The US Navy (USN) DDG-51 Flight IIA guided missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) has conducted the first operational tests of the Tomahawk Block V cruise missile. A...

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced on 12 December that deliveries of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptor missiles...

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has provisionally declared the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) fit for...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is launching a new Defence Innovation Centre aimed at providing an easy access point for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop...

Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot replace human decision-making in military operations, while any “human-out-of-the-loop” arrangement for lethal autonomous weapon...

Advances in supercomputing technology during the past 20 years are one of multiple reasons that the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is confident...

Flight tests on the Tactical Combat Training System – Increment II (TCTS II), developed by Collins Aerospace (part of Raytheon Technologies) and Leonardo DRS, will begin...

Chinese broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) revealed in a 9 December report that a new, locally developed exoskeleton system is being used by at least one...

Spanish unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) developer aunav announced in early December that it has delivered seven aunav.NEXT explosive ordnance disposal/chemical,...

The US Navy (USN) released its long-delayed 30-year shipbuilding plan on 10 December with a future fleet architecture that echoes the Pentagon plan detailed earlier this...

Peter Felstead, Editor of Janes Defence Weekly provides an overview of the world of defence in 2020

French president Emmanuel Macron has confirmed that the country’s next-generation aircraft carrier will be nuclear powered.

Video footage released by state-owned broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) on 8 December suggests that a new lightweight 122 mm self-propelled howitzer (SPH)...

The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has officially inducted into service the first six of 16 Polish-made Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk helicopters ordered in 2019, the Department...

US President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to “reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 2021”, the Department of Defense (DoD)...

Northrop Grumman has hailed a series of world firsts for its RQ-4D Phoenix-based Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system, ahead of NATO’s declaration of initial...

The China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSC) has entered a “strategic co-operation agreement” with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) to develop...

A new tiltrotor testbed that the US Army recently finished building will help the service tackle the dangerous whirl flutter phenomenon found in tiltrotors.

Amphenol Corporation has agreed to acquire sensor manufacturer MTS Systems Corporation for about USD1.7 billion, the two US-based companies announced on 9 December.

The incoming Biden administration announced on 8 December that it has selected retired US Army general Lloyd Austin III as its future defence secretary. The announcement...