Defence`s Feeds

As part of a wide-ranging modernisation programme the Myanmar Air Force (MAF) commissioned 10 new aircraft on 15 December. Comprising both turbo-fan and turbo-prop transport aircraft as well as advanced jet-trainer/ground attack platforms, the latest acquisitions reflect the growing role played by

Thales and AMOG Technologies have teamed to carry out a study into the development of stealth technology for submarine periscopes and optronic masts, the Australian government announced on 20 December. Christopher Pyne, minister of defence industry, claimed that the teaming is another example of

Event On 13 December 2017, Ukraine’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said that UkrZaliznytsia (UZ), Ukraine’s state-owned railway company, “was considering” a total ban on all railway transportation with Russia, to be introduced at some point in 2018.

After completing the first full-scale testing of a rocket engine component under the Hydrocarbon Boost (HCB) programme, researchers at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are one step closer to addressing the country's reliance on Russian rockets for its space programmes. Additionally, AFRL

Serbia is interested in using specialised military overhaul facilities in Republika Srpska (RS), one of the two constitutional and legal entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on a permanent basis, the Serbian defence minister has said. Serbia is implementing a policy to develop RS enterprises and its

South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) and Ministry of Science and ICT (information and communications technology) have signed an agreement to collaborate on next-generation military technologies. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) calls for the two ministries to identify and

Airbus and Williams Advanced Engineering have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore ways in which they can collaborate on high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) and Formula 1 technologies. Airbus’ Zephyr HAPS unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is one of the focuses of the work,

Event The mayor of Misratah, Mohamed Eshtewi, was kidnapped on 17 December as he was being driven home from Misratah airport following an official trip. His corpse was later left outside a local hospital. The perpetrators of the attack have not yet been identified. Eshtewi had been vocal in his

The two primary contenders for Germany’s heavy-lift helicopter requirement are waiting on confirmation from the Bundeswehr that the project has indeed been signed off as reported. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin confirmed to Jane’s on 19 December that neither has received notification

Ammunition official Abu Ayoub and offensives administrator Abu Sulayman announced their defection from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's 'Badiya' branch and pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has begun modifying some 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters to enable them to carry the BrahMos-A (Air) supersonic cruise missile, and thus boost the aircraft’s long-range precision-strike capabilities. Official sources told Jane’s that the state-owned

At least nine people were killed and 56 others were wounded when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated their explosives targeting a prayer hall at Bethel Memorial Methodist church in the city of Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan province on 17 December, Reuters reported. Reports added that a

The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 19 December approved the introduction of two Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defence (BMD) systems to counter the growing threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. "North Korea's nuclear and missile

US science, technology, and services group Leidos has been contracted by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to build a second Sea Hunter-type Class III Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vessel (MDUSV) to support science and technology (S&T) advancement of autonomous technologies and

Eurofighters of the Luftwaffe’s Taktische Luftwaffengeschwader (Tactical Air Force Squadron, TaktLwG) 31 “Boelcke” in Nörvenich have gained an air-to-ground capability to deliver laser- and GPS-guided Guided Bomb Unit 48 (GBU-48) bombs, the Luftwaffe announced on 18 December.

On 18 December at 17:15 CET, a Polish Air Force MiG-29A jet fighter from the 23 Tactical Air Base crashed near Marysin village around 13 km from Minsk Mazowiecki airfield. Despite not ejecting, the pilot survived the crash and was found in the wreck and evacuated with only minor injuries. It was

On 16 December, the last intake of 250 members of the Polish territorial army, the Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej (WOT), were sworn in in Białystok after completing their basic training. It was the second such ceremony of the 1st Podlaska Territorial Defence Brigade. In addition to

Event Two rival Sahel jihadist groups – the Al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) – announced on 14 December that they were joining forces against counter-terrorism operations, following reports that their

The Qatari military unveiled its previously unseen Chinese-made Joint Attack Rocket & Missile systems (JARMs) on 18 December, when two launchers and two transporter-loader vehicles participated in the National Day parade in Doha. The JARM is promoted by the China National Precision Machinery

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 19 December that it had donated defence equipment to Tajikistan as part of an effort to modernise the Central Asia country’s armed forces. The military products, which included small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles helicopters,