In April the US Air Force (USAF) awarded Washington DC-based Rhea Space Activity (RSA) a Phase 1 contract for collecting and disseminating lunaspatial intelligence...

BAE Systems has been contracted to deliver an autonomous version of its Pacific 24 sea boat to support the UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) NavyX autonomy and lethality...

Hensoldt has revealed a new airborne jammer that forms part of a wider family of electronic warfare (EW) systems it is developing for the NATO electronic attack (EA)...

Boeing expects to sign up a brand-new operator of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, with the company noting only that it is in “the Pacific region” of the world.

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has launched the fourth of eight Daegu (FFX-II)-class guided-missile frigates on order for the Republic of Korea...

The French Navy’s first Suffren-class (Barracuda) nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), Suffren, has performed its first static dive test, marking the beginning of the...

Singapore and Canberra have signed a treaty that will allow the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to have access to new and expanded military training areas in Australia that...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is planning to start demonstrations in late 2020 of its Golden Horde networked collaborative weapons effort, one of the US...

News has emerged in French media of local companies facing problems fulfilling export contracts due to more stringent export regulations in Germany.

The Royal Navy (RN) announced on its website on 4 May that it and the US Navy (USN) have started training within the Arctic Circle. NATO surface vessels have for the...

Boeing Australia announced on 5 May that it has rolled out the first of three production-representative unmanned aircraft being built under the Royal Australian Air...

South Korea’s National Assembly has approved new legislation to “transform” the country’s approach to defence research and development (R&D).

The Pentagon wants a specific set of data from Lockheed Martin if it is to consider entering a performance-based logistics (PBL) arrangement for the F-35 Lightning II...

Based on lessons learned from fighting in the Donbass region, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is seeking new thermobaric rockets and has introduced new grenades.

There was a failed attempted unmanned boat attack off Yemen’s Gulf of Aden coastline on 3 March, the Saudi-led coalition announced the following day.

The Finnish Border Guard (FBG) is expecting to make a number of new acquisitions in the coming years, although rising operational costs continue to take a toll on the...

The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is to launch production of the Raytheon Miniature Air Launched Decoy – Navy (MALD-N), with a notification for an impending...

Germany will end its Tornado reconnaissance flights against the so-called Islamic State (IS) on 31 March, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 11 March after the...

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Sikorsky a USD525.4 million contract modification to manufacture 40 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the US Army and...

The Brazilian Army is to expand its ambitious and complex Integrated Border Control System (SISFRON) starting in 2021, the service told Jane’s on 3 February.