ADAS 2024: Armed Forces of the Philippines Growing in Capability 25/09/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Philippines is accelerating its military modernisation in the face of continued disputes with China in the West Philippine Sea and rising global tensions. With… [read more]

Saab announces new munitions facility in Grayling, Michigan 24/09/2024 | Saab Press Centre Saab is moving quickly to increase U.S. munitions production capacity and meet the urgent needs of our customers, building on our decades-long relationship with the… [read more]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Cyclic Future 24/09/2024 | Atul Chandra Military rotorcrafts remain indispensable on the modern battlefield, but as conflicts in Afghanistan and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war have shown, the current-generation of helicopters in… [read more]

Lockheed Martin presents the ‘extreme range’ JASSM 24/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The AGM-158 Extreme Range (XR) is a development of the proven Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) family of munitions which has established itself as the… [read more]

Leonardo finalises the acquisition process of GEM Elettronica 24/09/2024 | CAROLINA PAIZS Yesterday, Leonardo finalised the acquisition process of GEM Elettronica, an Italian company based in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno) and specialising in the production… [read more]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Interview with Aeronautics 23/09/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Aeronautics has recently expanded its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) portfolio with two notable additions: the ORBITER 2 LM and the ORBITER 4 VTOL. These systems… [read more]

Analyzing the Wave of Israeli Air Attacks on Hezbollah 23/09/2024 | Pietro Batacchi As we partly anticipated on FW-MAG, Israel is capitalizing on the previous days' actions against Hezbollah. This morning saw the largest wave of Israeli air… [read more]

Ukraine: artillery munitions is the truly strategic (missing) aid 23/09/2024 | Igor Markic In a recent public release, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, stated that, between 6 and 14 August, Russian artillery has delivered… [read more]

USMC SLV soon in Australia for island-hopping testing 23/09/2024 | Fabio Di Felice The US Marine Corps will deploy one of its experimental ships, known as Stern Landing Vessel (SLV), in Australia for a series of tests with… [read more]

Russian-Chinese Air Maritime exercise OCEAN 24 in the Pacific 23/09/2024 | Fabio Di Felice The Russian military launched exercise OCEAN 24, a massive naval and air drill spanning across the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic… [read more]

Winds of war between Israel and Lebanon 19/09/2024 | Tommaso Massa The Israeli operation conducted on Tuesday 17th, with thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploding simultaneously in different areas of Lebanon (and Syria as well!), was followed… [read more]

Italy expands its Army modernisation roadmap 19/09/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Within the recently published DPP 2024-2026 (multi-year defence planning and procurement document), Italy has expanded its budget dedicated to land programmes in the largest modernization… [read more]

US Army procuring and evaluating new drones of all sizes 19/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The US Army has selected Anduril Industries and Performance Drone Works to provide Small Uncrewed Air Systems that will equip Infantry Companies within Brigade Combat… [read more]

The United Kingdom evaluates IBCS for its Ground Based Air Defences 18/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Last March, the UK had launched a Request for Information (RfI) about Command and Control (C2) solutions suitable for use within the Land Ground Based… [read more]

Industry Talks: the unique relationship between IWI and Meprolight 17/09/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone IWI (Israel Weapon Industries) and Meprolight share a close relationship as both are part of the same parent organization, the SK Group, a global defence… [read more]

Italy to procure 25 additional F-35s 17/09/2024 | Pietro Batacchi Within the recently published DPP 2024-2026 (multi-year defence planning and procurement document), Italy has decided on the acquisition of an additional 25 Lockheed Martin F-35… [read more]

Field trials for Patria NEMO mortar in the US 17/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli During the Maneuver Warfighter Conference in Fort Moore, Georgia, on 10 September, a US Army crew has demonstrated the capabilities of the NEMO automatic turreted… [read more]

Moog debuts RIwP on British Army vehicle at DVD 2024 16/09/2024 | Defence Media Ltd. Reading, UK, (September 16, 2024) – Moog will present its Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) – a unique weapon system that allows users to add and… [read more]

A closer look into Anduril's BARRACUDA new low-cost ammunition 16/09/2024 | Pietro Batacchi Anduril has unveiled BARRACUDA, a new family of expendable, scalable, highly modular 'autonomous aerial vehicles' that are already undergoing flight tests. The company is focusing… [read more]

DMC supports NP Aerospace in delivering additive manufacturing innovation to UK MOD 16/09/2024 | Chamois Consulting Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC), an industry leading production facility and additive manufacturing (AM) innovation hub, is working in partnership with NP Aerospace to deliver state-of-the-art… [read more]