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Americas

USAF pilot call sign ‘Banzai’ becomes first woman to fly F-35A stealth fighter into combat

June 14, 2020 GDC 0

America has now deployed its first female stealth fighter pilot into combat, the Air Force announced. Capt. Emily Thompson, call sign “Banzai,” made headlines after she became the first female to fly the F-35A Lightning II into combat. […]

  • Taiwan to Replace All F-5s Within Three Years

    December 8, 2020 0
    Taipei, Taiwan (GDC) — Taiwan’s defense minister said Friday that the Air Force will replace the 33 F-5 fighter jets at Taitung’s Zhi-Hang Air Base within three years, one day after a pilot was killed [...]
  • China To Export Reverse Engineered Tor SAM Named HQ-17AE

    March 9, 2021 0
    China has cleared for export a variant of the HQ-17A road-mobile, short-range air-defence (SHORAD) system known as the HQ-17AE, according to a 7 March report by the CCP run media Global Times. CASIC HQ-17AE Air Defense [...]
  • AN/TWQ-1 Avenger Air Defense System

    February 17, 2020 0
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  • How Does Chinese HQ-16 SAM Compare to Western Modern Anti-Air System?

    July 6, 2022 0
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  • Russian Navy’s USET-80 torpedo is floating off the coast of Severodonetsk

    October 17, 2021 0
    As part of one of the exercises conducted by the Russian fleet in the waters of the Barents Sea, the Russian military lost a torpedo. The incident became known after the torpedo was washed away [...]
  • Ukraine retakes the village of Robotyne, south of Orikhiv

    August 29, 2023 0
    Ukraine has confirmed it has captured a key village on the southern Zaporizhzhia front, the latest step in a gradual advance aimed at splitting the Russian lines that defend the overland route to Crimea. Ukraine [...]
Europe

Germany Purchases $5.4 Billion Worth of Israeli PULS Rocket Launchers.

May 29, 2026 0

Germany Advancing 5 Billion Euro Rocket Launcher Deal With Israel’s ElbitIf completed, the deal would include hundreds of rocket launchers and could increase Elbit’s order backlog by about 20 percent, strengthening the Israel-based defense contractor’s […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

The Features and Characteristics of South Korean K239 Chunmoo MLRS.

May 17, 2026 0

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Europe

Estonia Purchases Additional HIMARS Rocket Artillery from Lockheed Martin.

May 16, 2026 0

The Estonian Centre for Defence Investments has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin for the procurement of three additional HIMARS multiple rocket systems. The agreement also includes an investment of approximately $11 million into Estonia’s […]

Europe

Saab HEAT 758 Features Dual-Charge Warhead Inside New Carl-Gustaf Anti-Tank Round.

May 11, 2026 0

Saab is stepping up the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle’s anti-armor role with a new round designed to defeat heavily protected vehicles on the modern battlefield. The HEAT 758 features a dual-charge warhead meant to first damage […]

Europe

Roketsan unveiled the CIDA long-range anti-tank guided missile.

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East Asia and Pacific Region

South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace Unveils Next-generation K9MH Mobile Howitzer Artillery System.

May 6, 2026 0

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  • Europe

    Moldova enforced European Union sanctions on Russia

  • Europe

    Turkish first national frigate fires first missile from indigenous VLS

  • Air Platform

    Saab Group Renewed Attempts To Sell Gripen E Fighter Jets To Colombia

  • Middle East

    Biden Administration To Review Weapons Sale To Saudi Arabia And UAE

  • Air Platform

    Croatian Air Force Received Six Rafale Fighter Jets From France

  • Defense Industry

    U.S. State Department Approves Harpoon Test Kits For P-8I Neptune

  • Air Platform

    U.S. Air Force Wants AI-operated Autonomous Drones

  • Middle East

    Egypt to receive six Meko-200 Frigates from Germany

  • Europe

    Turkey transferred six F-16 fighters, twenty TB2 drones and eight T-129 attack helicopters to Azerbaijan

