Janes has today announced an agreement to acquire the defence market analytics business – also known as Global Platforms and Systems (GPS) – from Avascent to support its industry intelligence solutions and enhance the offering it provides to customers.

The United States formally withdrew from the international Open Skies treaty on 22 November, fulfilling the Trump administration’s pledge made in May.

Since the early 1990s, Somalia has been more readily assigned the status of a ‘failed state’ than perhaps any other country. Central government authority ended with the...

Rheinmetall Defence Australia (RDA) has formed a partnership with a Brisbane-based firm to support its proposal to supply the Australian Army with its Lynx KF41 infantry...

Korea Aerospace Industries’ (KAI’s) dedicated services company, Korea Aviation Engineering & Maintenance Service (KAEMS), has launched its new facility in Sacheon, in...

Newport News Shipbuilding has created a single team to fix and install Advanced Weapons Elevators (AWEs) on aircraft carriers USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78), which is...

Armasuisse, the Swiss Federal Office for Defence Procurement, on 18 November announced that it has received the second set of proposals for the country's Air2030 Neues...

Only three of 46 piloted Pentagon aircraft met their annual mission capability (MC) goals in a majority of the years between fiscal years (FYs) 2011–19, according to a...

At least 34 civilians were killed on 14 November when unidentified gunmen ambushed a passenger bus as it travelled through a remote area between the towns of Wonbera and...

The Netherlands has begun shipping the first of its Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters to the United States for overhaul and remanufacture to the latest...

Disinformation campaigns that target the EU’s military and civil security missions in Africa and elsewhere to undermine their credibility are rising, according to EU...

South Korean company Hanwha displayed at the 18–20 November DX Korea 2020 defence exhibition in the South Korean city of Goyang models of three future laser-based weapon...

Chinese state-owned media have released images showing for the first time a People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) Mi-171-series multirole medium helicopter...

The first of its Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft to be configured for the medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) role has been received by the...

Five European nations have come together to develop a new medium-lift multirole helicopter for the 2035–40 time period.

During a meeting in Brussels on 20 November, EU defence ministers approved their first full-cycle Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD).

The French ministry for the armed forces has awarded Dassault Aviation a contract for the construction of seven Falcon 2000 LXS aircraft in the maritime surveillance...

Orolia Defense and Security will begin delivering M-Code enabled variants of the company’s Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) platforms by early 2021,...

Amid ongoing border tensions between China and India the Tibet Military District of the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) has placed orders for assorted...

The United Kingdom is to set up a Space Command, with operations set to begin in 2021.