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MEDIA reports on 1 March stated that a United Kingdom-based firm Solar UK was targeted by a purported Islamic State-linked cyber attack on an unspecified date in late February, Newsweek reported. The firm's website homepage was replaced with Islamic State propaganda. The Islamic State released a

A HOMEOPATHIC medicine practitioner and Shia Muslim - identified as 45-year-old Abdul Razzaq - was hacked to death by militants near his shop in an unspecified area of Bangladesh's Jhenaidah district on 14 March, the Dhaka Tribune reported. The militants identifying themselves as the Islamic State

MBDA announced annual results for 2015 on 17 March, revealing orders worth EUR5.2 billion (USD3.9 billion). This record high was achieved mainly thanks to the Rafale and FREMM contracts signed by Egypt and Qatar. For the fourth year in a row export orders, at EUR3.6 billion in 2015, have far

The first pre-production batch of Mikoyan MiG-35 (Fulcrum-F) multipurpose fighter aircraft will start undergoing flight tests this year, Sergei Korotkov, the CEO of the MiG Aircraft-Manufacturing Corporation (RSK MiG), said on 17 March. The RSK MiG CEO did not specify how many MiG-35 fighter jets

Key Points Closer military and trade co-operation between Turkey and Ukraine aims to balance Russian military presence in the Black Sea and to mitigate the downside economic risks caused by their respective hostilities with Russia. A bilateral FTA is likely by the end of 2016. Increased Turkish

Ukraine's Motor Sich is offering a number of indigenously developed enhancements for the Ukrainian army's Mi-8 MSB-V medium multirole helicopters, which are aimed at addressing threats posed by anti-aircraft weapon systems employed by pro-Russian separatist militants in the contested eastern region

Suspected militants from Islamic State's Wilayat Tarabulus attacked Zliten prison in Libya's Tripolitania region on 17 March, helping an estimated 60 inmates to escape the facility. There were no reports of casualties as a result of the attack, which reportedly involved the firing of a

Officials from China's defence industry are claiming that their latest airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system, the Kong Jing (KJ)-500, is an "indigenous" Chinese product. Statements to that effect by Xiong Qunli, chairman of one of the country's largest and fastest-growing

IN A STATEMENT released on 14 March, a police spokesman alleged that two Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) militants killed in the Bin Qasim Town area of Karachi in Pakistan's Sindh province on 12 March had been planning to conduct a suicide attack targeting the Drigh Road Railway station

The first Russian combat aircraft began leaving Syria on 15 March a day after President Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of some Russian forces in Syria. Videos released by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and various media channels showed three Su-34 strike aircraft, eight Su-25s in

President Vladimir Putin confirmed on 17 March that Russian special forces, artillery, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) units have been operating in Syria. In a ceremony held at the Hall of the Order of St George in the Kremlin, Putin presented medals and decorations to 17 service personnel,

Key Points Envoy translates existing software code and requires no hardware upgrades to the aircraft Raytheon is now developing Envoy to fit on a circuit card thus improving SWaP Raytheon has developed software that will enable legacy aircraft such as the F-18 Hornet to carry and deploy modern

Key Points If international efforts to control the migrant problem in the Aegean Sea are not successful, in excess of 300,000 refugees and migrants could be trapped in Greece by early June 2016, raising the risk of domestic social upheaval. The Greek economy is unable to bear the cost of policing

Swiss firm RUAG reported its results for 2015 on 17 March, with sales down 2% for the year compared to 2014 but earnings climbed 21%. The company said that ongoing embargoes on arms exports to the Middle East hampered sales, and the results were also impacted by improvement in the exchange rate of

Large numbers of personnel continue to flow into east Ukraine from Russia, according to the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States' mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In an address to the OSCE in Vienna on 17 March, the wording of which was obtained by

Russia's defence industry has started testing the 3M22 hypersonic missile of the 3K22 Tsirkon (lit: Zirkon) missile system, a defence industry source told news agency TASS on 18 March. "The hypersonic missile development programme has reached the stage of flight tests; they have begun,"

The US Marine Corps' (USMC) two F-35B Lightning II aircraft have conducted an aerial refuelling mission with a KC-130J Super Hercules, during a training flight over Southern California.

The German Navy's P-3C Orion aircraft has joined forces with Operation Atlanta's maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft (MPRA) in Djibouti.

A US Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine deployed to Submarine Group 10 fired three Trident II D5 missiles marking the conclusion of a follow-on commander's evaluation test (FCET).

Klein Marine Systems, a subsidiary of Mitcham Industries, has partnered with Elbit Systems to conduct structured mine countermeasure (MCM) exercises in the Mediterranean Sea.