South Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) is planning to domestically develop an electronic warfare aircraft and buy heavy helicopters for special operations. The Defense Project Promotion Committee approved a $1
A Chinese firm recently tested a type of portable electromagnetic riot gun during which it exhibited low noise, little muzzle flash and low recoil. The gun uses nine coils to accelerate projectiles, which are stored in a magazine behind the coils, Lei Fengqiao, an employee at Chongqing Jianshe Industry (Group) Co Ltd under the state-owned China South Industries Group Co Ltd, said in a program on government-owned China Central Television (CCTV) on Sunday
Russian Army's Buk medium-range air defense systems have destroyed over 60 targets during the combat operations in Ukraine, reported on Wednesday the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Russians have labelled the latest Buk-M3 as the "drone destroyer
Japan started constructing a Self-Defense Forces base on uninhabited Mage Island in southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Thursday. According to an environmental assessment report made public earlier today, this four-year project in the 8 Sqkm Island will include building runways and ammunition storage facilities
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) held a ceremony Monday at the Anápolis Air Base (BAAN) marking the beginning of operational activities of Gripen E (Gripen F-39) fighters by the First Air Defense Group (1st GDA). This milestone follows the flight test phase in Brazil that started in September 2020 with the arrival of the test aircraft in the country, and which were conducted at the Gripen Flight Test Center (GFTC) located at the Embraer plant in Gavião Peixoto
Ukraine's arms manufacturing consortium, Ukroboronprom has detailed how a U.S
Russia is reportedly planning to top up its drone fleet for $200 million with a fresh Iranian contract, after several imported drones were destroyed in the ongoing Ukraine war, reports say. Moscow secretly flew $141 million in cash and Western weapons seized in Ukraine to Iran in exchange for 166 drones around two months ago,
The shares of a number of Ukrainian enterprises which are strategically important for defense and a number of other private companies, including Motor Sich, are to be ‘forcibly nationalized. The companies - Ukrnafta, Ukrtatnafta, Motor Sich, AvtoKrAZ and Zaporizhtransformator - are associated with the tycoons Kostiantyn Zhevago, Igor Kolomoisky, Vyacheslav Boguslayev and Kostiantyn Hryhoryshyn
The UK Air Forces Royal Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft have been part of the force's largest ever mass firing of Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAM). Over the space of 10 days, pilots from eight different Typhoon and Lightning squadrons successfully launched a total of 53 missiles at Banshee target drones
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday imposing martial law in four illegally “annexed” Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Putin announced the signing of the decree at a meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation