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Baglietto to build fast attack craft for Italian Navy
Baglietto Navy, the military division of Italian yacht builder Baglietto, has been awarded a contract by Fincantieri on behalf of the Italian Navy to build two fast...Full story -
Venezuelan Coast Guard patrol ship sinks following collision
The Venezuelan Coast Guard’s third coastal patrol ship (Buque de Vigilancia de Litoral - BVL) Naiguata (GC 23) has sunk following a collision with a passenger ship...Full story -
USN conducts more successful EMALS and AAG tests on carrier Ford
The US Navy (USN) launched an F/A-18F Super Hornet off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) on 22 January, the first full afterburner...Full story -
USAF to upgrade 176 Guard and Reserve C-130H airlifters
The US Air Force (USAF) is to upgrade the avionics of 176 Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules transport aircraft operated by the Air National Guard (ANG) and the Air Force...Full story -
Thales UK marketing SquadNet soldier radios with frequency-hopping
Thales UK has added a frequency-hopping capability to its SquadNet mesh networking soldier radio and revealed this at the SMi Future Soldier Technology conference in...Full story -
China showcases SAR-equipped BZK-005 UAV in military led firefighting operation
China's People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Central Theatre Command has released images of an in-service BZK-005 medium-altitude long endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial...Full story -
Boeing takes over UK Attack Helicopter Training Company
Boeing has acquired Leonardo’s stake in the Aviation Training International Limited (ATIL) partnership.Full story -
DARPA issues BAA for OpFires Phase 3 Integrated Weapon System design
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Tactical Technology Office (TTO) on 5 June issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Phase 3 of the...Full story -
Northrop Grumman moves to LW30 PROX qualification, M-ACE CUAS testing
Northrop Grumman Defense Systems has completed US government testing of its programmable Light Weight 30 mm Proximity Sensing Ammunition (LW30 PROX) round, and is moving...Full story -
NRL's multifunction RF testbed demonstrates antenna sharing and pattern capabilities
Northrop Grumman and the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated simultaneous multifunction radio frequency (RF) resource management and antenna sharing...Full story -
Taliban “insider” attack demonstrates group's strength and commitment to continue operations targeting Afghan government forces
At least 27 Afghan soldiers and police officers were killed when Taliban militants assaulted an Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) base in the southern...Full story -
USAF to get new ops centre at Al-Udeid
The US military is set to build a new consolidated squadron operations facility at Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base, a solicitation released via the US government’s Federal...Full story -
US and Taliban reach ‘agreement in principle', says US special envoy
US and Taliban representatives have reached an ‘agreement in principle’ regarding the conditions for a drawdown of US troops in Afghanistan, US Special Representative...Full story -
French Army begins receiving VT4 Standard 2 4×4 vehicles
Arquus (formerly Renault Trucks Defense) in April delivered the first of 1,200 VT4 4×4 light tactical vehicles in Standard 2 configuration to French armed forces. The...Full story -
Elbit Systems to provide TF/TA systems for RoKAF's future KF-X fighter aircraft
Israel’s Elbit Systems announced on 6 February that it has been awarded a contract by Hanwha Systems to equip the Republic of Korea Air Force’s (RoKAF’s) future KF-X...Full story -
Trump authorises steps towards creating ‘space force'
US President Donald Trump authorised steps towards creating a space force on 19 February. Initially, however, it will resemble more of a corps similar to the US Marine...Full story -
IAI announces new Mini Harpy loitering munition
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced a new tactical loitering munition called Mini Harpy on 18 February.Full story -
CENTCOM says Iranian MANPADS fired at UAV
Iranian personnel attempted to disrupt US surveillance of one of the two tankers that was attacked in the Gulf of Oman on 13 June by firing a man-portable air defence...Full story -
UK sets out vision for ‘Intelligent Warship' technologies
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is soliciting proposals for novel concepts aimed at integrating ‘intelligent systems’ into future warships.Full story -
Industry bidding to develop US Army's Next Generation Squad Weapon prototypes
The US Army is moving out with development and fieldling of two Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) variants with plans to award three prototyping contracts by the end...Full story