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USS Gerald R. Ford successfully completes final shock trials

August 10, 2021 GDC 0

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has successfully completed its third and final round of Full Ship Shock Trials. The third explosive event was conducted Sunday off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., according […]

Americas

USS Gerald R. Ford Completes Shock Tests

June 25, 2021 GDC 0

The US Navy’s new supercarrier is going through shock trials, and that means setting off live explosives near the warship to simulate aspects of actual combat conditions. USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the first of […]

  • Boeing upgrades Apache version 6 with UAV and ship hunting capability

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  • Argentina finally signs agreement with Denmark to purchase 24 secondhand F-16 jets, ditching J-10C, Tejas, JF-17 and MiG-35

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  • Peruvian Air Force Short-list Rafale F4, Saab Gripen And F-16V Block 70 For 24 Fighter Jets Requirements

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  • Russia deploys S-350 air defense system within the striking range of HIMARS

    July 8, 2024 0
    The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage for the first time showing the deployment and operation of the advanced S-350 Vityaz air defense system in a missile brigade in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The newest S-350 [...]
  • USS Ronald Reagan and Nimitz head towards South China Sea

    July 4, 2020 0
    The U.S. is sending two aircraft carriers into one of Asia’s hottest spots to deliver a pointed message to China that it doesn’t appreciate Beijing’s military ramp-up in the region. The USS Ronald Reagan and [...]
  • In a hypothetical war, If F-35 face-off with Su-57, who would win?

    November 13, 2018 0
    How do you compare the capability of a blind man (Su-57) with a man with a perfect vision (F-35)? Still, you will find the internet trolls who are dreaming that one day, maybe one day [...]
Europe

Ukraine develops new Bohdana 155mm howitzer variants

September 10, 2025 0

Ukrainian defense industry plans to expand its artillery production with new variants of the Bohdana howitzer, one of the country’s most widely produced systems since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. According to journalist Mariusz […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Vietnam Purchases 20 K9 self-propelled Howitzers.

August 25, 2025 0

South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace has signed an export agreement with Vietnam for its K9 self-propelled howitzers. It marks South Korea’s first arms export to Vietnam, following earlier donations of decommissioned patrol ships. Under the $250-million […]

Europe

Roketsan tests TRLG-122 laser-guided rocket against naval target

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Europe

Serbia Behind $1.6 Billion PULS Artillery Contract With Israeli Elbit Systems.

August 20, 2025 0

The Israeli defense technologies company chose not to disclose Serbia as the European country purchasing Hermes 900 drones, long-range missiles, electronic warfare systems and command and control systems, in a landmark deal reported by Calcalist. […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Taiwan unveils a mobile missile launcher disguised as a civilian delivery truck

August 18, 2025 0

Taiwan’s military has unveiled what appears to be a mobile missile launcher disguised as a civilian delivery truck—part of what analysts say may be a growing fleet of improvised yet highly capable coastal defense systems […]

Infantry Weapons

India’s DRDO developed 155mm howitzer ammo exploded inside gun turret

July 29, 2025 0

The Indian Army is set to test a new mounted gun system (MGS) designed to fire six rounds in a minute and reposition in just 85 seconds, a shoot-and-scoot capability meant to dodge counter-fire and […]

  • Europe

    S-300 Has No Interception Capability Against Tactical Missile

  • Europe

    Serbia, Poland To Buy Israeli Spike LR Anti-tank Missiles

  • C4iSR

    The Saab’s Giraffe Radar Family

  • Europe

    Fifth Astute-class Submarine Officially Named HMS Anson

  • Europe

    Bakhmut turned into a death zone for Wagner mercenary group as Ukraine started counteroffensive

  • Air Platform

    Qatar Receives A Batch of AH-64E Apache Helicopters

  • Europe

    U.S. Begun Training Ukrainian Troops On HIMARS Rockets

  • Air Platform

    BAE Achieves Key Production Milestones For The F-35 Stealth Jet

  • Uncategorized

    Ukraine Received Avenger Air Defense System From The U.S.

