South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has extended the deadline of its proposed acquisition of rival shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), it...

Pakistan has received five Cai Hong 4 (Rainbow 4, or CH-4) multirole medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from China, according to...

Lockheed Martin’s revenue from the rapidly growing area of hypersonic weapons could double to USD3 billion a year by the middle of the decade, according to a company...

The US Army received its final Airbus Helicopters UH-72A Lakota support helicopter in the third quarter of 2020, ahead of the commencement of UH-72B deliveries in 2021.

US lawmakers have sliced procurement dollars from the army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) programme, and a newly released Director, Operational Test and...

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) – one of the country’s most important defence industrial enterprises – has reported strong financial growth...

The EU is now operationally testing its concept for Co-ordinated Maritime Presences (CMP): a new co-operative tool for exchanging maritime picture data and analyses...

Airbus Helicopters has said it is well placed to ride out the effects of the Covid-19 global pandemic, but expects the impact to be felt in 2022 as the order backlog is...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has revealed four sites in western Saudi Arabia that it is using as part of an effort to establish more resilient supply lines.

The first Penicillin acoustic artillery reconnaissance system has been delivered to the Russian armed forces by the Vega Concern, a company within Russia’s Rostec State...

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced on 26 January that deliveries of S&T Motiv K-14 sniper rifles and Hanwha Systems...

Israeli company Elbit Systems announced on 26 January that it has been awarded a USD172 million contract to supply an undisclosed number of Sabrah ASCOD 2 light tanks...

UK-based Forum Energy Technologies has disclosed the completion of a new free-swimming submarine rescue vehicle (SRV) for an Indo-Pacific navy.

A detachment of Spanish Air Force (Ejército del Aire Español: EdAE) Eurofighter combat aircraft and support staff arrived at Mihail Koglaniceanu Air Base on 25 January,...

India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully conducted the first test launch of the indigenously developed Akash-NG (New Generation)...

The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has inaugurated the Maritime Security and Response Flotilla (MSRF), a new construct under the country’s restructured Maritime...

The US Navy (USN) is to equip the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with a targeting capability for...

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) – China’s biggest defence industrial enterprise – has announced increases in revenues and profits despite the impact of...

New civilian leadership inside the US Army and Pentagon will be central to forthcoming budget plans and moving ahead with new equipment development. However, for now, US...

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on 25 January directing US government agencies to increase their adherence to “Buy American” requirements.