Indonesia has tested various missiles, submarine rockets, surface and underwater torpedoes during its biennial exercise conducted by its Navy in the Java Sea. This year the event involved 39 warships of various types, eight aircraft and 7,500 personnel
The Javelin Joint Venture team signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Indias Tata Power to explore co-development and production of the Javelin anti-armour missile system. As part of the LOI, the Javelin Joint Venture (JJV) and Tata Power SED will create a strategy to co-develop and produce the Javelin missile system and integrate platform mounts to meet Indian requirements
The US air force is likely to replace its aging T-38 Talons jet trainer with new Northrop Grummans T-X prototype. T-38, designed in the 1950s, is the first supersonic trainer aircraft in the world
The Javelin Joint Venture team, a partnership of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, have successfully demonstrated Javelin missiles ability to engage targets beyond its current 2.5 kilometer range requirement during a series of ground vehicle launch tests
The first Strategic Sealift Vessel (SSV) ordered by the Philippines defense ministry from Indonesia will be delivered next month. M Firmansyah Arifin, the President director of the Shipbuilding Company PT PAL Indonesia was quted as saying by Antara News Tuesday that the first SSV christened Tarlac will be delivered in May after the final touch on the ships hold
Estonian Defense Forces will receive €818 million of the existing defence budget for the next four years to buy new weapon systems and other equipment that include new sidearms, unmanned aircraft, and long-range anti-tank systems. The Defence Forces' tender budget for the next four years is €818 million
India might clear a host of defense deals with Israel ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modis visit to Tel Aviv later this year. The pacts include acquisition of 164 laser designated pods, Litening-4 for the Indian Air Force (IAF) Su-30MKI and Jaguar fighters and 250 Spice precision stand-off bombs capable of taking our fortified enemy underground command centers
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) claims to have saved more than P765 million (US $16 million) in defense procurement in 2015, double the savings recorded last year. In a statement, AFP Procurement Service chief Brig
UAE plans to buy 100 units of tank boats from Indonesia as part of a defence cooperation deal signed during President Joko Widodos visit to Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Indonesian firm Pindad is currently working on manufacturing the tank boat which consists of a high speed boat with a 105mm canon mounted on it
Estonia will be receiving its first Javelin anti-tank missile system at the end of this week. “More systems and missiles will arrive in the coming weeks, which can be used for live fire exercises after the training is complete,” Lieutenant Toomas Pärnpuu, who is leading the operation to bring the systems to Estonia was quoted as saying by Estonian Public Broadcasting Thursday