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East Asia and Pacific Region

Indonesian Navy’s Underwater Warfare Capability

October 25, 2020 GDC 0

The Indonesian Navy, also known as Tentar Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Laut (TNI-AL), operates two classes of submarines: The older Cakra-class Type 209/1300 vessels and the Nagapasa-class Type 209/1400 vessels. A Central Command links the three main […]

  • UK’s Tempest Fighter To Get A Brand New AESA Radar

    October 26, 2020 0
    The companies building the UK’s Tempest sixth-generation fighter aircraft have revealed some of the technological concepts that it will incorporate, including a radar system designed to handle as much data per second as a city. British Tempest [...]
  • Chinese Navy commissions first Type 054B frigate

    January 24, 2025 0
    As part of its efforts to modernize the naval fleet, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has commissioned its first Type 054B frigate. China launches first Type 054A/P frigate for Pakistan NavyDateAugust 23, 2020China’s Hudong [...]
  • Turkey Will Retire Russian-made S-400 SAM In Exchange For Turkish Return To F-35 Program

    September 27, 2024 0
    The Greek Kathimerini newspaper reported, citing sources, that in a bid to resolve the conundrum over Turkey’s acquisition of a Russian S-400 missile defense system, which led to its removal from the F-35 program, the [...]
  • British Special Air Service (SAS): Who Dares Wins

    November 19, 2021 0
    The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. The SAS was founded in 1941 as a regiment and later reconstituted as a corps in 1950. The unit specializes in [...]
  • Hugh mushroom cloud appears over Luhansk region Ukrainian drones destroyed Russian ammo depot

    September 28, 2023 0
    According to Ukrainian sources, a detonation occurred in a Russian ammunition depot on a factory site in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine. This reports the German news platform n-tv.de. Ukrainian ATACMS strikes destroyed [...]
  • Leonardo Company’s Proteus Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Flight.

    January 24, 2026 0
    British aviation history has been made with the UK’s first truly autonomous full-size helicopter completing its maiden flight, operating from Predannack airfield in Cornwall. Leonardo Set To Flight Trial New AW249 Attack Helicopter For Italian [...]
Americas

Lockheed Martin launches Hellfire missile from 10-foot cargo container.

April 2, 2026 0

Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that the U.S. defense giant successfully launched a Hellfire missile from its new Grizzly launcher — housed within a 10-foot cargo container. The Grizzly system incorporates design elements of Lockheed’s M299 […]

Europe

Spain signs Indra–Hanwha deal for K9-based self-propelled artillery systems.

March 27, 2026 0

Spain’s Indra Group and South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace on March 24 signed a binding agreement in Madrid to jointly develop new tracked self-propelled artillery systems for the Spanish Armed Forces, the companies said. The agreement […]

Americas

Aeon tests Zeus low-cost alternative to Javelin anti-tank missile.

March 26, 2026 0

Aeon conducted a test launch of its new Zeus shoulder-fired missile system at a ranch in East Texas, according to Rochefort Ventures CEO Kyle Bass, who announced the milestone on Friday. Bass wrote that the launch marked […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

North Korea Test Fires KN-25 600MM Multiple Rocket Launch System.

March 24, 2026 0

North Korea confirmed that twelve KN-25 600mm multiple rocket launch systems were used during its latest military test drill. The exercise highlights Pyongyang’s continued efforts to expand long-range precision-strike capabilities within its rocket artillery forces. […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Cyber breach at China’s National Supercomputer Centre shows brainless Chinese engineer copying the physical appearance of the HIMARS rocket artillery.  

March 20, 2026 0

The National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin appeared to have suffered a massive data leak of 10 Petabytes of internal data, including classified information. About two months ago, we saw a sales announcement on a dark […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Australia started manufacturing Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) missiles for HIMARS.

