacific Fleet exercise designed to demonstrate the operational pay-offs realisable through the closer integration of multidomain...

Spirit AeroSystems has named its team to take forward the United Kingdom’s Mosquito ‘loyal wingman’ attritable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) concept.

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II combat aircraft of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 ‘The Wake Island Avengers’ arrived in the United Kingdom on 27 April,...

Saudi Arabia has a requirement for export versions of the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) counter-fire target acquisition radar, according to a US Army announcement released via the US...

The Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Laut: TNI-AL) has ruled out human error, and refuted suggestions that its doomed Cakra (Type 209/1300)-class...