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Nov 17, 2020, 16:45
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Gareth Jennings
The United Kingdom needs to devote more resources to defending its critical space-based interests, with the chief of the Royal Air Force (RAF) warning of the increasing...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:06
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Jeremy Binnie
The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) is holding a joint exercise with Sudan for the first time: a move likely to raise Ethiopian concerns about the growing defence ties between...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:04
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Victor Barreira & Gareth Jennings
Embraer Defense and Security will deliver two KC-390 Millennium airlifters to the Hungarian Air Force (HuAF) between 2023 and 2024, the Brazilian company announced on 17...
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Nov 17, 2020, 16:04
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Daniel Wasserbly
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested an SM-3 Block IIA interceptor against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)-class target for the first time on 17...
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Nov 17, 2020, 14:37
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Gareth Jennings
A team of United Kingdom and United States military leaders has been set up in a first-of-its-kind collaboration to take pitches from international technology firms on...
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Nov 17, 2020, 12:02
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Eric Randolph
The huge increase in the sale and transport of waste plastic has created lucrative and varied opportunities for unscrupulous businesses and organised crime groups (OCGs)...
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Nov 17, 2020, 09:07
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Pat Host
Martin UAV is developing a new version of its V-Bat mini vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will feature increased endurance and...
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Nov 17, 2020, 09:06
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Marc Selinger
US-based government services provider PAE has agreed to acquire American intelligence business Metis Solutions for USD92 million in cash, PAE announced on 16 November.
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Nov 17, 2020, 09:05
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Victor Barreira
The Brazilian Navy is exploring ways to modernise the Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais) and has unveiled a plan to merge three previous modernisation programmes...
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Nov 17, 2020, 08:58
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Victor Barreira
Nexter is joining the field vying to win the US Army’s towed howitzer replacement competition, and is proposing its CAmionÉquipé d’un Système d’ARtillerie (CAESAR)...
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Nov 17, 2020, 08:58
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Charles Forrester
Turkey’s Minister of National Defence (MND), Hulusi Akar, faced the country’s Plan and Budget Commission on 12 November to present the case for the ministry’s increased...
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Nov 17, 2020, 08:57
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Gerrard Cowan
DroneShield has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based optical system, DroneOptID, to its DroneSentry counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) suite,...
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Nov 17, 2020, 08:56
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Janes, the trusted global agency for open-source defence intelligence highlights that of the 11 budgets published in Asia since the onset of the pandemic, only 3 are showing spending decreases.
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Nov 16, 2020, 15:40
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Gareth Jennings
Austria and Italy are to co-operate on the procurement of military rotorcraft, with both European nations looking to work together to satisfy separate requirements.
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Nov 16, 2020, 14:27
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Nicholas Blanford
On 6 November, the US Department of the Treasury sanctioned Gebran Bassil, head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) – the leading Christian party in Lebanon and close...
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Nov 16, 2020, 14:26
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Gareth Jennings
Lithuania signed for four Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk transport and utility helicopters on 13 November, the country’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) announced.
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Nov 16, 2020, 14:26
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Gabriel Dominguez
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) put its Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft into service on 6 November, making it the first international partner to...
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Nov 16, 2020, 08:56
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Richard Scott
BAE Systems is continuing development of its private-venture Kingfisher gun-launched, multi-purpose carrier round, with plans now taking shape for firing trials with a...
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Nov 16, 2020, 08:56
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Carlo Munoz
The US Marine Corps has selected L3Harris’ Panther II Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) for satellite communications (satcom) operations, in support of the Marine...
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Nov 16, 2020, 08:55
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Nicholas Fiorenza
The United States plans to continue and improve military co-operation with Serbia, US ambassador to Belgrade Anthony Godfrey told Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and...
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