The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) third Hobart-class air warfare destroyer (AWD) has set off for its combat systems trials, which will be conducted with the US Navy (USN).

Seoul and Washington have reached a tentative deal on sharing the costs of keeping about 28,500 US troops in South Korea.

The US Navy (USN) on 22 December 2020 issued Cobham Mission Systems a USD8.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to upgrade the oxygen concentrator system on the service’s...

The departure of thousands of foreign contractors from Afghanistan by 1 May, as stipulated in the February 2020 conditions-based US-Taliban agreement, may have a...

Philippine Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenzana has said that his country is currently planning to acquire only one battery of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles from...

South Korea plans to procure up to 36 additional attack helicopters to further boost the capabilities of the Republic of Korea Army (RoKA), defence officials told Janes...

United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has handed over the first Tupolev Tu-160 ‘Blackjack’ strategic bomber to be fitted with new engines, Rostec announced on 10 March.

Australia’s Department of Defence (DoD) has requested expressions of interest (EoIs) for the construction of a new airborne electronic warfare (EW)/intelligence,...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the UAE’s Edge have begun the first collaboration between Israeli and Emirati defence companies since the normalisation of their...

South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) revealed on 10 March that Seoul has agreed to a 13.9% increase in its contribution to the upkeep of about 28,500 US...

Foreign companies in India have formed more than 40 defence joint ventures (JVs) with local firms, India’s Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik has confirmed in...

Defence planners at Indonesia’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) have shortlisted four design options in a programme to procure follow-on vessels to the country’s Martadinata (SIGMA 10514)-class guided-miss...

The Indian Navy’s (IN) third licence-built Kalvari (Scorpène)-class diesel-electric submarine (SSK), INS Karanj, was commissioned into service at Naval Dockyard Mumbai...

The US House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has formed a special panel to identify threats to the US defence industry’s supply chain and recommend legislation to...

The United States has blocked Turkey’s sale of T129 combat helicopters to Pakistan, which will likely lead to the latter purchasing them from China, Turkish presidential...

Nexter Munitions is in the final stages of developing a new 120 mm armour-piercing fin-stabilised discarding-sabot (APFSDS) round called the 120 Shard, the company...

India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has achieved a major milestone in the development of an indigenous fuel cell-based air-independent...

Lockheed Martin is working to determine what caused an Extended Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) warhead to prematurely explode during an...

Saudi Arabia’s air defences appear to be coping better with long-range attacks on the kingdom, although they have yet to face a threat as challenging as the 14 September...

US Navy Admiral Philip Davidson, the commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), has warned that the “greatest danger” facing the United States in the...