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Naval Platforms

Boeing trials ski jump launches of Super Hornet for Indian Navy

August 22, 2020 GDC 0

In an effort to win a contract from Indian Navy, Boeing has been flying an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet off a ground-based ski jump at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. This is part of a demonstration […]

Industry

Boeing wants to certify Super Hornet for ski-jump operations

February 14, 2020 GDC 0

The Boeing wants to test and certify F/A-18 Super Hornet for ski-jump operations during the first quarter of 2020 before it can make a pitch for the Indian Navy. The Indian Navy has elected to […]

  • Russian FSB investigated Rosatom-owned company for corruption, selling shoddy equipment to reactors at home and abroad, pocketing profits – Carnegie Endowment finds

    August 26, 2024 0
    Russian Federal Prosecutors have accused a company owned by the country’s nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, of massive corruption and manufacturing substandard equipment for nuclear reactors under construction at home and abroad. Carnegie Endowment study argues [...]
  • U.S. delivers M1117 ASV 4×4 armored vehicles to Ukraine

    March 27, 2023 0
    According to a video published on the Russian Social Network VK on December 7, 2022, the M1117 ASV 4×4 armored vehicles promised by the United States are on their way to Ukraine. It was reported that the [...]
  • Royal Australian Air Force completed full fleet of Boeing’s P-8A Poseidon

    December 17, 2019 0
    Announced by the Australian Government, the delivery caps off a process that began with the arrival of the first P-8A in Australia in November 2016. The P-8As have already been used for Australian border protection [...]
  • Digital Arsenals : US Army Deployed Stryker Mounted EW System In Europe

    June 14, 2020 0
    The Army wants to jam, spoof and hack enemy electronics with such subtlety the target doesn’t even realize what’s going wrong. That takes both high-tech equipment and highly trained personnel to use it. But the Army largely disbanded its electronic warfare corps after [...]
  • BAE Systems Offers Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) to Slovakia

    February 10, 2022 0
    BAE Systems has confirmed its bid submission, together with the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV), for the Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) in response to the Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic’s acquisition of 152 new [...]
  • 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

Hanwha Aerospace Awarded Contract to Produce Long-range K239 Chunmoo Rockets to Norway.

January 29, 2026 0

Hanwha Aerospace Co. has secured an estimated $1.9 billion project to supply long-range rockets to Norway, with the official contract expected to be signed this week, informed industry sources said Wednesday. The contract is widely […]

Infantry Weapons

The U.S. Deploys Iranian Shahed-136 Replica LUCAS Drone in the Middle East.

January 27, 2026 0

Russia’s version of Iran’s fast, cheap Shahed attack drones have been wreaking havoc during the Ukraine conflict, saturating the skies nearly every night and terrorising civilians. Highly adaptive and hard to intercept, the United States […]

Africa

China delivers Type 59 towed guns to the UAE-backed terror group Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

January 25, 2026 0

China has shipped a batch of Type 59 130mm towed artillery systems to Rapid Support Forces, with images confirming the weapons loaded aboard a cargo vessel and prepared for export, according to open-source visuals recorded […]

Americas

Elbit Systems Started Manufacturing Sigma NG 155mm Howitzers in the U.S.

January 11, 2026 0

Elbit Systems has completed production of the first model of the Sigma NG 155 millimetre self-propelled howitzer at the South Carolina facility of its US subsidiary, Elbit America. The system is fully based on US […]

Europe

Germany purchases KNDS RCH155 Wheeled Howitzers.

January 8, 2026 0

The German Bundeswehr plans to acquire 229 RCH155 wheeled howitzers using the chassis of the Boxer 8 x 8 wheeled combat vehicle from KNDS. It is expected that the procurement will soon be examined by […]

Europe

Turkish drone maker Skydagger completes Skydagger 7 FPV drones trials.

December 28, 2025 0

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  • C4iSR

    Saab and CAE sign agreement to train GlobalEye AEW&C operators.

  • Air Platform

    Russia could directly supply RD-93MA engine to Pakistan for JF-17 Block III

  • Americas

    US Army’s Bradley vehicle replacement (OMFV) programme

  • Air Platform

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

  • Air Platform

    Turkish Baykar’s Akıncı UCAV passes 1st test flight

  • Europe

    Russia’s Top General Valery Gerasimov Wounded In Eastern Ukraine

  • Air Platform

    Armenia considers French Rafale jets and rejects the underperforming Su-30MKI jets due to Russia’s failure to defend Armenia.

  • Americas

    Huntington Ingalls Industries Completes Initial Sea Trials of 21st Virginia-class Submarine

  • Europe

    Poland signs deal to buy more Chunmoo multiple-rocket launchers

  • Europe

    Russia Losing Tanks And Armored Vehicles Faster Than It Can Replenish

  • Air Platform

    Trump Administration Approves $6 Billion Arms Sale to Israel.

  • Anti-ship Missile

    Iconic Neptune Anti-ship Missile Spooked Russia’s Russian Amphibious Ships In Mykolaiv

  • Europe

    Putin fired Colonel-General Gennady Anashkin for lying about battlefield gains

  • Europe

    Naval Group Launches Second FDI Class Frigate

  • Americas

    US Military Selected Barrett Multi-caliber MRAD Sniper Rifle to Replace M2010 and M107 sniper rifles

  • Air Platform

    U.S. Air Force deploys MQ-9 Reaper drone in Estonia

  • Europe

    UK Delivers Tracked Spartan Armored Vehicles To Ukraine

  • Air Platform

    Here’s Why India’s HAL Bejas and Pakistan’s JF-17 Blunder are nothing, but TEMU fighter jets

  • Air Platform

    Indra Joins FCAS Programme With Equal Partnership

  • Defense Industry

    Why do Russia’s Su-75 Checkmate and Su-57 have visible screws and rivets?

  • Americas

    Raytheon Excalibur Artillery Projectile Fired at Record Range From CAESAR Howitzer

  • Middle East

    F-15 forced an Iranian passenger jet to turn around

  • Europe

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

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Chinese EOTDC PL-10 Semi-active Air-to-Air Missile and PL-10E Infrared-guided Air-to-air Missile, A Reverse-engineered Italian APSIDE Missile

  • Air Platform

    Boeing Integrated Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems into AH-64E Apache and T-7A RedHawk.

  • Europe

    Poland To Acquire 500 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) With Domestic Production Facility

  • Industry

    Rostec Will Unite Sukhoi and Mikoyan Design Bureau To Avoid Bankruptcy

  • Europe

    Saab Awarded Contract To Produce Fire Control System For CV90 Armored Vehicle

  • Cruise Missiles

    Taiwan to develop 1000km range stealth Cruise Missile

  • C4iSR

    Turkey Developed New YAKAMOS Hull Mounted Sonar

  • Akash SAM
    East Asia and Pacific Region

    India deploys indigenous Akash SAM in Ladakh

  • Americas

    Fincantieri awarded contract to build two more Constellation-class frigates for US Navy

  • Europe

    Ukraine to localize the production of Czech CZ BREN 2 assault rifles

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Germany Tests Meteor Missile From Eurofighter for First Time

  • South Asia

    Bangladesh’s China-made F-7MB Fighter Jet Crashes In Bay of Bengal

  • Europe

    U.S. To Send Hawk Medium-range Anti-air Missile To Ukraine

  • Americas

    Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Delivered Final Trophy APS To The US

  • Air Platform

    U.S. State Department Approves 23 F-model Chinook Helicopters For Egypt

  • Air Platform

    Anti-Putin partisan shot down Russian Su-27 fighter jet over Belgorod

  • Europe

    Russian FSB Inflaming Tensions Between Kosovo And Serbia To Divert NATO’s Attention From Ukraine

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    RAN SEA5000 Hunter-class FFG Project Is On Track Despite COVID19

  • Air Platform

    Russia lost the highest number of aircraft in a day since the Ukraine war began; two MiG-31s and six Su-25 were downed

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Royal Australian Navy Crews Will Be Trained On Astute-class HMS Anson Submarine

  • Europe

    Ukraine to produce Czech CZ BREN 2 assault rifles

  • Europe

    UK arms could be made in Ukraine under license, Telegraph says

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Northrop Grumman delivers SiAW test missile to US Air Force

  • Air Platform

    US Air Force’s T-7A Red Hawk trainer completes taxi tests before maiden flight

  • Europe

    Putin’s war in Ukraine spiraled cost as the defense budget jumped to 282% in January 2023

  • Land Platform

    M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Main Battle Tank Is More Lethal Than It’s Predecessors

  • Europe

    Hellenic Air Force To Showcase Rafale Fighters In Air Show

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