Australia's defense ministry announced Friday that the future British warships will likely feature home-made radars developed by local firm CEA Technologies. According to the announcement made during the Under Secretary of State for Defence Procurement of UK, Harriett Baldwin, visit to Adelaide today, the British Government will conduct a capability study to fit CEA Technologies ‘CEAFAR radar to British ships and it will begin early next year
Russias Southern Military District troops continue to receive new samples of armament, military and special hardware such as T-90 tanks, T-72B3 tanks, BMP-3 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV), BTR-82A Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs). The SMD are one of 40 military units that have been rearmed and more than 100 military bases have been provided with modern weapons, Russian MoD said in a statement Wednesday
Russia has set up sixteen air defense regiments rearmed with advanced S-400 Triumf air defense systems in the last five years, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Gen. Valery Gerasimov said
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made a commitment of $200 million to upgrade Nulka active missile decoy systems on existing ships. Nulka system would help defend Australia from the threat of anti-ship missiles that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft and land, Turnbull said
Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) and PT PAL Indonesia have delivered the second SIGMA PKR class frigate to the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) on Monday. The SIGMA 10514 PKR class is a multi-mission platform equipped for anti-ship warfare (AShW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-air warfare (AAW)
UK based Cohort SEA has recently won an order to provide Torpedo Launcher Systems (TLS) for two new frigates of the Philippines Navy and is providing TLS and weapons handling systems for Combatant Ships under construction for Malaysia. This follows the supply of a TLS for the Royal Thai Navys latest frigate, which was built by DSME in South Korea
Warplanes of the Iranian Air Force have conducted ‘carpet-bombing of mock enemy positions amid the aerial maneuvers in the central province of Isfahan. Flying at low altitude, Irans Sukhoi-24 and Phantom aircraft practiced the bombardment technique, which features dropping a large number of bombs on enemy targets in an area with the aim of causing 'uniform' destruction
Iran unveiled new advanced radar system on Monday during a ceremony with Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami in attendance, Tasnim news agency reports. Dubbed “Afaq” (horizons), the radar is capable of monitoring and tracking vessels at a distance of up to 200 kilometers, adding that it can also track aerial targets, defense minister said
Swedish aerospace company CybAero has signed an agreement with Skyworks Global, an American company that focuses on the design and development of high performance gyroplanes. Skyworks will provide CybAero with a perpetual license to their gyro technology intellectual property
India and Russia will likely sign a contract estimated $4 billion for the purchase of four missile-carrying frigates, soon. Called Project 11356, Official sources told Hindu Business Line that the contract to be signed between the two nations would be based on the “two plus two formula, wherein two frigates will be built in Russia and sent to India, whereas another two will be built at the Goa Shipyard with assistance on technology transfer”