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
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) security forces are set to don the Security Forces NextGen Helmet 2.0 later this year
South Korea's Hanwha Group signed a conditional memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to acquire a controlling stake of 49.3% and managerial control of the shipbuilder
The United States has commenced a secret program to train Ukrainian pilots to fly A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft in an effort to provide battlefield support to besieged Ukrainian formations. The