Japan plans to submit a bill to the ordinary Diet session to be convened Friday that would allow supply of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) secondhand defense equipment to other countries for free or low price. The government intends to provide secondhand SDF defense equipment mainly to member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including the Philippines, which has a territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea
US officials are hoping that a new artillery warhead that would replace a cluster-bomb round could help eliminate unwanted casualties in the future. The M30A1 guided multiple launch rocket system alternate warhead recently debuted during a test fire exercise in Kuwait, US Army announced Tuesday
Russian Helicopters has completed deliveries of the first batch of multirole Ка-32A11BC helicopters, which are built at Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise. After the delivery of the first batch, two more helicopters will be handed over to the Chinese operators in 2017, the company said in a statement Thursday
A photo of a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Ilyushin IL-78 in-flight re-fueling tanker at the 360th Aircraft Repair Plant in Ryazan city most likely indicates that Russia would be refurbishing the PAFs IL-78 four-engine tanker. In a post written by a Russian aviation observer, the 360th Aircraft Repair Plant will begin refurbishing the IL-78s in May, and will complete the process by December 2017,
Fincantieri shipbuilding groups has won a contract from the Armed Forces of Malta for the upgrading of P61, an Offshore Patrol Vessel, built by Fincantieri over 10 years ago. The contract was signed by Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi, Commander of the Armed Forces of Malta, and Gian Battista Corbetta, Head of Maintenance, Refitting Overhaul & Conversion of Fincantieris Naval Services Business Unit
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems has won a $120 million contract to procure Technical Insertion 16 Acoustic-Rapid-Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) engineering services and the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS). A-RCI is a sonar system that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing through rapid insertion of COTS-based hardware and software, the serivice announced Friday
China's new nuclear submarines, whose images have emerged, are possibly able to carry 12 submarine-launched ballistic missiles with a range of over 11,000km (6,835m) The 'Jin' Type 094A has a large 'hump' concealing 12 submarine-launched ballistic missiles and hence are capable of striking the United States. The 'big waves' are believed to be China's new generation of intercontinental-range ballistic missiles, the JL-3, the
India has test-fired the Guided Pinaka rocket from Integrated Test Range (ITR) launch pad at Chandipur in Odisha on Thursday. The Guided Pinaka is a modified version of the Pinaka rocket, equipped with a navigation, guidance and control kit
Australias F‐35A aircraft has conducted its first ever in-flight weapons release during an exercise departing from Luke Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona on 14 December 2016. The GBU‐12, 500lb Paveway II Laser Guided Bomb, was employed by Australian aircraft A35‐002, during a sortie over the Barry M Goldwater Range (BMGR) just west of Luke AFB, the service announced Wednesday
Khanderi, the second of Indian Navys Scorpene class stealth submarine, was ‘launched paving the way for her sea trials. The submarine is expected to be delivered to Navy by the year end