  • Americas

    Northrop Grumman to modernize US Navy’s E-6B Mercury Fleet

  • Air Platform

    Iraq Received Two H225M Caracal Medium-lift Helicopters

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Australian Army Deploys M1A2 Abrams SEP V3 Tanks

  • Americas

    Airbus offers 15 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3 and 17 surplus Tranche 1 to Colombia

  • Air Platform

    Northrop Grumman Unveils RAAF’s MQ-4C Triton ISR Platform

  • Air Platform

    Why the U.S. Navy purchased 78 Super Hornet block III?

  • Air Platform

    U.S. Approves $8.5 Billion Sale Of 60 CH-47F Chinook Helicopters To Germany

  • C4iSR

    Saab awarded a contract for the delivery of Saab 2000 Erieye to an undisclosed customer

  • Europe

    Wrecked images of Russian military hardware, incompetence, corruption, drunk conscripts and inadequate training in Russia’s disastrous Ukraine invasion

  • Defense Industry

    Israeli IAI returns Sri Lankan Kfir fighters to service, provision for future upgrades

  • Direct-energy Weapons

    Turkish Asalsan successfully tests GÖKBERK Mobile laser anti-drone system

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    The RAN Warship Joins Multinational Military Exercise In South China Sea

  • Europe

    Putin’s Ally Serbia Made U-tern On Political And Military Relationships With Russia Over Ukraine War

  • Africa

    U.S. State Department approved precision-guided munitions to Nigeria

  • Air Platform

    Boeing Awarded Contract For Germany’s P-8 Poseidon Anti-submarine Aircraft

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    European Countries Helping Taiwan Design And Build Submarines Domestically

  • Europe

    Russia Blames American Raytheon For Upgrading Soviet-era Tu-141 Kamikaze Drones

  • Air Platform

    Flying Coffins: Indian Air Force’s MiG-29 Fighter Jet Crashed Near Agra

  • Europe

    South Korea’s DAPA to Develop Naval L-SAM Program for KDDX Destroyer

  • C4iSR

    Sanctions buster: Russia imported guidance kits from American Honeywell, Advanced Navigation and German iMAR Navigation

  • Naval Weapons

    Saab Receives Order for Torpedo 62 Life Extension

  • Americas

    Austal gets $128 million to build US Navy’s auxiliary floating dry dock

  • Industry

    Top Five Weapons Exporter In 2015-2019

  • South Asia

    India-Pakistan Violated Cease Fire: Heavy Artillery Shelling by both sides

  • Europe

    Saab Signs Two Contracts for Next Generation Corvettes for Sweden

  • South Asia

    Hindu Nationalist Narendra Modi was over-interested in corrupt and murderous Sheikh Hasina, looting Bangladesh to undermine its national security rather than investing in Bangladesh

  • South Asia

    General Bipin Rawat praises Boeing P-8I Poseidon for Doklam operation

  • Americas

    U.S. State Department approved the sale of NASAMS air defense system to Ukraine

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Thyssenkrupp and Saab signed agreement to promote MEKO A-200 platform for Australia’s general purpose frigate

  • Naval Platforms

    RAN installs new mast on HMAS Warramunga frigate

  • Defense Industry

    Germany Commits €100 Billion to Meet NATO Defense Spending Requirement

  • Air Platform

    Kuwaiti Air Force owns the most advanced variant of Eurofighter Typhoon

  • Europe

    Australia Sends 20 Bushmaster Armored Vehicles to Ukraine

  • Air Platform

    US Air Force fires AIM-9X missile from MQ-9 Reaper drone

  • Americas

    U.S. Army to equip Stryker armored vehicles with 50kw laser weapons

  • DEFIANT X
    Air Platform

    Sikorsky Delivers Future Long-range Assault Aircraft Proposal to U.S. Army

  • Europe

    After T-90S Tanks, Ukraine Handed Over Russian T-72 Tanks To U.S. Army

  • South Asia

    Bangladesh Army Shot Dead Garment Workers Protesting For Pay Raise

  • Europe

    Estonian military to receive Turkish-made YÖRÜK 4X4 armored vehicles

  • Ballistic Missile

    North Korean KN-23 failed in the Ukraine war, but that didn’t stop Kim Jong Un from having a photo opportunity with the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Ukrainian troops blew up three Russian Buk missile systems with kamikaze drones

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