The Pentagon confirmed plans to slash US troop levels in Afghanistan from about 4,500 down to 2,500, and in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500 before President-elect Joe Biden is...

The US Navy (USN) in October acquired a logistics unmanned aerial system (UAS) prototype developed by Skyways of Austin, Texas, to demonstrate long-range naval...

Russia’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection Troops are testing the TOS-2 Tosochka multiple rocket launcher (MRL), the service’s commander,...

The United Kingdom needs to devote more resources to defending its critical space-based interests, with the chief of the Royal Air Force (RAF) warning of the increasing...

The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) is holding a joint exercise with Sudan for the first time: a move likely to raise Ethiopian concerns about the growing defence ties between...

Embraer Defense and Security will deliver two KC-390 Millennium airlifters to the Hungarian Air Force (HuAF) between 2023 and 2024, the Brazilian company announced on 17...

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested an SM-3 Block IIA interceptor against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)-class target for the first time on 17...

A team of United Kingdom and United States military leaders has been set up in a first-of-its-kind collaboration to take pitches from international technology firms on...

The huge increase in the sale and transport of waste plastic has created lucrative and varied opportunities for unscrupulous businesses and organised crime groups (OCGs)...

Martin UAV is developing a new version of its V-Bat mini vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will feature increased endurance and...

US-based government services provider PAE has agreed to acquire American intelligence business Metis Solutions for USD92 million in cash, PAE announced on 16 November.

The Brazilian Navy is exploring ways to modernise the Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais) and has unveiled a plan to merge three previous modernisation programmes...

Nexter is joining the field vying to win the US Army’s towed howitzer replacement competition, and is proposing its CAmionÉquipé d’un Système d’ARtillerie (CAESAR)...

Turkey’s Minister of National Defence (MND), Hulusi Akar, faced the country’s Plan and Budget Commission on 12 November to present the case for the ministry’s increased...

DroneShield has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based optical system, DroneOptID, to its DroneSentry counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) suite,...

Janes, the trusted global agency for open-source defence intelligence highlights that of the 11 budgets published in Asia since the onset of the pandemic, only 3 are showing spending decreases.

Austria and Italy are to co-operate on the procurement of military rotorcraft, with both European nations looking to work together to satisfy separate requirements.

On 6 November, the US Department of the Treasury sanctioned Gebran Bassil, head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) – the leading Christian party in Lebanon and close...

Lithuania signed for four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk transport and utility helicopters on 13 November, the country’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) announced.

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) put its Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft into service on 6 November, making it the first international partner to...