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  • [ May 17, 2026 ] 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. East Asia and Pacific Region
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Air Platform

Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Super Hercules Aircraft Completes Maiden Flight Test

April 8, 2024 GDC 0

New Zealand’s first C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft has conducted its initial flight test in the US. The demonstration saw the vehicle fly for 246 minutes over Georgia and Alabama. It achieved a range […]

Air Platform

New Zealand Received Its Final P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft

July 26, 2023 GDC 0

New Zealand has inducted its fourth and final Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Ohakea. This aircraft comes under the country’s “once in a generation investment” in […]

Air Platform

Boeing Delivers P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft To New Zealand

December 10, 2022 GDC 0

“As a maritime nation, delivery of the P-8A will ensure New Zealand maintains a patrol and response capability that will protect and support law enforcement in our Exclusive Economic Zone and Southern Ocean,” said Sarah […]

Air Platform

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

September 7, 2020 GDC 0

The Royal New Zealand Air Force is planning to buy fighter jet, according New Zealand Defense Forces whitepaper. Anything New Zeland is planning to buy would need to be able to integrate with Australia. In […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

New Zealand to buy five C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft

June 7, 2020 GDC 0

WELLINGTON (GDC) — New Zealand’s military said on Friday it will buy five Super Hercules transport aircraft from Lockheed Martin for US$1 billion learned GDC citing Defense News. The planes will replace the military’s existing […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Boeing Defense received contracts to build P-8As Poseidon for South Korea and New Zealand

April 3, 2020 GDC 0

The US DoD awarded Boeing a $1.5 billion production contract for the next 18 P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The contract includes eight aircraft for the U.S. Navy, six aircraft for the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN) and four aircraft […]

  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Hides At Safe Bunker After Israeli Air Strikes On Hezbollah HQ Killing Hassan Nasrallah

    September 29, 2024 0
    Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been taken to a secure location inside Iran amid heightened security, sources told Reuters, a day after Israel killed the head of Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah in a strike [...]
  • Russian BTR-82 Armored Personnel Carriers Blowing Up In Ukraine Like Tin Cans

    August 16, 2022 0
    This footage shows Ukrainian soldiers blowing up a Russian armored personnel carrier and its crew, according to the Ukrainian army. Russian Army’s BTR-82A armored vehicles turned into fried chicken in every battle it foughtDateSeptember 2, [...]
  • Kuwait upgrades its Patriot missile defense system

    April 15, 2025 0
    Kuwait is reinforcing its national security and regional defense posture with a major upgrade of its PATRIOT air defense missile systems, an initiative recently approved by the United States Department of State. Valued at approximately [...]
  • Grim milestone: Russia passed 400,000 casualties in the Ukraine war

    February 20, 2024 0
    On February 16th, the Ukrainian General Staff reported in their daily war update that Russia lost more than 400,000 soldiers since Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. A large number [...]
  • US Air Force withdraws height restrictions for applicants

    May 25, 2020 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 [...]
  • Ukrainian Colonel Captures Russia’s T-90M Tank And Drive Off While Russian Conscripts Watch From Distance

    October 6, 2022 0
    Ukrainian Colonel and Ukranain hero Pavlo Fedosenko commander of the 92nd Mechanised Brigade drives off with and captured Russia T-90M tank in new footage. In the footage the Colonel can be seen attempting to start [...]
East Asia and Pacific Region

The Features and Characteristics of South Korean K239 Chunmoo MLRS.

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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.

May 11, 2026 0

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East Asia and Pacific Region

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

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Europe

Safran and MBDA fired the first Thundart munition developed for France’s Long-Range Land Strike program.

May 5, 2026 0

French defense firm Safran and missile maker MBDA successfully test-fired their jointly developed rocket-artillery munition this month, and expect to be able to deliver the first multiple-launch rocket systems in 2029 should their offer be […]

  • Defense Industry

    IAI, KAI Sign MoU for Development of Loitering Munitions

  • C4iSR

    U.S. State Department Approves Ground-based Command And Control System To Morocco

  • Middle East

    Pakistan warned the IRGC that it cannot fend off the U.S./Israel air strikes using Chinese-made anti-air missiles.  

  • Europe

    Thousands Of Mobilized Russian Conscripts Are Unfit For Military Service In Ukraine War

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    U.S. approves $10 billion in medium-range missiles, howitzers, and drones for Taiwan.

