The Pentagon is expecting a three-month slowdown in major acquisition programmes execution, specifically with aviation and shipyards, as the novel coronavirus (Covid-19)...

Hexcel’s net sales and income fell sharply in the first quarter of 2020, as coronavirus caused plant closings and the continued grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX airliner...

Lockheed Martin’s net sales rose 9% to USD15.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020, while its net earnings were virtually unchanged at USD1.7 billion, the US-based...

On 17 April Taiwan’s Lungteh Shipbuilding held a keel-laying ceremony for the third and fourth ‘rapid minelayers’ on order for the Republic of China Navy (RoCN).

The Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) ordered 127 mm guns for the four Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) De Zeven Provinciën-class air defence and command frigates...

The Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN) is concentrating on maintaining operational readiness at sea as the service responds to the coronavirus crisis.

The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) Huon (Gaeta)-class minehunter HMAS Gascoyne is undergoing a refit at the Captain Cook Graving Dock on Sydney’s Garden Island...

Iran announced on 22 April that it had successfully launched a satellite into orbit earlier that day, breaking a run of failures that has plagued a space programme that...

With this week’s certification of the Lower Stage 5 elevators of the Advanced Weapons Elevator (AWE) system on aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the ship’s...

The Russian Land Force is to receive the newest RKhM-8 chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) reconnaissance vehicle this year, the Ministry of Defence...

Since 2012, there has been exponential growth in Islamist militancy in the Sahel. Beginning in northern Mali, attacks have now expanded to central Mali, Burkina Faso,...

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) in Western Australia has captured its first images of space, marking “a significant milestone for the Defence space project”,...

The Pentagon has officially begun a new programme to build a Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) to defend the United States against limited nuclear strikes.

Decontamination is the process of making any person, object, or area safe by neutralising, or removing chemical or biological agents on or around it. These operations...

The US Air Force (USAF) has identified 23 units and their respective space missions for a formal transfer to the US Space Force (USSF), the USAF announced on 31 March.

Australian firm DroneShield has released a new version of its wearable RfPatrol unmanned aerial system (UAS) detection device, with the latest system being smaller,...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has received the first two of three Cessna Citation Latitude aircraft – configured for flight inspection missions – ordered from...

The US Army is looking to acquire tethered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to laser-designate ground targets from stand-off distances.

The Royal Netherlands Navy’s (RNLN’s) four De Zeven Provinciën-class air-defence and command frigates (LCFs) are to be refitted with a new 127/64 LW Vulcano 127 mm...