Nigeria employs its T-129 ATAK helicopters in COIN operations 02/12/2024 | Fabio Di Felice During his last visit to the new Nigerian Air Force (NAF) base at Umar Musa Yaradua Airport in Katsina, the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru… [leggi la notizia]

Bombardier delivers the first Global 6500 for the US Army’s HADES Project 02/12/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli On Monday 25 November, with a ceremony in Wichita, Texas, Bombardier Defense delivered its first Global 6500 business jet to the US Army, ahead of… [leggi la notizia]

Stealth Meets Sting: The DS8-BLACK SCORPION Combo 02/12/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone In a significant development announced on December 2, 2024, DRASS has entered into a strategic partnership with LEONARDO resulting in an enhanced version of the… [leggi la notizia]

New JF-17 PFX Breaks Cover at IDEAS 29/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The recently concluded International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) held in Karachi, Pakistan, revealed the existence of what appears to be a substantial modernisation of… [leggi la notizia]

Republic of Singapore Navy Decommissions CHALLENGER Class Submarines 29/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) decommissioned its last two CHALLENGER-class submarines on 25 November. The RSS CONQUEROR and RSS CHIEFTAIN were formally decommissioned from… [leggi la notizia]

Royal Thai Air Force Airbus Helicopters H225M Fleet Crosses 10,000 Flight Hours 29/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Royal Thai Air Force recently celebrated the milestone of 10,000 flight hours, accumulated across its fleet of Airbus Helicopters H225M multirole utility helicopters. The… [leggi la notizia]

KAI Completes 1,000 Test Sorties on KF-21 Prototypes 29/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced on 29 November that 1,000 test sorties had been completed on the various KF-21 fighter protypes. The KF-21… [leggi la notizia]

Ukraine: Russia attacks with missiles and drones and the advance in Donbas continue 29/11/2024 | Tommaso Massa Over the past week, Russian forces have launched an impressive number of GERAN 2 drones: since last Friday, there have been more than 700, with… [leggi la notizia]

Kubilius appointed as first EU Defence commissioner ever 29/11/2024 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) The European Parliament (EP) has appointed Andrius Kubilius as the first ever EU Defence and Space Commissioner on 27 November in Strasbourg to implement long-needed… [leggi la notizia]

German Navy concludes evaluation of BLUEWHALE underwater drone 28/11/2024 | Michele Cosentino In recent days, the German Navy announced the completion of an intensive two-week campaign to evaluate the capabilities of the BLUEWHALE autonomous underwater drone (AUV)… [leggi la notizia]

Red Cat and TEAL secure the US Army contract for the Short-Range Reconnaissance drone 28/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Red Cat, offering through its fully owned subsidiary TEAL the BLACK WIDOW drone, has been selected to supply the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR),… [leggi la notizia]

Steadicopter anticipates the renaissance of (unmanned) army aviation 28/11/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Steadicopter has recently expanded its product portfolio. The company's latest offering, the GOLDEN EAGLE HEAVY STRIKE (HS), represents a substantial leap forward in unmanned aerial… [leggi la notizia]

New deliveries (and customer countries?) for the Su-57 27/11/2024 | Andrea Mottola According to UAC - the Russian aerospace conglomerate that includes the main Russian aerospace companies (MiG, Sukhoi and Tupolev) -  the KnAAPO plant in Komsomolsk… [leggi la notizia]

Egypt's submarine ambitions 27/11/2024 | Fabio Di Felice The ambitions of the Egyptian Navy show no signs of slowing down. According to some African media reports, after significant investments in surface naval platforms,… [leggi la notizia]

New AUKUS partnership on Hypersonics 27/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli On 18 November, the 3 partner nations in AUKUS have announced the formation of the Hypersonic Flight Test and Experimentation (HyFliTE) Project Arrangement (PA) that… [leggi la notizia]

BAYRAKTAR TB-3 starts flight tests on ANADOLU LHD/LHA 26/11/2024 | Massimo Annati The Turkish drone BAYRAKTAR TB-3 carried out flight operations for the first time on board the LHD ANADOLU. The first trials took place on 19… [leggi la notizia]

New wave of defence cuts in the United Kingdom 25/11/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The early cuts, announced in Parliament by the Defence Secretary John Healey, came as an unpleasant although not entirely unexpected surprise, especially since the formal… [leggi la notizia]

Milrem and Texelis push forward electrification efforts in the land sector 22/11/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone The ground mobility sector is experiencing a significant shift towards advanced robotic and autonomous systems, with companies like Milrem Robotics, Soucy Defence, Textron Systems, General Dynamics… [leggi la notizia]

India Undertakes Maiden Hypersonic Test, Extends Defence Partnership with Japan 22/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar In what was a surprise announcement, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) announced late on 16 November, that it had successfully conducted a flight-trial… [leggi la notizia]

China Shows-Off New Large USV "Orca" 22/11/2024 | Mike Rajkumar A new Chinese large Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) was showcased at the recently concluded Airshow China. The Orca 500-tonne high-speed stealth USV features a trimaran… [leggi la notizia]