  • Air Platform

    Colombia To Purchase 16 Rafale Fighter Jets Worth $3.15 Billion

  • Air Platform

    U.S. Showcases F-35 Stealth Jets At Aero India 2023

  • Defense Industry

    Australian air force’s plan to buy $9 billion turboprop transport aircraft is simply a crazy idea

  • Air Platform

    Sweden Considers Sending Gripen ‘Sukhoi Killer’ Fighter Jets To Ukraine

  • Air Platform

    Declassified Patent of Su-57: Not A Stealth Fighter Jet

  • Europe

    Ukrainian artillery blew up Russian BM-30 rocket launcher system

  • Europe

    Poland Received First Batch Of Bayraktar TB2 Drones From Turkey

  • Loitering Munitions

    Rafael unveils Storm Shield EW suite to protect UAVs in contested environments.

  • Ballistic Missile

    Russia strikes Ukraine with North Korean KN-23 ballistic missiles

  • Infantry Weapons

    Israeli Army Fields World’s First Fully Automatic 155mm Howitzer

  • Europe

    Korean KAI Offers FA-50 as Slovakia’s L-39 Trainer Replacement

  • Air Platform

    US Air Force Tests SEAD Missions Using F-35

  • Africa

    Morocco set to purchase Turkish Bayraktar Akinci combat drones

  • Europe

    Russia’s Belbek air base near Sevastopol is no longer operable after ATACMS strikes

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    China Donates Type 035B Submarine To Myanmar

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Royal New Zealand Navy is struggling to manage its small fleet due to lack of funding

  • Africa

    Turkiye Delivers T129 Attack Helicopters to Somalian Army

  • Middle East

    Turkish Military Demonstrated Firepower Using Fighter Jets, Drones, EW and Artillery Neutralizing Assad’s Forces In Idlib

  • Europe

    Belgian military received the initial batch of Falcon armored vehicles

  • Europe

    Russia cannot build Icebreaker as Russian forces bombed Ukraine’s factory supplied components for Icebreaker

  • Africa

    Israeli BlueBird Aero Systems has inaugurated production site in Morocco to build loitering munitions.

  • South Asia

    Why Pakistan Surprised India Despite India Spends Billions On Its Air Force

  • Europe

    Ukraine destroyed Russia’s easy target T-90M main battle tank

  • Air Platform

    Airbus, Kratos Pitch Valkyrie Loyal Wingman for German Air Force

  • South Asia

    The U.S. Should Coordinate With EU, Australia And UK To Sanction Bangladesh RAB And DGFI

  • Europe

    Russia Conducted Several Trial Runs With Nuclear-capable Tu-95MS Bombers

  • C4iSR

    Su-57’s AESA Radar Is Yet to Pass Debugging Phase, Says Tikhomirov-NIIP Director General Yuri Bely

  • Europe

    Ukrainian Engineers Retrofit Light Rocket Launchers On Humvee And Ford F150 Truck

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Taiwan Shipbuilder Lays Keel for Navy’s New Air Warfare Frigate

  • Europe

    Ukraine developed unmanned submarine that can target Russian warship in 1000km range

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Australia Launched World-first UN Peacekeepers Training Program For Pacific Islands Nations

  • Central Asia

    Kazakhstan started building new artillery ammunitions plant

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Taiwanese Air Force scrambles F-16 again to warn off Chinese J-11 jets

  • Europe

    Russia’s Tanks and Armored Vehicles Are Useless in Actual Combat, Expert Opinion

  • Europe

    Ukraine and Turkey to Deepen Defense Cooperation

  • Europe

    UK, Turkey, Canada, Norway and Iceland are ready to contribute to EU efforts to boost Ukraine’s defense

  • Europe

    Ukraine just hit Russia’s Ropucha-class landing ship Konstantin Olshansky with a Neptune R-360 anti-ship missile

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    U.S. Transfers Cyclone-class Patrol Ships to Philippine Navy

  • Europe

    200,000 Military-age Russian Men Fled To Kazakhstan, Georgia, Latvia And Finland

  • C4iSR

    Ukrainian HIMARS artillery strike destroys Russian Command Post

  • Infantry Weapons

    Chinese HQ-22 (HQ-12 or KS-1) Surface-to-Air Missile

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