  • Air Platform

    Turkish Heavy Attack Bayraktar Akinci Drone Started Bombing In Syria

  • Europe

    Belarus Shot Down Ukrainian S-300 Anti-air Missiles That Entered Belarusian Airspace

  • Americas

    US Officials Confirmed, Turkey Has Requested Deployment of Patriot Missile Defense in Turkey

  • Middle East

    U.S. and Israel considering special operations mission to seize Iran’s weapons-grade uranium stockpile at the Isfahan nuclear facility.

  • Africa

    Kenya received Israeli SPYDER anti-air missile system.

  • Middle East

    Top Hamas commander killed as Israeli army pushes deeper in besieged Gaza

  • Middle East

    Egypt Plans to Buy France’s Barracuda Class Submarines

  • Europe

    Ukraine’s special forces captured Russian tank fitted with new radio frequency jammer

  • Europe

    Russia Sending Obsolete 1950s Military Gear To Easter Ukraine As Reinforcement

  • Americas

    U.S. GOP Senators Introduced Legislation To Bloster Israeli Iron Dome

  • Air Platform

    Boeing Delivers Second F-15EX Eagle II Fighter Plane To US Air Force

  • Europe

    Ukrainian frontline troops pleading for more tanks as temperature plummets again

  • Europe

    NATO fighter jets intercept Russia’s MiG-31 fighter jets over Estonian airspace.

  • Air Platform

    Pentagon approves full-rate production of F-35 stealth jets

  • Europe

    Top 5 Weapons Platform Russia Couldn’t Afford, Aimed At Export Customers

  • Europe

    Dutch MoD Issued B-Letter To Naval Group, Saab & TKMS For Walrus SSK Replacement

  • Americas

    L3Harris Proposed to Increase EA-37B Electronic Attack Aircraft

  • Americas

    Putin’s Puppet Donald Trump Wants Ukraine to Hand Over $500 Billion Minerals To U.S. or Hand Over Country to Russia

  • Europe

    Biden Administration Throws Support Behind Seizing $300 Billion Frozen Russian Assets

  • Air Platform

    Ukrainian NASAMS Shot Down Russia’s Over-hyped Su-35 Fighter Jet In Bakhmut

  • Europe

    The UK to Send Harpoon Anti-ship Missiles to Ukraine

  • Air Platform

    Israel to purchase two squadrons of F-15I and F-35I Adir advanced fighter jets.

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    U.S. Sends HARM Anti-radiation Missiles, Drones, Ammo And 16 HIMARS Rocket Artillery To Ukraine

  • Europe

    France Donates 12 CEASAR Howitzers To Ukraine

  • Europe

    Norway allocates additional $5.7 billion to Ukraine until 2030

  • Europe

    Desperate time: Russian retrofit air-launched rocket launcher onto UAZ pickup truck

  • Europe

    Leaked FSB document shows mad Vlad wants to annex Belarus by 2030

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Russia’s failure prompted China to head hunt globally to teach them air combat tactics and manoeuvres

  • Europe

    Russian army sergeant set off grenades on conscripts in a bid to establish authority

  • Europe

    Colonel Vadim Boiko Suicides Because He Feared He’d Blame For Ukraine Error, Widow Says

  • Air Platform

    General Electric F414 and F404 engines are powerful, safe and reliable

  • Europe

    General Oleksandr Syrsky replaces General Valery Zaluzhny as Ukraine’s new army chief

  • Air Platform

    Eurofighter Typhoon shows some crazy maneuver

  • Air Platform

    Russian Untrained Pilots Crashing Aircraft To Ground

  • Europe

    Russia’s Su-35 Propaganda Video Explains Why VKS’s Sporadic Actions in Ukraine

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Papua New Guinea Defence Personnel Completes Australian Aviation Medicine Training Course

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Temu Tank: Royal Thai Army’s Chinese-made VT-4 Tank’s Turret Exploded After Sustained Heavy Fire.

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    A Ukrainian Army Officer Warned Taiwan of Possible Wartime Scenarios.

  • Europe

    Rheinmetall has secured its largest-ever ammo order worth $9.1 billion

  • C4iSR

    Turkish Havelsan expands Boeing pilot training capacity with new devices entering testing

  • Europe

    Amid tensions with Russia, Sweden increases defense budget by 40%

  • Air Platform

    In-depth Look At KAI KF-21 Boramae (Nicknamed “Baby Raptor”) Fighter Jet

  • Europe

    Turkish MoD Unveils Next-gen Fast Attack Craft

  • Europe

    Ukrainian kamikaze sea drones destroyed two Russian Serna class landing ships

  • Air Platform

    AI & ML: US Air Force’s B-21 Raider Takes Technology One Step Ahead

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