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Air Platform

China’s FC-31 Carrier Based Fighter Jet Shortcomings Impede PLA Navy’s Operations

May 28, 2025 GDC 0

Like China’s other jets, the FC-31 has shortcomings that keep it from matching its US counterparts. China was plagued by engine problems, as apparent in the recent Kashmir skirmish, when one of its J-10Cs’ engines […]

Air Platform

China’s J-20 and J-35A Fighter Jets Are Far From Stealth Jets

November 13, 2024 GDC 0

The new J-35A fighter jet is Airshow China’s star. Every two years, the southern city of Zhuhai showcases Beijing’s civil and military aerospace sector. The J-35A is lighter than China’s existing model, the J20, and […]

Air Platform

China Plans to Export FC-31 Fighter Jets, But Where is the Buyer?

April 22, 2022 GDC 0

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  • Bulgaria selected Lürssen to build two multimission corvettes for Bulgarian Navy

    March 5, 2020 0
    The Bulgarian government has selected German shipbuilder Lürssen over Fincantieri of Italy to build two multi-role corvettes for the country’s navy, Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov announced on 27 February during a visit to Varna. Lürssen [...]
  • BAE Systems demonstrates new version of US Marine Corps’ combat vehicle

    July 8, 2022 0
    U.K.-based BAE Systems published the photo of a new version of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) armed with a medium-caliber turret. BAE Systems Delivers First Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV-30) To U.S. Marine CorpsDateOctober 20, 2024BAE [...]
  • Ukraine’s Fire Point unveiled a pan-European anti-ballistic missile defense project called Freya.

    May 20, 2026 0
    Ukrainian defense company Fire Point has joined an anti-ballistic missile coalition and unveiled a pan-European ballistic missile defense project called Freya, presenting a system architecture built around a domestically developed interceptor missile and designed to [...]
  • No Picture

    Japan Set To Become Largest Defense Spender In Indo-Pacific Region

    September 7, 2022 0
    Japan is set to approve what could be its biggest increase in defense outlays since the end of the war, putting it on a path to become one of the world’s top military spenders. Japanese [...]
  • U.S. Official Confirms M1 Abrams Tanks To Be Delivered To Ukraine In April

    January 27, 2023 0
    For months, US officials balked at sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, insisting they were too complicated and too hard to maintain and repair. Overnight that abruptly changed. Ukraine’s desperate pleas for tanks were answered with a sweeping, [...]
  • Safran Awarded Contract to Supply 1,000 JIM Compact Multifunction Infrared Binoculars for Bundeswehr.

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East Asia and Pacific Region

Taiwan’s Army Fires HIMARS Rocket Artillery in an Anti-invasion Drills.

June 10, 2026 0

Taiwan’s military on Wednesday fired its new mobile HIMARS rocket system, which is widely used by Ukraine, simulating an attack ​on an invading Chinese force and demonstrating its ability to “shoot-and-scoot” by avoiding ‌counter strikes. […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Australia fires its first homegrown AS9 Huntsman self-propelled howitzer.

June 8, 2026 0

Australia fired its first domestically built self-propelled howitzers during live-fire training last week, completing the journey from a production line in Geelong to live rounds downrange in a matter of months — a timeline that […]

Americas

Canada Purchases 26 HIMARS Rocket Artillery.

June 5, 2026 0

The Government of Canada said it has finalised a government-to-government agreement with the United States for the acquisition of long-range missile capability for the Canadian Armed Forces. The Government of Canada said it has finalised […]

Americas

U.S. Navy purchases Israeli soldier-portable SMASH 2000LE fire control systems.

June 4, 2026 0

An Israeli fire control technology company has now secured contracts with all four major branches of the U.S. military, completing a sweep across the American armed forces that took less than a year. Smart Shooter […]

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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  • Middle East

    Hezbollah Fired Qader-1 Ballistic Missiles At Mossad Headquarters

  • Europe

    UK to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine

  • C4iSR

    Thales Unveils Ground Observer 20 Radar that Detects Micro-UAV and Small Ground Targets

  • Air Platform

    U.S. Air Force’s MH-139A Helicopter Enters Developmental Testing Phase

  • Europe

    Royal Navy To Upgrade Tomahawk Cruise Missile To Block V Standard

  • Europe

    Ukrainian Soldiers Find New Way To Use Javelin ATGM Busting Wagner Group’s Bunker In Bakhmut

  • Air Platform

     U.S. Air Force’s F-15E Strike Eagle Deploy GBU-31 Bunker-Buster Bombs Against Hardened Targets in Iran.

