Defence`s Feeds

Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has proposed a defence budget of JPY5.29 trillion (USD47.8 billion) for fiscal year 2019 to put a stronger emphasis on three new defence domains – cyber, space, and electronic warfare (EW) – as part of the country’s emerging defence policy.

Milrem SIA has appointed as managing director Ugis Romanovs, who will help facilitate growth of the company’s new Latvian division. Taking on the role from the beginning of September, Romanovs will help expand the Estonian company’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services in

Montenegro unveiled the Mašan, its first domestically-produced armoured vehicle, in Podgorica on 29 August. The 4x4 vehicle is produced by Bijelo Polje-based Montenegro Armour Group (MAG), founded in 2017. The vehicle was presented to Montenegrin Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Ministry of

A Philippine Navy (PN) frigate ran aground near Half Moon (also known as Hasa-Hasa) Shoal late on 29 August during a routine patrol in the South China Sea. Colonel Noel Detoyato, chief of the public affairs office for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), was quoted by the state-owned

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received a new flight instrumentation kit designed by the Department of Defence’s (DoD’s) research and development arm – the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group – to facilitate non-intrusive testing and evaluation.

Raytheon BBN is leading an effort to develop an analytical ‘question and answer’ system that will be able to explain its own results. The Explainable Question Answering System (EQUAS) is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Explainable Artificial

The US Army will explore using Rheinmetall’s ADS active protection system (APS), among others, on its Stryker wheeled combat vehicles after determining that the Artis Iron Curtain APS was not a good fit. Rheinmetall Active Protection GmbH (formerly ADS Gesellschaft für aktive

Key Points Russia has announced a major naval exercise in the Mediterranean It has a missile cruiser, a destroyer, five frigates, three missile corvettes, and two submarines in the region The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) provided an explanation for a seemingly unprecedented build-up of naval

During the week following Russia’s annual Army 2018 defence show, held near Moscow on 21–26 August, news emerged that none of the fifth-generation conventional weapons that have been the centrepiece of the nation’s military modernisation effort will be taken into series production.

Americas Argentina WATCH FOR: Protests by Argentine shipyard workers in La Plata on 31 August Risk analysis: Workers at the Rio Santiago shipyard in Buenos Aires province, represented by the ATE Ensenada labour union, have called for protests and roadblocks in the provincial capital, La Plata, on

FOUR police officers were killed when unidentified militants opened fire on an escort party in the village of Arhama in Shopian district in India's Jammu and Kashmir state on 29 August, the Times of India reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The destroyer USS Jason Dunham seized a large arms shipment from a skiff in the Gulf of Aden on 28 August, the US 5th Fleet announced two days later. Jason Dunham located a dhow transferring covered packages to a skiff on 27 August and conducted a flag-verification boarding of the latter in

Boeing has been awarded a large-scale programme to develop and build the first unmanned aircraft for carrier air wings, besting rival bids from General Atomics and Lockheed Martin. The US Navy (USN) awarded Boeing a fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract on 30 August with a ceiling price of

The US Navy (USN) is working towards developing common unmanned surface platforms that could provide the service with augmented weapon-launching potential and logistics, as well as traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), Rear Admiral Ronald Boxall, USN Surface Warfare

The US Navy (USN) has set out top-level requirements for a non-lethal high-power microwave (HPM) weapon capable of disabling small high-speed craft powered by outboard engines. Being led by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD), the effort is intended to result in the design

Americas Brazil – 30 August 2018: In Rio de Janeiro, the police said that there were 731 cargo theft incidents in July 2018, a 19% reduction compared with the same month in 2017. Ecuador – 30 August 2018: In Quito, the FUT national workers’ federation held a protest to oppose the

Radom Air Show 2018 report. Last week, on Aug. 25. and 26., the Polish Air Force celebrated its 100th Anniversary, during a special Centenary edition of the Radom Air Show. Even though the occasion was quite spectacular, the event left somewhat a bittersweet taste with the audience. The Polish Air Force, the celebrant who had […]

Joint Strike Fighter is Still a Lightning Rod of Criticism, But Progress Continues. Photos and Video by Lance Riegle unless otherwise stated. Story by Tom Demerly and David Cenciotti. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program reached several developmental milestones in August 2018 despite ongoing criticism of the program’s costs and reported technical concerns. As the […]

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