The French government has reported that orders for defence equipment jumped by 31.4% to EUR9.12 billion (USD10.26 billion) in 2018, an increase on 2017’s EUR6.94...

The US Army wants to field its first hypersonic missile battery by 2023, as well as a battery of Strykers equipped with 50 kW high-energy lasers by 2022, in a bid to...

Saudi Arabia has continued to acquire Soviet-type weapons and equipment that are not known to be used by its own armed forces, according to reports released by the UN...

The US Navy (USN) and US Marine Corps (USMC) mismanaged their backup aircraft and depot maintenance float allowance (DMFA), affecting the readiness of a portion of its...

The Serdar remote weapon station (RWS) developed jointly by Turkey’s Aselsan and Ukraine’s Luch Design Bureau has passed its final trials and is now ready to enter...

Qatar received its first batch of Dassault Rafale combat aircraft on 5 June, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced.

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s (RNZN’s) new hydrographic and diving support vessel has entered service, according to a statement issued by the government of New Zealand.

Ukraine’s defence industry has developed and begun building several new mortar systems, details of which were briefed at the recent Omega Mortar Systems Conference in...

An armed variant of Milrem Robotics’ THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) participated in the NATO ‘Spring Storm’ exercise held in Estonia from 29 April to 17 May.

The US Air Force (USAF) recently performed Boeing KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker testing with the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and the Lockheed...

Turkish pilots training in the United States to fly the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will have to leave the country by 31 July if Turkey...

The US Navy (USN) is designing modifications for its next Ford-class carriers to accommodate operational Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)...

Lockheed Martin has been awarded USD1.8 billion to continue Block 4 capability upgrades for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).

US troops are continuing to train El Salvadorian, Guatemalan, and Honduran military forces despite the Trump administration’s promise to cut aid to the three nations in...

The Belarusian Armed Forces have begun receiving the upgraded Polonez-M multiple launch rocket (MRL) system.

Rafael Advanced Defence System is in the final stages of equipping its SPICE 250 precision-guided stand-off glide munition with moving target detection and innovative...

The US Navy (USN) on 10 June awarded Sikorsky its first low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract for the VH-92A presidential helicopter.

A compact aircraft design and fast spinning rotor are a few of the technical designs that enable Schiebel’s S-100 Camcopter unmanned rotorcraft to perform in icy...

Germany and the Netherlands are using NATO’s biggest air defence exercise of the year, ‘Tobruq Legacy 2019’ (‘TOLY 19’), being held in Poland on 3–19 June, to prepare...

The Iranian military unveiled on 9 June a new surface-to-air missile (SAM) system named 15 Khordad: the Persian calendar date of an uprising in 1963.