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  • [ March 15, 2026 ] U.S. Relocates THAAD Missile Defense System From South Korea to the Middle East. Anti-air Missiles
  • [ March 15, 2026 ] Lockheed Martin PrSM Missile Achieves Maritime Strike Capability. Americas
  • [ March 15, 2026 ] North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile as the U.S. and South Korea Conduct Military Exercise. Ballistic Missile
  • [ March 15, 2026 ] Myanmar Navy Launched New Domestically-built Frigate. East Asia and Pacific Region
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East Asia and Pacific Region

Vice Admiral David Johnston Faces Major Challenge of ADF’s Retention and Recruitment Problems

April 28, 2024 GDC 0

When Vice Admiral David Johnston begins his term as Australia’s Defence Force chief in July, he begins a mammoth task. Against a backdrop of plummeting morale and stagnant recruitment numbers, and amid the period of […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

Vice Admiral David Johnston Appointed As New ADF Chief, Amid Major Command Shake-up

April 10, 2024 GDC 0

It was always short odds a Royal Australian Navy officer would become the next chief of defence force after the announcement of the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact, and now the services boat has come on […]

  • France is negotiating the transfer of weapons from Arab countries to Ukraine

    March 29, 2024 0
    French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that France is negotiating with Arabian Peninsula countries to buy back French-supplied weapons for resupply to Ukraine. France Offers Rafale Jets To Ukraine As MiG-29 ReplacementDateApril 2, 2021French Offers [...]
  • China To Launch Third Aircraft Carrier In Late 2021

    January 19, 2021 0
    China’s third aircraft carrier, expected to be very different from the previous two with much larger displacement and featuring new catapults, could be launched in 2021 and enter naval service around 2025, media reports predicted [...]
  • Indonesia collaborates with Turkey on UAV-mounted air-to-surface missiles

    August 9, 2022 0
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  • Fincantieri cuts steel for French Navy’s logistics support ships

    July 1, 2020 0
    The steel cutting of the first of four forward sections for as many logistic support units LSS (Logistic Support Ship) ordered by Chantiers de l’Atlantique to Fincantieri under the FLOTLOG program (“Flotte logistique”) took place [...]
  • Israeli Rafael To Upgrade Indian Army’s 700 BMP-2 IFV

    September 15, 2021 0
    India’s Ministry of Defense has launched a program to modernize the Indian Army’s BMP-2/2K Sarath infantry fighting vehicles. The Russian website Topwar.ru reported that each company competing for a tender issued last year by the [...]
  • Raytheon’s GhostEye Air Defense Radar Defeat Cruise Missile

    December 22, 2023 0
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Americas

Lockheed Martin PrSM Missile Achieves Maritime Strike Capability.

March 15, 2026 0

Lockheed Martin has completed the first flight test of the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 2, marking a significant step forward in the U.S. Army’s long-range fires modernization program. The test demonstrated the missile’s new […]

Europe

Germany plans to buy up to 500 KNDS MARS 3 rocket launchers.

March 12, 2026 0

Germany’s Bundeswehr intends to submit a budget request in the second half of 2026 to conclude a framework contract with KNDS for the procurement of up to 500 MARS 3, also known as EuroPuls, multiple […]

Infantry Weapons

U.S. Army Deploys 500km Range High Precision PrSM Rocket Artillery to Strike Iran.

March 4, 2026 0

U.S. Central Command has employed the U.S. Army’s Precision Strike Missile in strikes on Iranian military targets, marking the first confirmed combat use of the ground-launched deep-strike system. The debut expands the Army’s role in […]

Infantry Weapons

U.S. M142 HIMARS Rocket Artillery Destroyed Zolfaghar and Sayyad-2 Missile System.

March 3, 2026 0

U.S. forces launched a long-range ATACMS ballistic missile from an M142 HIMARS system, destroying what appears to be an Iranian Zolfaghar short-range ballistic missile and elements of a Sayyad-2 air defense missile system. The strike, […]

Europe

Rheinmetall Unveils Fuchs Tank Destroyer Armed with 24 U.S. AGM-179 Anti-Tank Missiles.

February 27, 2026 0

Germany’s Rheinmetall has unveiled the Fuchs JAGM (Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles) at Enforce Tac 2026 in Germany, a wheeled armored vehicle capable of firing up to 24 U.S. AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles or AGM-114L Hellfire Longbow […]

East Asia and Pacific Region

China’s AVIC Unveils America’s V-BAT Copycat Drone.

February 22, 2026 0

China’s AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group has officially presented a new vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle known as the Yunying (Cloud Shadow in Chinese), a tail-sitter drone featuring a ducted-fan design closely […]

  • Anti-air Missiles

    Spain purchases four Patriot missile batteries worth $1.7 billion.

  • Uncategorized

    Lockheed Martin Awarded $414 Million Contract For Long-range Anti-ship Missiles

  • C4iSR

    LIG Nex1 and Korean Air awarded contract to develop first domestic electronic warfare aircraft.

