The United Kingdoms Ministry of Defense is set to receive an additional £1 billion for anti-submarine warfare and cyber capabilities and Dreadnought program. “I will today provide an additional £1bn to the MOD to cover the remainder of this year and next……to boost our cyber capabilities……and our anti-submarine warfare capacity……and to maintain the pace of the Dreadnought programme to ensure Continuous At Sea Deterrence,” Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer said during his Budget presentation speech at the UK Houses of the Parliament Monday
The first indigenously overhauled Sukhoi Su-30MKI supersonic aircraft at an IAF base repair depot (BRD) was handed over to the Operational Squadron of the Indian Air Force (IAF) at Nashik on Friday. Air Marshal Hemant Sharma, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Maintenance Command, formally handed over the overhauled Su-30MKI fighter aircraft to Air Marshal H
North, South Korea and the UN completed the work of withdrawing military posts, armed troops and firearms from the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the buffer zone separating the two Koreas today. Earlier the area was de-mined under UN observation and declared mine-free
Disappointed at losing three large US DoD arms deals worth $12 billion to Boeing, Lockheed Martin is counting on a potential Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) sale to Saudi Arabia worth $15 billion to increase its sales and profits. The US Navy awarded Boeing a $2
Indonesia has indicated it wants to re-negotiate terms of payment for its participation in the joint KFX/IFX fighter jet project with South Korea. South Korea is developing the KF-X project as a successor to its F-16 aircraft and has roped in Indonesia to share the development cost in return for a fixed number of aircraft and technology
BAE Systems XTS Guard 5 cyber security software has demonstrated its ability to provide United States intelligence organizations with access to geospatial imagery and data from BAE Systems Geospatial eXploitation Products (GXP) Platform. The system ensures secure sharing between networks of various security classifications and sections
United States based Harris and L3 Technologies specializing in military communications and electronics, announced their merger on Sunday creating one of the biggest global defence firms. The merged entity—to be called L3 Harris Technologies Incorporated—will be the sixth-largest US defense company and one of the 10 largest in the world, with 48,000 employees and clients in 100 countries
South Korea's defense ministry today announced that it has put off the testing of it Long Range Surface-to-air interceptor missile (L-SAM) due to “technical reasons.” However, unnamed critics said that the test was delayed at the instruction of the presidential office as the Moon Jae-in administration wanted to avoid antagonizing the North amid a reconciliatory mood, the Yonhap News Agency reported
A production line to manufacture Apache Helicopters for the Qatari Amiri Air Forces was launched Saturday in Boeings US facility in Mesa, Arizona. Qatar had signed a contract to buy 24 Apache armed helicopters for 667 million in 2016
Operations of F-35 fighter jet belonging to United States forces and international partners have been temporarily suspended pending a fleet-wide inspection of a fuel tube within the engine of the aircraft, the F-35 Joint Program Office announced Thursday. If suspect fuel tubes are installed, the part will be removed and replaced