Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Turkey Begins Final Assembly of National Combat Aircraft ANKARA --- As the construction process of the National Combat Aircraft, one of Turkey's most important defense industry projects, passed a critical stage, the fuselage and wing parts of the aircraft w... UK Picks Kongsberg NSM Anti-Ship Missile to Replace Harpoons Royal Navy frigates and destroyers will get a significant boost to their long-range precision strike capabilities following a new partnership between the UK and key NATO and Joint Expeditionary Force ... US Proposes to Replace Russian-Made Weapons in NATO Armies Athens has become the recipient of Washington's proposal to replace all Russian systems in the arsenal of the Armed Forces with others, of NATO construction. The complete independence of the Greek ... US Announces New $400M Military Assistance Package for Ukraine Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $400 million to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.... Pentagon Cautions Turkey on Escalating Syria Incursions "The Department of Defense is deeply concerned by escalating actions in northern Syria, Iraq, and Turkiye. This escalation threatens the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS’s years-long progress to degrad... PAC-3 Intercepts Target in Test of Remote Interceptor Guidance WHITE SANDS, New Mexico --- For the first time, the U.S. Army used a newly developed Lockheed Martin communication technology to help a PAC-3 missile intercept a cruise missile target. During the U... Northern Group Defense Ministers Meet in Oslo, Issue Joint Statement The British flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth was the setting for the Northern Group meetings. In the meetings, the security policy development in the Nordic areas, the securing of important infrastructure... Uzbekistan Orders 17 Airbus and ATR Airplanes in €815M Deal Uzbekistan will purchase 17 airplanes and two helicopters from France for a total of 815.3 million euros. The relevant trade agreements were signed during the official visit of the Uzbek delegation to... NATO Allies Test Air and Missile Defenses in Romania RAMSTEIN, Germany --- French MAMBA Surface-Based Air and Missile Defence system repelled a simulated air attack by Allied fighter aircraft in an exercise, November 23. Exercises such as this one en... China's J-15 Carrier Fighters to Get Domestic Engines: Report A newly produced J-15 carrier-based fighter jet was fitted with what seems to be a pair of China's domestically developed engines, according to an official media report on Wednesday, which marked the ... Final Archer SP Gun Delivered to Sweden’s FMV In November, FMV carried out delivery control of the 48th Archer piece at T&E's test site in Karlsborg. This means that the last of the artillery pieces ordered so far has rolled out of BAE Bofors and... Hungary to Buy Iron Dome Radar and NASAMS Air-Defense BUDAPEST --- "We are buying one of the most modern radar systems in the world, which is part of the layered defense system called the Iron Dome, and this is complemented by a missile system (the groun... Finland Completes XA-180 Armored Vehicle Upgrade The lifecycle upgrade of the XA-180 series vehicles brings performance far into the future. The goal of the modernization was to ensure the performance, condition and technical life cycle of Pasi c... Norway Orders Additional Counter-Battery Radars Defense Materiel signed an agreement with the Dutch Defensie Materieel Organisatie (DMO) on Wednesday to acquire a further three new digital radars for artillery location for the Norwegian Armed Force... Indian Navy Takes Delivery of New Stealth Destroyer Y 12705 (Mormugao), the second ship of Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyers being built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), was delivered to the Indian Navy on 24 Nov 22. The cont... NATO Deploys AGS Ground Station Outside Italy for the First Time RAMSTEIN, Germany --- For the first time, NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF) has deployed their Mobile General Ground Station or MGGS outside Italy testing the Force’s expeditionary cap... India Test-Fires Agni-3 IRBM from Abdul Kalam Island India carried out a successful training launch of an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-3 from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on November 23, 2022. The successful test was part of routine user... Slovakia Delivers Another Zuzana 2 Self-Propelled Howitzer to Ukraine Yet another one of the eight Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers (SPHs), ordered by Ukraine under a commercial contract with Slovakia's state-run joint stock company KONŠTRUKTA-Defence, has been deliver... Pentagon Updates List of $19Bn Military Aid Provided to Ukraine In total, the United States has committed more than $19.7 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration, including more than $19 billion since the beginning... |