March 17, 2026 0

Australia has started manufacturing Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) missiles at Port Wakefield in South Australia, with the first batch expected by mid-March 2026. The move strengthens Australia’s sovereign strike capability and supply chain […]

  • Europe

    Azerbaijan using Israeli “kamikaze drones” in Nagorno-Karabakh clashes

  • Europe

    Russia lost its first Chinese-made all-terrain vehicles in Ukraine

  • Europe

    Dutch navy’s anti-submarine warfare frigates to enter service in 2029

  • Americas

    U.S. Navy Prepares for BALTOPS Baltic Sea Exercise in June

  • Europe

    Retired Turkish Army General Rebukes S-400 Purchase As Greece Seeks Approval For F-35

  • Europe

    Swedish Navy Receives HSwMS Gävle After Mid-Life Upgrade

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    IP Theft: China Copies Swedish Visby-class Corvette As New Ship Design For PLA Navy

  • Air Platform

    Leonardo AW159 Wildcat helicopter conducts first successful firings of Thales ‘Martlet’ Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM)

  • Americas

    Donald Trump Awards Australian Prime Minister Morrison “The Legion of Merit”

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Ukraine’s two $1000 FPV drones destroyed Russia’s S-350 Vityaz Surface-to-air missile worth $135 million

  • Europe

    U.S. Troops Are Training Ukrainian Troops in Poland

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Austal delivers 2nd Evolved Cape-class patrol boat to RAN

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Delivers Seventh Mogami-class Frigate to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

  • C4iSR

    South Korea unveils a cutting-edge Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) solution

  • Middle East

    Prime Minister Netanyahu Visits Rafael’s Iron Dome Manufacturing Facility in Northern Israel

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Sweden’s Gripen Test Fires Taurus KEPD Cruise Missile For Deep Strike Capability.

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    South Korean K2 Black Panther Is The Best Tank In The World

  • Defense Industry

    German government approves arms exports to Gulf countries

  • Anti-ship Missile

    Taiwan will deploy 1400 anti-ship missiles by 2026

  • Cyber

    Hackers Hacked United Aircraft Corporation Website

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Ukraine War: Myanmar Remains the Last True Friend of Russia in Southeast Asia

  • Europe

    A Russian Deserter Escaped With Machine Gun, Became Rambo And Fighting His Own War

  • Air Platform

    Iraq Plans to Buy 12 JF-17 Block III

  • Americas

    US Army Ordered PAC3 MSE Missiles

  • Defense Industry

    Top 100 Global Airborne Drone Manufacturers

  • Europe

    Ukraine’s Neptune cruise missile and drones destroyed Russia’s S-400 missile system and Novorossiysk oil terminal.

  • Americas

    Naval Group Launches Third OPV 87 For Argentine Navy

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    North Korea Tests New Hypersonic Missile ‘Hwasong-8’ Off East Coast

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Myanmar’s Junta Extends State Of Emergency

  • Europe

    Finland and Sweden To Apply For NATO Membership in May

  • Loitering Munitions

    The U.S. and Gulf States want Ukraine’s Bullet and Sting interceptor drones.

  • Europe

    Ukraine’s gamble in Bakhmut paid off, gaining territory, killing commanders, injuring top General and decimating 10,000 soldiers

  • Air Platform

    Russia’s PAK DA Bomber Is In Design Phase, report

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Royal Australian Air Force shifts training facilities to Australia

  • Europe

    Turkey decided to remove the S-400 missile system to re-enter the F-35 program.

  • Anti-ship Missile

    Poland to deploy Naval Strike Missiles to Protect Baltic Coast

  • Europe

    Fearing Coup: Putin Removes Major General Vladimir Seliverstov From His Position

  • Europe

    Raytheon delivers NASAMS II to Lithuanian Army

  • Middle East

    73 Percent of Iranians Want a Secular Government, 7.9 Percent of Iranian Women Want To Wear Hijab

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Qatar Deploys Patriot PAC-3 MSE Missile System.

  • Europe

    Turkish kamikaze sea drone sink ship in UAV-backed trial

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Satellite images reveal North Korea is constructing the largest warship ever

  • Air Platform

    Hellenic Air Force Inducts Dassault Rafale F3R Fighter Jets

  • Air Platform

    No IFF: Pakistan’s HQ-16 Missile Shot Down Its Own Mirage Jet, Proving Chinese Copycat HQ-16 Retained Buk Missile’s Characteristics

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Hanwha unveils new-gen K9A3 unmanned howitzer

  • Europe

    Ukraine War: Russia Lost Global LNG Export Markets By 15 Percent

  • Europe

    Trump Administration Imposed CAATSA Sanctions on Turkey

  • Europe

    Lacroix Defense awarded contract to produce naval decoy for Hellenic Navy

  • Europe

    GLONASS errors caused Russian cruise missiles to hit Russia’s Lipetsk region

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    RAN’s Collins-class Submarines to Receive Sonar Upgrade

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