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]

EU funded and equipped Ukrainian brigade in trouble 09/01/2025 | Igor Markic France is one of the countries that has spent the most on military assistance to Ukraine through the delivery of CAESAR self-propelled artillery, VAB and… [leggi la notizia]

Tomahawk Block V program progresses for both US Navy and UK 09/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli On 30 December 2024, the US Department of Defense has awarded Raytheon a contract worth $31,1 million for the supply of long lead components needed… [leggi la notizia]

GCAP: some industrial details emerge for production and work sharing 09/01/2025 | Marco Giulio Barone The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) aims to have an operational aircraft by 2035, with an initial investment of €8.7 billion already allocated. GCAP is… [leggi la notizia]

Augmented Reality to improve training output of HAWK T2 05/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The Royal Air Force, BAE Systems, Red 6 and DE&S have completed in-flight demonstrations of Red 6’s ATARS (Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems) augmented reality… [leggi la notizia]

2024 closes with significant milestones for the LUSV project of the US Navy 03/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project NOMARS (No Manning Required Ship) has completed an historic evolution at sea when the USV MARINER deployed… [leggi la notizia]

Growing British Army investment in drones seeing more programs launched and first firm orders 02/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli A £7.5 million order has been placed by the Ministry of Defence with British firm Modini Ltd for the supply of an unspecified number of… [leggi la notizia]

Vietnam to Diversify Defence Procurements 30/12/2024 | Mike Rajkumar (Reporting from Vietnam) The 2nd edition of the Vietnam International Defence Expo, in Hanoi (December 19-22) provided crucial insights into the nation’s future defence procurement plans. The importance… [leggi la notizia]