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Air-Launched Weapons

The USAF Selected Raytheon’s Missile for Long-Range Standoff Weapon Capability

April 21, 2020 GDC 0

The US Air Force (USAF) has ended its Long-Range Standoff Weapon (LRSO) development competition early, issuing a sole-source contract to Raytheon. Raytheon was competing with Lockheed Martin to design and build the service’s stealthy long-range, […]

  • South Korea indirectly sent 330,000 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine

    February 11, 2025 0
    South Korea’s “indirect” provision of 155-mm artillery shells for Ukraine this year has made it a larger supplier of ammunition for the war-ravaged country than all European countries combined, The Washington Post (WP) reported Monday. [...]
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pushes for Western warplane ‘coalition’

    April 11, 2023 0
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Poland would help form a coalition of Western powers to supply warplanes to Kyiv, as his fighters continued to defend their eastern bastion of Bakhmut in the face of relentless [...]
  • Boeing’s Loyal Wingman UCAV Taxis For The First Time

    October 23, 2020 0
    Boeing’s Loyal Wingman combat drone has taxied under its own power for the first time, carrying out several ground maneuvers at speeds of up to 14 knots (16 mph, 26 km/h) and stopping on command. Boeing Australia [...]
  • UK, Turkey, Canada, Norway and Iceland are ready to contribute to EU efforts to boost Ukraine’s defense

    March 18, 2025 0
    Close coordination between the European Union and some key non-EU partners continues, now that confidence in the historic U.S. ally and its umbrella protecting the West is waning. In the aftermath of the extraordinary European [...]
  • US Army awards Oshkosh $1.54 billion for FHTV fleet upgrade

    November 19, 2024 0
    Oshkosh Defense, LLC, a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation, has been awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command – Detroit Arsenal (ACC-DTA) to continue delivering and modernizing the Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles [...]
  • The Philippines Plans To Buy Saab’s Gripen Fighters In 2022

    August 14, 2021 0
    The US has approved the sale of 12 F-16s to the Philippines, hotting up a battle with Saab’s Gripen. Almost simultaneously, the PAF loses a Black Hawk helicopter. Philippines Signs Memorandum of Understanding With Sweden [...]
Infantry Weapons

Elbit Systems PULS Rocket Artillery Precision, Modular and Universal Launching System for Battlefield Dominance.

April 28, 2026 0

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East Asia and Pacific Region

Philippine Army Test Fires Israeli-made ATMOS 155mm Howitzer Boosting Long-Range Strike.

April 27, 2026 0

The Philippine Army has conducted its first live firing with its new Israeli-made ATMOS 155mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer during Exercise Salaknib 26, a joint U.S./Philippines military exercise, bringing a faster and more mobile long-range strike […]

Infantry Weapons

Israel uses the Roem howitzer in its first combat strikes in Lebanon.

April 24, 2026 0

The Israel Defense Forces has used its new Ro’em self-propelled howitzer in combat for the first time, firing the system during artillery strikes in southern Lebanon. Units from the 282nd Artillery Brigade brought the wheeled […]

Europe

Turkey test-fires the KORAOK short-range anti-tank missile.

April 22, 2026 0

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East Asia and Pacific Region

Australian Army successfully test-fired the first domestically manufactured HIMARS.

April 16, 2026 0

Australia test-fired the first domestically manufactured GMLRS missile from a HIMARS launcher at Woomera Test Range, South Australia on April 9, 2026. The government committed $320 million to integrate Australian suppliers into GMLRS production at […]

Infantry Weapons

China delivers FN-6 MANPAD and HJ-12E anti-tank missiles to Iran.

April 15, 2026 0

US intelligence indicates China delivered new air defense systems to Iran, CNN reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments. According to intelligence outlined in the CNN report, Beijing transferred shoulder-fired FN-6 […]

  • Air Platform

    Airbus VSR700 prototype performs first autonomous free flight

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Children Of Myanmar’s Military Asked Their Father To Quit Their Position

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    USS Alexandria heads towards western pacific

  • Europe

    BAE Systems Delivers First CV90 Support Vehicles For Norwegian Army

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Turkey To Produce Missiles Components And Ammunitions Locally

  • Defense Industry

    Spanish Sascorp To Unveil Amphibious UGV At FEINDEF 2021

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Australia pledges $2.7 billion to progress nuclear submarine shipyard build.

