Ex-South Korean Anti-Espionage Officer Convicted For Smuggling Arms To Lebanon
A South Korean court has sentenced a former major to 18months in prison for smuggling strategic arms into Lebanon. The major was part of an anti-espionage military body, the Yonhap news agency reported Friday
Rolls-Royce To Provide MTU Diesel Gensets For UK's Type 23 Frigates
Rolls-Royce has won a €90 million worth contract to supply 48 MTU diesel gensets for UK Royal Navys 12 Duke-class (Type 23) frigates. The vessels were built between 1985 and 2002
Brazilian Senate Approves Gripen Financing Contract
Brazil's Senate has approved a $4.6 billion financing contract that took place last week with Sweden for buying 36 Gripen fighter jets for the countrys Air Force
Russian S-400 Missile Defense Systems Become Operational In Kamchatka Peninsula
Russian S-400 Triumph missile defense systems, which are capable of detecting air targets from more than 600 kilometres, has entered the service on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The S-300 missile defense systems that were deployed earlier reliably defended the airspace for over a quarter of a century, Sputnik International reported today
Asian Country Selects RADA’s Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar System
RADA Electronic Industries' Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR) system has been selected by an Asian country for evaluation purposes. The delivery of the MHR system will be immediate, the company announced Thursday
DCNS FREMM Frigate Tahya Misr Enters Egyptian Naval Service
The DCNS FREMM frigate Tahya Misr has joined a naval fleet of Egyptian Navy during the inauguration of Suez Canal expansion on Thursday. The frigate was delivered on June 23rd
Spain Approves US Reaper Drone Purchase
Spain has approved a proposal to buy four US Reaper surveillance drones worth a $27 million. The defence ministry has selected the bid from General Dynamics, which has a teaming agreement with Spanish engineering firm Sener, to supply it with four Reaper drones, a ministry spokesman said
Rheinmetall Defense Sales Up 18% in First Half 2015
Rheinmetall Defense sales rose by €159 million or 18% to €1,054 million in the first six months of 2015 (first half year 2014: €895 million). Adjusted for currency effects, the growth was 15%, the company announced today
Pakistan Blocks Some 90000 Fake IDs of Terrorists, Criminals
Pakistan has blocked thousands of fake computerized national identity cards (CNICs), issued by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), mostly to terrorists and criminals during the past five years. Some 26 fake CNICs were issued by NADRA in 2011, 493 in 2012, 6,000 in 2013, 22,000 in 2014 and 64,000 this year, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was quoted as saying by Pakistani news daily, Express Tribune today
Tomahawk A Contender In US Navy's Next-Gen Anti-Ship Missile Program
Raytheons Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) will be a possible competitor in the Navys search for a next generation anti-ship missile to replace the 1980s era weapons in the service. Set to start in Fiscal Year 2017, the contest for the Navys Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) Increment II seeks to replace the Navys decades-old inventory of Boeing RGM-84 Harpoons with more technologically sophisticated weapons
Russia To Disassemble Telecommunications, Control Equipment On Mistral warships
Russia will send an experts team to France in September to disassemble the telecommunications and control equipment installed on the Mistral class helicopter carriers. "A team of specialists is currently being prepared for the communications equipment dismantling from the helicopter carriers
Lockheed Martin To Produce Eight Production Representative Vehicles
Lockheed Martins Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) team are planning to produce about eight Production Representative Vehicles (PRVs) over the next few weeks. The PRVs are being assembled to reduce technical risk, optimize the advanced production processes at the Camden assembly plant, and to exercise and prepare the supply chain, the company announced Tuesday
Avio Secures €60M Orders from MBDA for ASTER 30 System
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China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...