  • Infantry Weapons

    U.S. Army Selects Smart Shooter Small UAV Killing Weapons

  • Air Platform

    Indian Navy To Buy 40 Shipborne Heron And Searcher UAV

  • Air Platform

    Dassault Aviation Unveils First Rafale F4 Aircraft For UAE

  • Air Platform

    Russia’s UAC to manufacture a downgraded variant of the Yak-130 trainer jet.

  • Europe

    Taiwan’s $1.5 Billion Indigenous Submarine Prototype Set for Final Tests

  • Air Platform

    Turkey To Upgrade F-16 Fighters To F-16V Standard

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    China brings in more soldiers, heavy construction equipment to Galwan Valley

  • Air Platform

    South Korea Officially Enters Sixth-generation Fighter Jet Race

  • Europe

    HENSOLDT to Provide Optronics Suite for German and Norwegian Type 212CD Submarines

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Two South Korean Firms Battle To Win Australia’s General Purpose Frigate Contract

  • C4iSR

    The Seaspray 5000E AESA Radar

  • Central Asia

    Armenia considers applying for European Union membership as Russia failed to defend Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

  • Europe

    Anti-Putin partisans fired rockets in town of Shebekino in Belgorod

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Luftwaffe Eurofighters Get Meteor BVRAAM

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    50 RAAF Aircraft Joins Exercise Arnhem Thunder 2021

  • Europe

    Ukrainian Military is High on Morale, Low on Air Defense and Fighter Jets

  • Air Platform

    Azerbaijan Grounded JF-17 Fighter Jets, Demands Turkish Missile, Avionics and Prospective TF35000 Engine in JF-17 Jet.

  • Naval Platforms

    Royal Canadian Navy Accepts HMCS Harry DeWolf Artic OPV

  • Europe

    Belgian military received the initial batch of Falcon armored vehicles

  • Land Platform

    Indian Army Buys 118 Arjun MK1A Main Battle Tanks

  • Europe

    KGB Putin Overestimated His Rusty Soviet Military, Gets A Bloody Nose

  • Europe

    Russia Executing Their Own Retreating Soldiers Near Avdiivka

  • Europe

    China deploys 200-ton aluminium hull low-tech type 22 boats in South China Sea

  • Middle East

    Israeli Forces Seized 3,300 Weapons in Syrian Operations

  • Africa

    Morocco is the first African country to donate T-72 tanks to Ukraine

  • Europe

    Croatia orders Dynamit Nobel Defense (DND) RGW90 anti-tank guided missiles

  • Europe

    Ukrainian soldier shot down Russian missile with M2 machine gun

  • Europe

    Turkey Test Fires Domestic anti-ship Atmaca missile

  • Europe

    Mad Vlad Diagnosed With Advanced Stages Of Stomach Cancer, Only Foreign Doctors Kept Him Alive

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    Kim Jong Un Tours Major Ballistic Missile Factory Near Pyongyang.

  • Air Platform

    U.S. approves sale of 38 Danish F-16 and Norwegian 4 P-3 Orion aircraft to Argentina deterring Chinese influence

  • South Asia

    President Trump ordered DOGE to cut UN peacekeeping funds, a slap to Bangladesh after inscripting ‘except Israel’ on passport

  • C4iSR

    Analysis: A Modern Integrated Air Defense Systems

  • Naval Platforms

    Navantia launches corvette for Royal Saudi Navy

  • Europe

    Sweden short-listed Arrowhead 120, Alfa 4000 and FDI Frigate for the Luleå-class frigate program.

  • Air Platform

    Turkey Weigh-in 4.5 Gen Fighter Jets Between Eurofighter And Gripen

  • Europe

    Leopard frenzy: Czech Republic to buy 50 Leopard 2 main battle tanks

  • Air-Launched Weapons

    Poland purchases AIM-120D-3 AMRAAM missile to arm F-35A fighter jets.

  • Air Platform

    UK Buys 14 Chinooks Helicopters Worth £1.4 Billion

  • Europe

    Remarkable Footage Shows Russian Troops Surrendered To Ukrainian Drone As Ukraine Advances In Bakhmut

  • East Asia and Pacific Region

    AUKUS delays could leave the Royal Australian Navy without submarines

  • Europe

    Historic first: Ukraine’s ‘sea baby’ drone blew up Russia’s kilo-class submarine in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

  • Europe

    4,000 ‘Russian Legion’ Volunteers Fighting For Ukraine Plans To Topple Putin In Russia

  • Europe

    Turkish Bayraktar TB3 reaches 36,310 feet in an altitude trials

  • Naval Platforms

    France’s Naval group negotiating with both MDL and L&T for Indian submarine project 75I

  • Europe

    Ukraine Claimed That It Killed Second Russian General Outside Kharkiv, A Serious Blow to KGB Putin

  • Europe

    Putin purged dozens of high-ranking military officers as officials stole millions of dollars from the Ministry of Defense

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