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Defence IQ is an authoritative news source for high quality and exclusive commentary and analysis on global defence and military-related topics. Since being created in 2009, Defence IQ's online community and military forum has rapidly grown to over 92,000 defence professionals. Sourcing interviews and insights directly from senior military and industry professionals on air defence
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Procurement Map: Offshore Patrol Vessel and Surface Combatants Latin America

Tue, 28/04/2015 - 06:00
This year's OPVs and Surface Combatants Latin America 2015 event will explore partnership and business opportunities for global industry in the region. In particular, we shall examine topics intrinsic to the OPV and combat ship market such as shipbuilding capacity, systems design,
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Poland preparing to buy new missiles, submarines

Tue, 28/04/2015 - 06:00
Pola
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Norway inducts first CV90 IFV

Tue, 28/04/2015 - 06:00
Swed
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U.S. Army to keep armoured equipment on NATO's eastern border to counter Russian aggression

Mon, 27/04/2015 - 06:00
The head of the U.S. Army in Europe has elaborated on plans to keep armoured equipment on NATO's eastern border as a warning to Russia that force
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U.S. Army to keep armoured equipment on NATO's eastern border to counter Russian aggression

Mon, 27/04/2015 - 06:00
The head of the U.S. Army in Europe has elaborated on plans to keep armoured equipment on NATO's eastern border as a warning to Russia that force
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Why medical support operations begin and end with communication

Fri, 24/04/2015 - 06:00
Alongside the establishment of AFRICOM, the United States and other Western nations have placed greater focus on a “long war” against terrorism, which involves bolstering weak and failing states so that governments possess the security and public confidence to stave off gra
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Special Forces Technology: Most Wanted

Thu, 23/04/2015 - 06:00
The newest and most innovative infantry equipment often lands in the hands of the Special Forces first. While demands are often not vastly different to regular services primarily the need to reduce weight, size, power burden and cost there are a few specific technologies that are being
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The Key to Destroying ISIL is Information Warfare

Thu, 23/04/2015 - 06:00
Three crucial messages should guide America's fight against ISIS, reports James Farwell As battles wage in the Middle East, are governments investing as much in information as they are in kinetic operations? The worry mongering over I
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Cyber response solutions: Waiting in the grass

Mon, 20/04/2015 - 06:00
Italy-based Tiger Security caters to international organisations that are at a particularly high-level of risk from cyber attacks, including governments and militaries. Defence IQ spoke with CFO, Partner and Head of Business Development, Damiano Cimignolo, to find out what mak
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Terrorist groups are not terrorists. They’re violent transnational movements bent on creating a new world order

Mon, 20/04/2015 - 06:00
The creation of a new world system – not just a change in the current system – is arguably the raison d'être behind the rise in transnational terrorist threats. The

Hitting ISIL where it hurts

Mon, 20/04/2015 - 06:00
The functional and institutional nature of hybrid terrorist groups  reveals one of the key ways in which we can understand the changing dynamic of cu
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On the Throes of Transition Part III: Countering the Stereotype of a Tropical Paradise

Mon, 20/04/2015 - 06:00
This third installment of the ongoing bi-regional discourse themed “ On the Throes of Transition - Terrorism: Assessment, Analysis, Action ” is ap
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Urgent review of search and rescue operations needed as the Mediterranean migrant crisis worsens

Mon, 20/04/2015 - 06:00
Image: MOAS (the Migrant Offshore Aid Station) The humanitarian crisis in the Me
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While silence may be good politics it may no longer be sustainable

Fri, 17/04/2015 - 06:00
While studying Ambassador Ward’s article, Cuba and Venezuela: Assessing United States sanctions in the  Hemisphere , and thinking abo
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Analysing cyber security situations in real-time is key to neutralising the threat

Thu, 16/04/2015 - 06:00
Defence IQ recently spoke with Dave Palmer, director of technology at Darktrace, a rapidly growing cyber threat defence company based in the UK that recently raised $18 million from Invoke Capital, Talis Capital, and Hoxton Ventures, about the security challenges facing industrial con
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BAE Systems to modernise Dutch “go-anywhere” vehicles

Mon, 13/04/2015 - 06:00
Sweden’s BAE Systems (H&a
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Lockheed Martin wins Irving contract for Canada's Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships programme

Mon, 13/04/2015 - 06:00
Lockheed Martin Canada has been awarded the implementation subcontract by Irving Shipbuilding Inc. as command and surveillance system integrator for the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) new class of Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS). Lockheed
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Turkey buys KT-1T trainer aircraft from South Korea, indigenous programme questioned

Mon, 13/04/2015 - 06:00
Turkey is moving forward with plans to acquire 15 KT-1T basic trainer aircraft from South Korea for around $150 million, according to Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz reports Defense News. The government is importing the KT-1T as a stop-gap to meet its trainer
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