| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases British Government May Cut Army by 20,000, Axe Royal Marine Brigade
[British] Defence chiefs have drawn up plans to slash the army by a quarter and reduce the Royal Marines to a bit part as part of Boris Johnson’s defence and security review. The drastic cuts, whic... US Sends B-52 Bomber Over S. China Sea as China Steps Up Naval Drills
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii --- One B-52 Stratofortress bomber from the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, took off from home station and participated in a maritime integ... Turkey Completes Flight-Tests of Roketsan's Atmaca Anti-Ship Missile
ANKARA --- Turkey's first indigenously produced maritime missile passed its latest long-distance test launch with flying colors, the nation’s top defense industry official said on July 4. The Atmac... Israel Launches Ofek 16 Spy Satellite
The Space Administration in the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) of the Israel Ministry of Defense and Israel Aerospace Industries have successfully launched the “Ofek 16” recon... French Minister Calls for Unlocking European Defense Funds
At a hearing before the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Defence on 2 July 2020, Florence Parly, [French] Minister for the Armed Forces, defined and reiterated the means that must be... Japan Mulls Strike Capability After Dropping Aegis Ashore
TOKYO --- Japan’s decision to scrap two Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defence systems means it must find other ways to defend a 3,000-kilometre archipelago along Asia’s eastern edge. Some policy m... UK MoD Pledges to Evolve Faster in the Years Ahead
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has met with the MOD’s senior leadership, challenging Defence to evolve faster in response to the emerging threats and opportunities brought by the rapidly changing post-... Rolls-Royce Faces Long Recovery After Deep Slump
Transport yourself back to another time, another, more innocent, world: January 2020. Warren East, chief executive of jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce, is losing a sympathetic but by this time well... Investigative Group Reports on Turkish Arms Deliveries to Libya
OpenFacto is proud to present its first long-form investigative report on detecting arms embargo violations using open sources techniques. “Turkey’s Shadow Arms Deliveries” focuses on six cases of... IRIS-T SLS Successfully Qualified by Swedish Army
In calendar week 25 and 26 the Swedish Army qualified its new GBAD system (EldE 98) including IRIS-T SLS missile launchers and interceptors made by Diehl Defence. Successful firings were carried out o... S. Korea May Launch First Military Satellite Next Week
South Korea's first military communications satellite could be launched into space next week, US-based websites on space launch schedules showed Monday. The Anasis-II satellite could lift off from ... US Navy Sends Two-Carrier Group to Demonstrate Commitment
SOUTH CHINA SEA --- The Nimitz Carrier Strike Force celebrated Independence Day with unmatched sea power while deployed to the South China Sea conducting dual carrier operations and exercises in suppo... CSIS Reviews Capabilities of J-20 Stealth Fighter
The Chengdu J-20 marks the first entry of a multirole stealth fighter into China’s armed forces. According to the Department of Defense (DOD), China views stealth technology as a core component in the... Serbia Unveils Six Chinese-Made CH-92A Armed Drones
The President of the Republic and the Supreme Commander of the Serbian Army, Aleksandar Vučić, today attended at the "Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlović" airfield in Batajnica the demonstration of new unm... US Navy to Test New SEAL Mini-Submarine Off Hawaii
HONOLULU --- U.S. Special Operations Command will soon conduct a first-of-its-kind test off Hawaii — the launch and recovery of a new SEAL commando minisub from a Virginia-class submarine — as the eli... Patria Demos Remote Operation of AMV 8x8 Armored Vehicle
The development of Patria’s Heavy Unmanned Ground Vehicles has reached a level where the Patria AMV 8x8 vehicle can be operated remotely beyond visual line of sight utilizing 5G and 4G networks. This ... Five NATO ASW Frigates Hunt Five NATO Submarines in ‘Ex. High North’
All five surface ships and three of the five boats taking part in NATO’s ‘High North’ submarine hunt mustered for combined manoeuvres and ‘photocall’ before knuckling down to the traditional game of c... RAF Typhoons Monitor Russian Aircraft with VIP Voyager
Typhoon fighter aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth have today been scrambled to monitor Russian long-range aircraft flying in international airspace north of Scotland. On this occasion, the Russian airc... Australia to Deploy Ships to SE Asia, Hawaii for Exercises
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) today begins a regional deployment to conduct exercises within Southeast Asia and Hawaii over the coming months. Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reyn... Kratos Awarded $30M in C5ISR Contracts
SAN DIEGO --- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has recently received approximately $30 million in contract awards for Command, Control, Computing, Communication, Comba... European Maritime Agency to Operate Drones in Baltic Sea
The Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) services for maritime surveillance will as of the 4th of July, under the command of Finland, support Coast Guard functions of Finland, Estonia and Sweden.... Corruption Probe Disarms Ukrainian SAM Brigade
State Bureau of Investigation officials in the city Khmelnytsky seized ultra-high frequency devices (klystrons) during an inspection at the air defense brigade of Ukraine's Air Force based on the ruli... MTU Aero Engines to Cut Up to 1,500 Jobs By End 2021
MUNICH --- Due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on international aviation, MTU Aero Engines AG plans to adjust its personnel capacities. By the end of 2021, the company aims to reduce capacit... | 
