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  • [ June 21, 2026 ] The Peoples Liberation Army’s spy satellite site is now fully operational in Cuba. Americas
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US Air Force withdraws height restrictions for applicants

May 25, 2020 GDC 0

The U.S. Air Force announced this week that it is changing its height restrictions for pilots. Applicants below 64 inches (5’4″) or above 77 inches (6’5″) can now enter a cockpit without a waiver.  Under […]

  • Russia To Supply Myanmar With Orlan-10E Surveillance Drones And Pantsir-S1

    April 22, 2021 0
    Russia has signed a contract to supply an unspecified number of Orlan-10E surveillance drones to Myanmar as part of a deal that also includes Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems and radar equipment. The Russian defense systems, [...]
  • New Close-up Image Shows North Korean Shipyards Was Inept and Lacked Technical Know-how on Launching Destroyer

    June 1, 2025 0
    North Korea wanted to show strength, or at least tried to…. What it ended up showing was a monumental failure. Its most advanced destroyer, equipped with a vertical missile launch system, sank just minutes after [...]
  • Four Countries Reject Su-57E, Except Myanmar

    June 10, 2021 0
    The Su-57 first flew in 2010. But development was painfully slow. As of early 2018, the 10 Su-57 prototypes possessed “inadequate and incomplete sensors, incomplete fire-control systems and self-protection suites, no operational integrated avionics and [...]
  • BIRD Aerosystems delivers advanced missile protection suite for Israeli Apache helicopters.

    September 11, 2025 0
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  • Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs are outlasting Russia’s war with innovation

    February 15, 2024 0
    As Dmytro Suslov walked his dog on February 24, 2022, just before five in the morning, he spotted the first missile strikes overhead marking the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. His heart pounded [...]
  • UAE-Isreali Peace Deal: UAE hotel group offers kosher food to influx of Israeli tourists

    September 5, 2020 0
    In the wake of the normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and after visiting Israeli journalists were served a kosher banquet, a number of hotels in the UAE will start to offer [...]
Europe

MBDA unveils deep-strike, air defence, and smart mass-weapons portfolio.

June 21, 2026 0

MBDA will present a broad portfolio of sovereign defence solutions at Eurosatory 2026 as Europe and its allies accelerate rearmament. The company said the portfolio is intended to address armed forces’ needs in an increasingly […]

Americas

Lockheed Martin Unveils HIMARS FLEX with 12 Launch Canisters Capable of Firing Extended Range GMLRS, PrSM, and ATACMS.

June 20, 2026 0

Lockheed Martin announced the HIMARS FLEX on June 16, a modular evolution of the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System that introduces a dual-pod launcher configuration capable of carrying double the munitions of the standard […]

Infantry Weapons

Indian Army selects Meprolight MEPRO X6 as new daytime optic for Negev light machine guns.

June 18, 2026 0

The Indian Army has selected Meprolight’s MEPRO X6 telescopic sight as the dedicated daytime optic for its Negev light machine guns (LMG), concluding a multi‑year evaluation process aimed at boosting long‑range engagement capability across frontline […]

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 […]

  • Europe

    President Zelensky discloses his annual income to bring transparency to his country

  • Europe

    Ukraine started equipping locally built drones with guided munitions

  • Europe

    Germany Trained Ukrainian Soldiers On Gepard Anti-air Weapon System

  • Europe

    British special air services troop numbers are significant low, defense expert warns 

  • Direct-energy Weapons

    The Raytheon’s High-energy Laser Weapon System (LaWS)

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    RAN’s HMAS Toowoomba Joins South China Sea Patrols With the Philippines and the United States

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Philippine sets to procure Israeli Spyder GBAD

  • C4iSR

    Saab delivers fifth GlobalEye to the United Arab Emirates

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    M-61A1 20mm Gatling gun

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Azerbaijan purchased the Israeli Iron Dome missile system

  • Defense Industry

    Netherlands and Belgium agree on building $4.4 billion ASW frigates

  • Europe

    Romania Increases 2022 Defense Budget By 32%

  • Defense Industry

    India has received 26 Rafale aircraft till date, report

  • Europe

    Royal Navy’s New Type 32 Frigate To Serve As USV Mothership

  • Europe

    Ukraine war: Russia has four million skilled and unskilled workers shortage

  • Europe

    Ukraine Sunk Russian Supply Ships Using Harpoon Anti-ship Missiles

  • Americas

    US Army Completes Third Test of Precision Strike Missile

  • South Asia

    Disgraced Dictator Sheikh Hasina Received $8 Million (BDT 100 Crore) Grease Payment From Simin Rahman.

  • Europe

    Saab Awarded $15.3 Million Contract For Swedish Navy’s Torpedo Tube

  • South Asia

    Tarique Rahman sends corrupt DGFI Director to India to reset relationship with India while murderer Hasina is in Delhi.

  • Infantry Weapons

    UAE Parades Norinco SR-5 MLRS

  • Land Platform

    Greek EODH Built New Armored Vehicles

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Taiwan Approves Additional $8 Billion Budget for Weapons Procurement

  • Europe

    Baykar Unveils 1000km Range MIZRAK Loitering Munition.

  • Naval Platforms

    Pakistan Navy launches first Hangor-class submarine in China

  • Central Asia

    Armenia snubbed Putin by joining the International Criminal Court

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Taiwan Warned Off Chinese J-10 Fighters Sixth Times In A Week

  • Air Platform

    Boeing, Saab to collaborate with BAE Systems to offer T-7A RedHawk for Royal Air Force

  • Air Platform

    Indonesia signed a letter of intent to acquire 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.

  • Air Platform

    Images show Ukraine’s kamikaze drones damaged four Su-24M and two Su-34 bombers at Morozovsk airfield in Russia’s Rostov Oblast

  • Air Platform

    Ukraine war: Iraq grounds Mi-17 and Mi-28NE helicopters, purchases American helicopters

  • Air Platform

    The KUS-FS UAV to be deployed for RoKA Ground Operations Command

  • 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.

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Why Do F-22 Raptor and F-35 Illuminate Targets Without Adversary Seeing the Source of Illumination?

  • South Asia

    How Indian and Pakistan’s air force compared to each other?

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Boeing Delivered AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopter to Undisclosed Customer

  • Anti-ship Missile

    Japan deploys type 12 anti-ship missiles launchers at China’s choke point

  • Middle East

    Israeli F-16 Bombed Lebanese Building Killing Hamas’s Top Drone Commander

  • Air Platform

    Boeing proposes T-7A Red Hawk next-gen trainer for Royal Air Force.

  • Naval Platforms

    China Delivers First Type 054A/P Frigate to Pakistan

  • Americas

    Nammo, Raytheon ramps up rocket motor production

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

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

  • Europe

    Ukraine’s single Bradley infantry fighting vehicles destroyed column of Russian MT-LB armored vehicles

  • Middle East

    Elbit Systems Awarded Contract To Produce Iron Sting Mortar Munitions

  • Europe

    COVID-19: Eurofighter Typhoon production lines will be kept Open

  • Europe

    Belarusian anti-Lukashenko BYPOL and Cyber Partisans are preparing major sabotages in Belarus and Kaliningrad

  • Middle East

    Dubai air show 2021: Rosoboronexport failed to sign a contract for Su-75 Checkmate

  • Cruise Missiles

    Indian Company BrahMos Aerospace Assisted Russia In Upgrading P-800 Oniks Supersonic Missile To Strike Ukraine

  • Europe

    Russian An-26 Aircraft Crashed in Ukraine, Crew Killed

  • C4iSR

    NATO members to purchase six GlobalEye AWACS, replacing E-7A Wedgetail.

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