France has begun the process for arming its General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with a weapon...

The US Air Force (USAF) is to buy a “limited number” of turboprop aircraft to satisfy the current phase of its Light Attack Experiment (LAE), the service announced on 25...

Finnish Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen has authorised the procurement of life-cycle upgrades for 139 of the country’s Patria XA-180 6×6 wheeled armoured vehicles to...

The US Air Force (USAF) hosted a heat pipe experiment on its most recent Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mission, which could help the service learn how to...

Naval Group has begun the manufacture of Amiral Ronarc’h, the first of five new Frégate de Défense et d’Intervention (FDI) frigates for the Marine Nationale (French...

Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards, a subsidiary of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), launched the type Project 23550 ice-class patrol ship Ivan Papanin on 25...

Raytheon Missile Systems and Saab Dynamics have completed an initial series of guided flight trials of the developmental Guided Carl-Gustaf Munition (GCGM) – the first...

China’s push towards greater civil-military integration in science and technology appears to be gaining momentum as reflected in the 20-22 September Military and...

The United States has authorised an upgrade to Japan’s fleet of Mitsubishi-Boeing F-15J Eagle fighter aircraft, with the State Department announcing its decision on 29...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on 31 October that it has withdrawn its forces from Aden in southern Yemen and handed over responsibility to Saudi Arabia: a...

Croatia has been cleared to buy two Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters to add to the two already set to be donated by the US government.

The Finnish Army announced on 25 October that it had received the last of 100 Leopard 2A6FIN MBTs, which were ordered from the Netherlands as Leopard 2A6NLs in 2014 and...

Taiwan has approved the procurement of 66 Lockheed Martin F-16V Fighting Falcon combat aircraft to add to those already received under an ongoing upgrade plan.

Rapidly growing operations and maintenance (O&M) costs are forcing the US Air Force (USAF) to request record budgets despite having an all-time low force structure, a...

Rheinmetall announced on 30 October that it had been awarded a EUR210 million (USD234.3 million) contract to supply its latest short-range air defence systems to an...

The US Air Force (USAF) has budgeted USD6.75 million in prize money that could be spread among nine competitors at its first-ever Hypersonics Pitch Day (HPD) on 7...

The first operationally-assigned Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) arrived in-country on 31 October.

Northrop Grumman has revealed that it has begun testing of engineering development model (EDM) hardware developed under the US Navy’s (USN’s) Surface Electronic Warfare...

An image released by North Korea’s state-run media shows that the weapon system the country tested on 31 October was the same ‘super-large multiple rocket launcher...

South Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) announced on 31 October that it has won a KRW246 billion (USD211 million) contract for the...