Tbilisi-based aviation plant TbilAviaMsheni (TAM) is developing Georgia’s first surveillance and strike unmanned aircraft system (UAS), dubbed Project T-31, the company...

While unmanned and autonomous capabilities have proliferated in the air domain, land systems have not been so quick to adopt such new technologies. In a report first published to Janes subscribers in December 2020, Scott Alexander reports...

The US government has approved the founding of an F-16 Air Combat Training Center (ACTC) in Jordan.

German company MAN Energy Solutions announced on 10 February that it has secured a contract from shipbuilder Abeking & Rasmussen to equip the two mine-countermeasures...

The US Air Force (USAF) is to contract Sikorsky to upgrade its HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter to improve on the 2012 requirements...

Airbus Helicopters has entered into an agreement with Thai Aviation Industries (TAI) to support the sale and supply of rotary-wing aircraft to Thai military and civilian...

Saab’s Kockums business area, which mainly designs and builds submarines and surface vessels for the Swedish Navy, is looking to diversify its workload to improve its...

US President Joe Biden announced on 10 February the formation of a ‘China Task Force’ within the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide “a baseline assessment of...

Bell is offering its 429 GlobalRanger helicopter to Canada for its Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) programme.

India has earmarked about 230 military platforms, weapons, and systems for potential sale to ‘friendly countries’ as part of efforts to increase its materiel exports...

The Indian and Chinese armies have agreed to pull back from a bitterly contested region along their disputed Line of Actual Control (LoAC) in the Himalayas, where they...

The Japan Ministry of Defense’s (MoD’s) Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) has signed a JPY30.08 billion (USD287.3 million) contract to receive an...

Iraq’s fleet of F-16 multirole fighters have yet to be placed on US-led coalition air-tasking orders despite an improvement in availability due to the return of US...

Germany has flown the first Panavia Tornado combat aircraft to have its service life extended with the goal of seeing the wider fleet out to its 2030 retirement date.

Northrop Grumman has revealed its concept for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) LongShot programme to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...

The value of Indian defence exports over the past five years has reached INR344.13 billion (USD4.72 billion) with significant yearly increases achieved since 2015, new...

US President Joe Biden said on 10 February that he has approved a new executive order introducing new and expanded sanctions on Myanmar military leaders responsible for...

Eight vessels were officially commissioned by the Bahrain Naval Force (BNF) on 9 February, including RBNS Al-Zubara (80), formerly the UK Royal Navy’s River-class patrol...

The US Air Force (USAF) is considering starting new “Prime” small business outreach programmes for energy, microelectronics, and gaming technologies.

Increasing threats from smaller drones has the US Army on the hunt for a company to produce a high-energy laser prototype by April 2022 to shoot down the aerial threats....