The US Army has begun flying aircraft, participating in its Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (FTUAS) capabilities assessment.

Russian company B-Arms presented the upgraded BRDM-2MB Bekas 4×4 armoured reconnaissance vehicle during a demonstration at a range in Ruza near Moscow on 9 June.

New Lockheed Martin board member James “Jim” Taiclet officially became president and CEO of the US-based defence firm on 15 June as planned, replacing Marillyn Hewson,...

Serbia’s second prototype of the PASARS 6×6 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) test fired indigenously-developed 40 mm pre-fragmented ammunition at ground targets...

Dozens of militants attacked a frontier post in Kafolo, northeastern Côte d’Ivoire, on the border with Burkina Faso, on 11 June, from 0300 h onwards. Local reports...

The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have recently produced the country’s first 3D-printed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

The US Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) with a USD2.5 billion contract to produce Stryker Double V-Hull A1 (DVHA1) vehicles.

Moog is planning to submit a lighter version of its Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) to the US Marine Corp after its initial offering was deemed too...

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has chosen local firearms manufacturer Dasan Machineries as the preferred bidder in a KRW3.8 billion...

Echodyne has developed a family of palm-sized metamaterial electronically-scanning array (MESA) radars for missions such as counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS),...

Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) are using sophisticated unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to clear mines.

The United Kingdom is to extend operations of three Royal Air Force (RAF) Boeing Chinook heavy-lift helicopters that have been deployed to Mali since July 2018, the...

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to hold talks with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (Mitsui E&S) over the potential acquisition of the company’s naval and...

The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) departed the Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on...

The UK’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation on 27 January issued revised key user requirements for the Mobile Fires Platform (MFP) programme to replace...

Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) conducted on 10 June the first flight of its T-5 ‘Blue Magpie’ (now renamed T-5 ‘Brave Eagle’) advanced jet...

Ukraine has developed and deployed electronic warfare (EW) units to address Russian EW efforts in the Donbass region. Janes was given access to personnel who have...

The Serbian Army unveiled the M-84 AS1 main battle tank (MBT) at its Technical Overhaul Institute ‘Čačak’ on 8 June. The tank was developed under the first part of a...

Parliamentary approval of the replacement of the Bundeswehr’s G36 assault rifle has been delayed again, the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on 7 June. The newspaper...

The People’s Liberation Army Ground Force’s (PLAGF’s) new 155 mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer – believed to have the designation PLC-181 – has also entered service...