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Luftwaffe Eurofighters get Meteor BVRAAM
The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) has begun equipping its Eurofighter combat aircraft with the MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), the service...Full story -
DARPA selects research teams for WARP programme
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have officially selected several research teams to lead the agency’s work in developing technologies to expand...Full story -
Update: RotorX demonstrates Palledrone heavy-lift UAV at US Army AEWE
RotorX has developed a fully autonomous heavy-lift unmanned hexacopter called the Palledrone that participated in the last two US Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments...Full story -
North Korea's military capabilities to pose ‘increasing threat' to US and its Asian allies, says ODNI
The US intelligence community has warned that the threat posed by North Korea to the United States, South Korea, and Japan will increase as Pyongyang continues to...Full story -
US Army eyes new, low-cost emitter systems for EMSO training
US Army researchers are delving into the realm of low-cost threat emitters, to assist combat units preparing to conduct operations in highly congested and contested...Full story -
Update: US set to withdraw remaining troops from Afghanistan before 11 September
US President Joe Biden announced on 14 April that he plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan before 11 September, almost 20 years after the...Full story -
China's ‘push for global power' poses greatest security threat to US, says US intelligence community
The US intelligence community has put what it described as China’s ‘push for global power’ at the top of its latest annual report on worldwide threats to the national...Full story -
Prospects for Afghan peace deal in near future ‘remain low', says ODNI
The US intelligence community is not optimistic about the prospects of the Afghan government and the Taliban reaching a peace deal anytime soon to end the decades-long...Full story -
Japan's first Global Hawk UAV makes maiden flight
The first of three RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30i (international) high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on order for the Japan Air...Full story -
EXPAL expands 155 mm ammunition family
Following final firing trials, by mid-2021, Spain’s EXPAL and the Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) are expected to have qualified the latest two 155 mm artillery...Full story -
Indian Army seeks active protection systems for its T-90S/SK MBTs
The Indian Army (IA) has invited responses from local vendors by 12 May regarding the supply of 818 modular active protection systems (APSs) to enhance the survivability...Full story -
US Navy cancels Black Sea deployment amid rising tension with Russia
Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency, quoting Turkish diplomatic sources, reported on 15 April that the deployment of two US Navy (USN) warships to the Black Sea scheduled...Full story -
Insitu Pacific, Boeing Australia demonstrate ‘detect and avoid' technology on ScanEagle UAV
Insitu Pacific announced on 1 April that it successfully completed test flights of a ScanEagle tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fitted with the vision-based...Full story -
France orders second VSR700 unmanned helicopter prototype
France has ordered a second prototype of the VSR700 unmanned helicopter demonstrator that Naval Group is developing alongside Airbus Helicopters.Full story -
MDA sets out new headmark for sea-based Glide Phase Interceptor
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has outlined plans to develop and demonstrate a sea-based Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) designed to provide defence against...Full story -
KDB agrees sale of Hanjin Heavy Industries
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) has reached a deal to sell off its controlling stake in Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC), one of the country’s most...Full story -
EU’s new military aid fund positioned to take off operationally in July
The co-ordination and initial use of the EU’s new foreign military aid programme, the European Peace Facility (EPF), will be closely aligned with the union’s military...Full story -
Taiwan reports progress in new indigenous fighter development
Taiwan is conducting research to indigenously develop a next-generation fighter aircraft for the Republic of China Air Force (RoCAF), Art Chang, president of the...Full story -
Martin UAV wins US Navy's Mi2 Technology Demonstration competition
Martin UAV and its V-Bat 128 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tail-sitting fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) beat L3Harris and its FVR-90 VTOL hybrid...Full story -
British peacekeepers complete first long-range patrol in Mali
The Long Range Recce Group (LRRG) the United Kingdom has contributed to the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has completed an...Full story