The Netherlands has received from Boeing the first of 14 new-build CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to be built to the latest US Army standard, the manufacturer...

The US Army is set to award Lockheed Martin with an enhanced technology maturation risk reduction (E-TMRR) contract for its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) prototyping...

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, which suspended production in its home country for two weeks in March due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), has extended the...

The Argentine Army received its first batch of 10 Ford Ranger 3.2 XLS 4×4 MT6 pick-up trucks on 31 March. The new vehicles will begin to replace the service’s old...

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) has said that Jordan has sold Chinese-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Libyan National Army: a powerful faction...

A drive to mobilise up to 3,000 reserve personnel to help assist civilian agencies with the Covid-19 pandemic has been approved by UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.

Raytheon and United Technologies Corporation (UTC) completed their long-planned merger on 3 April, creating a US-based defence contractor called Raytheon Technologies...

The UK declared initial operating capability (IOC) for its Boeing P-8A Poseidon MRA1 maritime multimission aircraft (MMA) on 3 April.

Boeing and the US Air Force (USAF) on 2 April reached deals on a final fix for the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refuelling tanker’s troublesome remote vision system (RVS) and a...

The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) has ordered two more H225 helicopters to bolster the service’s search-and-rescue, disaster relief, and law enforcement capabilities.

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) has said that Jordan has sold Chinese-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Libyan National Army (LNA), a powerful...

Iran is planning to build a destroyer that displaces about 6,000 tonnes, according to an interview with Admiral Amir Rastegari, the head of the Ministry of Defence and...

Faulty seals are to blame for the leaky fuel system on the US Air Force (USAF) Boeing KC-46A Pegasus aerial refuelling tanker, according to a company executive.

A new programme from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to address a key weakness of autonomous and semi-autonomous land systems: the need for...

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is buying more than 140 Centaur unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) under a new contract with FLIR Systems for USD18.6 million.

Estonia has signed a technical agreement with Finland and Latvia enabling it to continue to participate in the programme to develop military requirements and a platform...

A top US lawmaker is calling for the better use of the Pentagon’s innovative technology production qualities to scale up responses to the coronavirus, Covid-19.

Australian naval shipbuilder Austal has said its business activities remain “largely unaffected” by Covid-19 and that it is on track to register annual increases in...

On 21 March, 17 security forces personnel were killed and 14 others were wounded when Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants conducted an ambush on a...

France is making heavy use of a specialist aero-medical evacuation (medevac) module for its recently acquired Airbus Defence and Space (DS) A330-200 Phénix Multi-Role...