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Japan to manufacture long-range precision fire artillery rocket.

  • Air Platform

    Slovenia purchased Leonardo C-27J Spartan tactical transport aircraft

  • Air Platform

    New Zealand Plans To Buy 28 Secondhand F-16C/D to Replace Skyhawk

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Another Adviser to the Chinese Communist Party Warns AI Gap With the U.S. After Khamenei Killing in Iran Strikes.

  • C4iSR

    Saab delivers Sirius passive sensor to NATO country.

  • Europe

    Turkey’s Anka-III Stealth Drone Achieves ‘Important’ Milestone

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Philippines Received Surface-to-air Missiles For Its Frigates

  • Europe

    U.S. Modern Weapon Will Help Change the War: Ukraine Ambassador

  • Europe

    Saab Group Lays Keel For Swedish Navy’s Blekinge-class Submarine

  • South Asia

    Pakistan intends to procure Chinese Z-10 attack helicopter following sanctions by the US

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Royal Australian Navy Short-lists ThyssenKrupp’s MEKO A200 and Mitsubishi’s Mogami Class For $7.6 Billion Frigate Contract

  • Europe

    Ukraine’s kamikaze drones set two major Russian oil depots ablaze

  • Europe

    Putinism In Danger: Russian Victory Day Parade During National Tragedy Of Coronavirus

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    U.S. Department of War confirms the UK will receive SSN AUKUS in the 2030s, and Australia will receive SSN AUKUS in the 2040s.

  • South Asia

    MMRCA V2.0: Indian Air Force Might Go With Rafale Again, Here’s Why?

  • Europe

    Russia Pulls Out All Aircraft From Crimea Airbase After The Blast

  • Ballistic Missile

    Rocketsan Test Fires Tayfun Short-range Ballistic Missile

  • Naval Platforms

    Amid US and Taiwan tensions, China to expedite development of FC-31 for PLA Navy

  • Americas

    President Trump to Favor Big Defense Spenders Establishing ‘America First Arms Transfer Strategy’.

  • Americas

    The US flew Super Hornet fighter jets over Guyana to send clear message to Venezuela

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Australia will invest $8 billion in upgrading its shipyards for future nuclear submarines.

  • Middle East

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

  • Air Platform

    KAI developing next-generation high-speed helicopter

  • Uncategorized

    Poland and Lithuania follow Finland acquiring Leopard tanks for Ukraine

  • Europe

    Belarus Delivers Modernized MiG-29UB To Serbia

  • Defense Industry

    Israel will invest $110 billion to develop independent arms industry.

  • Ballistic Missile

    Iran Delivers Hundreds of Fath-360 and Fateh-313 Theatre Ballistic Missiles to Russia

  • Middle East

    Ukraine’s President Zelensky to visit Israel next week

  • South Asia

    Indian Mi-17 Helicopter Crash Landed in Northeastern State

  • Anti-ship Missile

    Japan fires a Type 88 anti-ship missile during the Balikatan 2026 exercise in the Philippines.

  • Americas

    Canada could be the next target of the Russian GRU, warned the head of NATO

  • Middle East

    Saudi Patriot Battery Intercepts Houthi Ballistic Missiles

  • Counter-drone System

    Greece purchases counter-drone system from Israel.

  • Air Platform

    U.S. State Department Approves CH-47F Chinook Helo For Australia

  • Europe

    Russia Relocates Submarine Fleet From Crimea Naval Base Amid Ukraine’s Counteroffensive

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak and Defense Minister Zahid Hamidi Siphoned Billions of Dollars from Malaysian Navy’s Frigate Procurement Contract without Building any Ships.

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Ukraine Destroys Three S-400 Launchers and 96L6 Radar Using ATACMS Cluster Munitions In Donetsk

  • Europe

    Australian-made SYPAQ cardboard drones destroyed four Su-30SM, one MiG-29 and two Pantsir air defense in Kursk airfield

  • Defense Industry

    Saab Awarded Contract For A26 Submarine For Sweden

  • Europe

    U.S. State Department Approves 183 Stryker Armored Vehicles For Bulgaria

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Pandemic sees spike in number of ADF recruits

  • Defense Industry

    Switzerland Purchases 36 F-35 Stealth Jets Worth $6.25 Billion

  • Air Platform

    Russian Glorified Su-35 Failed to Track J-16 and J-10C in a Simulated Air Battle: PLAAF

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