| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Six US Air Force F-35s Deploy to Middle East for First Time
AL DHAFRA Air Base, UAE --- The U.S. Air Force’s fifth-generation multi-role aircraft arrived for its first deployment to the Middle East on April 15. The F-35A Lightning IIs are from active duty 388t... Japan Plans to Recover Crashed F-35 Fighter
Japan's Defense Ministry is thinking of raising an Air Self-Defense Force stealth fighter, which crashed off northern Japan, once it has been found. The F-35 went down in the waters off Aomori Pref... US Approves F-16 Training for Taiwan, Confirming Imminent Sale
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to TECRO for the continuation of a pilot training program and maintenance / logistics support fo... India Tests Nirbhay Long-Range Cruise Missile
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) today successfully test fired indigenously designed & developed Long Range Sub-Sonic Cruise Missile “Nirbhay” from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), C... AVX and L3 Unveil Joint Proposal for Kiowa Replacement
NASHVILLE, Tenn. --- The AVX Aircraft Company and L3 Technologies announced today their innovative compound coaxial helicopter (CCH) design, which is competing for Phase 1 of the U.S. Army Future Atta... Japan Should Put F-35 Program ‘on Ice After Crash’: Asahi Shimbun
The recent crash of an Air Self-Defense Force F-35A advanced stealth fighter jet has raised the question of whether Japan should continue buying more of these costly warplanes from the United States. ... Two-Seat F-39 Gripen Fighter Passes Preliminary Design Review
Brazil’s Combat Aviation completes 74 years of history just as the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) achieves an important milestone in consolidating airpower with the development of the F-39 Gripen multi-pur... German Navy Touts MKS 180 Destroyer Program
ROSTOCK, Germany --- The German Navy plans the MKS 180 multi-purpose combat ship as an all-rounder. Mission modules will cover a wide range of missions - with superiority in naval combat the ultimate ... British Army Deploys Apaches to Estonia
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson bid farewell to Army aviators as they took off for Estonia, where they will be training alongside NATO forces working to reassure our allies and deter our adversarie... China Says Recent Cruise Around Taiwan Tests PLA's Joint Capability
BEIJING --- Senior Colonel Zhang Chunhui, Spokesperson for the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), made remarks on the PLA naval and air forces’ recent cruise operat... Saab Receives US Navy Order for Sea Giraffe AMB Radars
Saab has received an additional order for the Sea Giraffe AMB naval radar, designated AN/SPS-77 by the U.S. Navy, for installation on the U.S. Navy’s newest Littoral Combat Ships LCS 36 and LCS 38. Th... Indian Cabinet Approves Phase 4 of GSLV Space Launcher
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved ongoing GSLV continuation programme Phase-4 consisting of five GSLV flights during the period 2021-2024. The GSLV P... Sikorsky-Boeing SB1 Defiant Presented at AAAA
We’d like to share an update on the Sikorsky-Boeing SB1 Defiant helicopter as provided today at the Army Aviation Association of America annual summit. Defiant achieved its first flight on March 21... Pratt Wins Additional $202M for F-35 Lot 14 Engines
United Technologies Corp., Pratt & Whitney Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is awarded $201,915,947 for modification P00004 to the previously awarded advance acquisition contract (N00019-18-C-1021... Indonesia Adding Two More Amphibious Landing Ships
Indonesia continues to expand its amphibious capability with the awarding of an IDR360 billion ($25.5 million) contract to local shipbuilder PT Bandar Abadi for production of two additional landing sh... Thales, UK MoD Faulted for 2017 Crash of Watchkeeper UAV
The Panel concluded that the cause of the crash was aerodynamic stall due to inaccurate air speed being used by the FCS within the VMSC. This air speed was calculated by the VMSC, which was reacting t... BAE Unveils Protection System for Armored Vehicles
BAE Systems unveiled its 360 Multifunction Vehicle Protection (MVP) Sensor as part of the company’s integrated vehicle protection system (VPS) suite, which provides improved visibility, situational aw... BCT Soldiers Will Help Decide the Army's Future Tactical UAS
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Al. --- The Army's new Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) concept is driving modernization efforts, and includes the Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems (FTUAS). Recently, the Army an... UK and India Strengthen Defence Ties with New Agreement
The UK is set to strengthen defence ties with India through a renewed Memorandum of Understanding, Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced. At bilateral defence and security equipment talks in... Final Royal Navy Helicopter Returns from Oman
The last Royal Navy helicopter to fly on maritime security operations in Oman has returned to the UK after a ten-year mission. Operation Chobdahar has seen Royal Navy helicopter crews support Oman’... USAF Claims ‘Firsts’ in Global Cyber Exercises
SAN ANTONIO, Texas --- Air Forces Cyber Airmen, acting in their role as Joint Forces Headquarters-Cyber (Air Force), concluded a series of global exercises March 26, 2019. “These exercises taught u... US Defense Contract Spending Bounced Back in 2018
Defense Acquisition Trends, 2018: Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back is the latest in an annual series of report examining trends in what DoD is buying, how DoD is buying it, and whom DoD is buyin... S. Korea Claims 9th Position in Defense Technology Ranking
Defense technologies of South Korea were assessed to be the world's ninth most advanced as of last year, and about 80 percent of the US levels, a state-run military research agency said Tuesday. Ac... MD 969 Helicopter Fitted with Common Launch Tube System
MESA, Ariz --- MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) will feature an enhanced combat aircraft – its MD 969 Twin Attack Helicopter – at the 2019 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit (formerly AAAA), April 14 –... New Zealand Orders Cubic Command and Control Capability
SAN DIEGO --- Cubic Corp.'s Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division was awarded a contract from the New Zealand Ministry of Defence to deliver Command and Control (C2) capabilities to support ... US Army Concludes Training for Gray Eagle Extended Range
SAN DIEGO --– The U.S. Army has completed its New Equipment Training (NET) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky for the MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range. The training covered new maintenance procedures, manua... Lessons of the War in Ukraine for Western Military Strategy
When Russian intervention forces occupied the Crimean peninsula in February 2014 in a coup de main, NATO was still committed in Afghanistan. After more than ten years of counterinsurgency and stabiliz... Lockheed PDAS Pilot Visual System Flies on Bell V-280
NASHVILLE, Tenn. --- Lockheed Martin's Pilotage Distributed Aperture Sensor (PDAS) system took flight for the first time aboard the V-280 Valor, Bell Helicopter's next-generation tiltrotor aircraft in... IAI Unveils New OPAL Battlefield Network
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has launched OPAL, an innovative solution that connects between all platforms in the battle arena, manned and unmanned alike. OPAL is based on forming a decentralized... | 