The election of right-wing outsider Jair Bolsonaro as Brazilian president in October 2018 was explained by voters’ anger over economic recession, corruption, and...

The Philippine government has announced a defence budget increase for 2021, with the aim to boost military modernisation despite economic constraints stemming from...

Kazakhstan’s state-controlled defence industry conglomerate, Kazakhstan Engineering (KE), announced a raft of agreements had been signed with Russia during the Army 2020...

The Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), a state-affiliated Indian research and development (R&D) organisation overseen by the government’s Council...

The US Air Force (USAF) is now expecting the first flight of its Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider long range strike bomber (LRSB) to take place no earlier than 2022,...

Russia’s Military Industrial Company (VPK) unveiled an amphibious variant of the Strela 4×4 light armoured vehicle at the Army 2020 defence exhibition being held in...

The Qatar Joint Special Forces (QJSF) have signed an agreement with Barzan Holdings covering the delivery of vehicles from the Turkish company Nurol Makina, the Qatari...

On 3 January, an airstrike conducted by a United States military unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at Baghdad International Airport killed the head of the Islamic Revolution...

Sweden’s Saab provided an outline of a significant package as part of its bid for Finland’s HX fighter procurement programme on 28 August, including the development of a...

Rostec's Russian Helicopters’ first flying prototype of the upgraded Mi-171Sh helicopter, designated as the Mi-171Sh-VN, is being displayed for the first time at the...

Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) inaugurated on 28 August a maintenance, repair, overhaul, and upgrade (MRO&U) centre to support its...

Brisbane-based technology firms Cyborg Dynamics Engineering and BIA5 are using funding from the Australian government to develop an indigenous multirole unmanned ground...

The Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) has finalised a deal to procure air surveillance radars from Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Melco).

The US Navy is soliciting industry input for an effort to migrate all computer infrastructure supporting the entire surface fleet into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service...

Kazakhstan armoured vehicle producer Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE) has issued an open letter to the country’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, calling for the...

EOS Defence Systems is preparing for full field-demonstrations and production of its Mopoke tactical counter unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) suite, including deployment...

Lift Aircraft is offering its Hexa all-electric, optionally-piloted, amphibious 18-rotor aircraft for the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) Agility Prime electric vertical takeoff...

Defence Minister Andriy Taran approved the adoption of the RK-360MC Neptune coastal defence missile by the nation’s armed forces on 23 August based on the results of its...

On 7 May, Mustafa al-Kadhimi assumed the office of Prime Minister in Iraq. He had run on a bold reformist agenda, singling out for reform the Iran-backed Shia militias...