Anduril announces Columbus, Ohio as the location of Arsenal-1, its new large-scale factory 21/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli A high tech start-up from Silicon Valley, Anduril has quickly become a recurring, important name in the field of drones and autonomy and now the… [leggi la notizia]

GRAVEHAWK: the mystery air defence system from the UK for Ukraine 20/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The UK has provided updated information about the assistance it is providing to Ukraine and communicated the start of deliveries of a mysterious ground-based air… [leggi la notizia]

New details - and confirmations - for the US DDG(X) programme 20/01/2025 | CAROLINA PAIZS During the 37th National Symposium, organised by the Surface Navy Association and held in Washington D.C. from 14 to 16 January, some news emerged and… [leggi la notizia]

Five A-29 SUPER TUCANO for Uruguay, the point on deliveries 20/01/2025 | Tommaso Massa On 14 January 2025, the Uruguayan Ministry of Defence exercised its option for 5 A-29 SUPER TUCANO aircraft, as part of a contract previously signed… [leggi la notizia]

The production of the B61-12 tactical nuclear bombs is complete 17/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli On December 18, 2024, the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) completed the Last Production Unit (LPU) of the B61-12 Life Extension… [leggi la notizia]

Silos for ballistic missiles and/or underwater drones for the Israeli DRAKON submarine 16/01/2025 | Michele Cosentino In mid-November 2024, at a ceremony in Kiel, the name DRAKON was officially given to the last Israeli submarine. Although the event was confidential, a… [leggi la notizia]

Indian Air Force eyeing kamikaze drone based Anti-Swarm Drone Systems 16/01/2025 | Mike Rajkumar India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) recently issued a Request For Information (RFI) for the procurement of a Kamikaze Drone Based Anti-Swarm Drone Systems (KD-ASDS). Swarm… [leggi la notizia]

MQ-9 operations from dirt airstrips for the AFSOC 16/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli In a significant first for an aircraft that has been in service and hard at work for 20 years, the MQ-9A REAPER has operated from… [leggi la notizia]

KAI’s Amphibious Attack Helicopter Completes Maiden Flight 15/01/2025 | Mike Rajkumar Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) announced on 15 January, that it had completed the succesful maiden flight of its prototype amphibious attack helicopter (MAH) in December… [leggi la notizia]

Indian Navy Boosts Combat Edge with New Inductions 15/01/2025 | Mike Rajkumar India’s Navy commissioned three combatant platforms into service on 15 January, in a first for the service. INS NILGIRI, the lead ship of the PROJECT… [leggi la notizia]

Project COOKSON: a long-range UK strike boat for Ukraine 15/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The UK MOD has announced it will be holding a Project COOKSON Challenge Session on Wednesday 22nd of January 2025 in London and has invited… [leggi la notizia]

Is the number of Russian UMPK bombs dropped on Ukraine declining? 14/01/2025 | Igor Markic For the past two years or so, the Russian Air Force has been using glider bombs developed from ordinary drop bombs in Ukraine and deployed… [leggi la notizia]

MBDA makes ROXEL a fully-owned subsidiary 14/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli MBDA has announced that ROXEL, strategic supplier of rocket motors and energetic, is being made a wholly-owned subsidiary after the Group has completed the acquisition… [leggi la notizia]

Deadlock breaks, Joseph Aoun new President of Lebanon 14/01/2025 | Pietro Batacchi After more than two years of stalemate, with one office remaining vacant, Lebanon has its new President, the Commander of the LAF (Lebanese Armed Forces),… [leggi la notizia]

Ukraine: the Russian advance in Donbas continues, while Kiev's counter-attack in Kursk gets stuck 14/01/2025 | CAROLINA PAIZS Since the second half of November, there has been a significant escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. This increase in war intensity is not accidental,… [leggi la notizia]

South Korea’s LIG Nex1 to Work on Next-Generation MANET System 13/01/2025 | Mike Rajkumar South Korea’s LIG Nex1 has announced that it has inked an agreement for a rapid demonstration project of 'Brigade-Level and below Mobile Ad-hoc NETworking (MANET)… [leggi la notizia]

Japan Pursuing Large AMRAAM Buy 13/01/2025 | Mike Rajkumar Japan will proceed with a massive Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) purchase following the recent U.S. State Department approval for the sale of up to… [leggi la notizia]

Chinese Supplied FK-3 SAM Systems Operational with Serbia 13/01/2025 | Mike Rajkumar The Chinese-made FK-3 Surface to Air Missile (SAM) Air Defence (AD) system, an export version of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited’s (CASIC) HQ-22… [leggi la notizia]

New Submarines for Turkey 10/01/2025 | Michele Cosentino On 2 January 2025, during the customary weekly press conference, a spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Defence announced the first steel cuttings for three… [leggi la notizia]

First out-of-laboratory tests for UK-built quantum atomic clock 10/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The UK Government has announced that the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has concluded a historic first test campaign with a UK-built optical atomic… [leggi la notizia]