Defence`s Feeds

Americas The New Zealand Defense Force has finalized the sale of four retired Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules aircraft to American aerial firefighting company Coulson Aviation for $9 million. The deal, announced on April 11, marks a new chapter for the venerable aircraft that were officially retired from military service earlier this year. The aircraft will be prepared for flight and flown to Coulson’s Maintenance Base in Thermal, California by a commercial crew over the next few months, where they will undergo substantial upgrades and conversion to firefighting tankers. Bell Textron, based in Fort Worth, Texas, has received a contract extension worth about $14.6 million to continue supporting H-1 military aircraft. This extension covers the fourth and fifth years of a long-term agreement that originally included five optional one-year periods. The contract is a firm-fixed-price agreement, meaning the price won’t change. It was awarded without competition, following specific government rules that allow for sole-source contracts when only one supplier is considered suitable. The support will continue until April 13, 2027, for the US Marine Corps. The funding for the project will come from the defense budget for the years 2025 through 2027. The contract was issued by the […]

Between Yerevan and Baku, the battle for influence is in full swing, with disinformation campaigns being waged by both sides. Meanwhile, the traditional allies and opponents of both countries are caught in the crossfire. [...]

Riyadh has big plans for its future naval industry and is reaching outside its borders to build it. Intelligence Online has learned that the Saudi authorities poached Cezary Cierzan, a former director of Polish defence group Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) [...]

France - DGSE speeds up clearance procedures to boost recruitmentAt a time when French intelligence services are struggling to recruit, [...]

The trial begun in January of the French-British national Martin Ryan, who was arrested in Baku on 4 December 2023 [...]

A recent spate of clashes across Syria has not deterred Damascus from cultivating business and diplomatic ties. The government led [...]

It was on page 16 of an internal document from [...]

The closing sentences of the final indictment on 31 March by the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office calling for a criminal [...]

Americas Collins Aerospace, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been awarded a $33.5 million order under a previously issued basic ordering agreement. The contract supports the replacement of the obsolete Control Display Navigation Unit (CDNU) 900 with the updated CDNU-7000 series for the US Navy’s C/KC-130T aircraft. Work will be carried out in Cedar Rapids and is scheduled for completion by December 2027. The full contract amount will be funded by Fiscal Year 2025 Navy aircraft procurement funds, which will be obligated at the time of the award. These funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was not competitively awarded. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, located in Patuxent River, Maryland, is managing the contracting activity. Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey, received a $23.8 million contract modification to provide cooling systems and AEGIS combat system support equipment for U.S. Navy and allied ships under the Foreign Military Sales program. If all options are used, the total contract could reach $36.1 million. The work will be done mostly in New Jersey and partly in Florida, and is expected to finish by May 2030. The contract is funded by the U.S. Navy, Canada, and […]

In the heart of Baku, the Winter Park Plaza business centre bustles with activity. Apart from foreign businessmen, including members of the German-Azerbaijani Chamber of Commerce and the German international cooperation agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), one finds [...]

Though they might be called the same thing from one service to another, the allowances and bonuses paid out to [...]

One, Najib Mikati, is a billionaire and prominent Lebanese political figure, the other, Riad Salamé, is in prison after running [...]

Karachi-based Universal Smart Military Systems (USMS) is one of many small private defence companies in Pakistan favoured by the country's [...]

Americas Austal USA has christened the US Navy’s sixth Navajo-class towing, salvage, and rescue vessel, the USNS Billy Frank Jr. (T-ATS 11), in Mobile, Alabama. The ceremony is part of a 10-ship development program to replace the force’s Powhatan-class ocean tugs and Safeguard-class rescue vessels, which have been operational since the 1980s. The new system was named after a Nisqually tribal member and Korean War veteran awarded the Albert Schweitzer Prize for humanitarianism, Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom for more than three decades of service to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Fairbanks Morse Defense and South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore potential collaboration on future international naval programs, the companies announced today. The agreement, signed during the Sea Air Space conference, marks the latest example of growing cooperation between the US maritime sector and major shipbuilders from South Korea and Japan. These partnerships align with the US Navy’s ongoing effort to bolster the domestic shipbuilding industrial base by encouraging international investment and strategic collaboration. Middle East & Africa General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Israeli defense contractor Rafael to manufacture a new […]

A detailed report and warning published on 9 April issued by the Five Eyes' major technical intelligence agencies (National Security [...]

They sat quietly behind their national intelligence director (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, at the Annual Threat Assessment Congressional hearings in late March. Joe Kent had been named as Gabbard's chief of staff only hours earlier in the wake of The Atlantic's [...]

The Israeli investment strategist and art collector Ofar Levin is asking a US court to compel the Florida-based businessman and [...]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s policy on Taiwan is being shaped by the discreet Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute [...]

The preliminary investigation opened by the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office for "espionage for the benefit of a foreign power" and [...]

It is now just a matter of days before the government's promised unit led by a "permanent staff" to fight [...]