  • Defense Industry

    Boeing Awarded $1.17 Billion Contract To Produce Harpoon Anti-ship Missiles For Taiwan

  • Europe

    Swedish Gripen fighter jet intercepts a Russian Kilo-class submarine.

  • Europe

    U.S. Considers Supplying Deadly HIMARS Rocket Artillery To Ukraine

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Ukrainian HIMARS artillery rockets humiliate Putin by destroying prized S-400 SAM

  • Air Platform

    Saab delivers aft section of T-7A trainer for testing

  • Middle East

    Russia helped Yemeni Houthi terrorists with British and American cargo ships tracking data

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Thailand Test-fires Multi-calibre Israeli-made D11A Artillery Rocket System

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    How America and NATO Will Kill S-400 and S-500 Surface-to-air Missiles?

  • Uncategorized

    NASAMS and Patriot are super advanced than Russian Buk, S-300 and S-400 missile systems, UAF says

  • Middle East

    U.S. Sending Carrier Strike Group Near Israel And Will Supply Ammunitions

  • Europe

    New European Union Embargo Will End Russia’s Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Aluminum Markets

  • Air Platform

    Turkey Purchased Six Prototype KAAN fighter Jets

  • Central Asia

    Armenia Turns Away From Russia And Towards The U.S., Amid Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

  • Air Platform

    India Canceled 48 Mi-17 Choppers Deal with Russia, Amid Poor Performance in Ukraine War

  • C4iSR

    French Navy Tests E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Aboard Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier

  • Africa

    Algerian Air Force Will Replace Yak-130 Aircraft With Aero L-39NG Advanced Jet Trainer Amid Yak-130’s Flight Control System Issues

  • Air Platform

    Rafale will have a strategic advantage over Sukhoi fighters: Air Chief Marshal Dhanoa

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles left in the dark for two and half years about ADF’s war preparedness

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Germany delivers new Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine

  • Europe

    Vladimir Putin’s Power Weaken After Wagner Mercenary Group’s Armed Rebellion, President Zelensky Says

  • Europe

    Poland purchases 2,506 FGM-148F Javelin missiles and 253 Javelin Command Launch Units.

  • Middle East

    Israel Army Deploys Troops Near Syrian Border To Create Buffer Zone

  • Americas

    The US Navy to order next-generation frigate FFG (X)

  • Air Platform

    Lockheed Martin’s F-35 sales compared to Tesla sales in Europe

  • Europe

    Russia May Run Of Kalibr Cruise Missiles In January 2023 If It Continues To Mass Strike

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Uighurs: The Darkest Chapter Of Human History Since Nazi Concentration Camps

  • Air Platform

    Leaked Document Shows Russia’s Rostec Falsified Performance Data for the Zhuk-ME Radar in Indian Navy’s MiG-29K.

  • Anti-ship Missile

    The underperforming Indian Brahmos missile was sold because of China, not because of its performance

  • Europe

    Leaked audio calls revealed Russia suffered huge losses in Kharkiv offensives, 83th airborne brigade and 350 armored vehicles wiped out

  • Europe

    Russia’s former defense minister Sergei Shoigu’s corruption case witness found dead

  • Air Platform

    Armenia considers French Rafale jets and rejects the underperforming Su-30MKI jets due to Russia’s failure to defend Armenia.

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    AUKUS Deal: U.S. Congress Passes Legislation Allowing Transfer of Nuclear Submarines to Australia

  • Air Platform

    Philippine wants to buy T129 but Turkey can’t get an export license

  • Europe

    Italy to purchase 1050 Rheinmetall Lynx infantry fighting vehicles under $18 billion program

  • C4iSR

    Ukrainian forces blow up Russia’s counter-battery radar

  • Air Platform

    Australian Army Welcomes Two More Chinook Heavy-lift Helicopters

  • Europe

    Poland Buys M1A2 Abrams Tanks To Replace PT-91 Tanks

  • Air Platform

    French Rafale Conducts Maritime Exercises with French Navy’s Warship Forbin

  • Europe

    Dead Bodies Of Russian Soldiers Litered In Luhansk Region As Russian Didn’t Bother To Repatriate Corpses

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Taiwan Says It Will Shot Down PRC Drones If It Enters Into ADIZ

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Northrop Grumman Anti-Radiation Missile Enters Full-rate Production

  • Americas

    Pentagon Approves Long-range Tomahawk Cruise Missile for Ukraine.

  • South Asia

    India sends MiG-29K to Ladakh Border

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