Defence`s Feeds

Airbus Defence and Space (DS) is to focus its future growth efforts around the innovation of new technologies that are chiefly geared at its four core platforms, but will also include its wider portfolio. Speaking at the company's Ottobrun facility near Munich, officials outlined a series of

AT LEAST nine people - including three soldiers and six former militants - were killed in fighting that began when soldiers prevented former Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) and Mai-Mai militants from leaving a camp for demobilised militants in an unspecified location in the east of the Democratic

Astillero Rio Santiago (ARS), a shipyard owned by Argentina's Province of Buenos Aires, signed an agreement on 16 June with South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for ARS to locally build a Makassar landing platform dock vessel. This is a preliminary agreement and neither the

Bertin has launched the FusionSight night-vision device (NVD) that combines two sensors, a thermal imager, and daylight colour-imaging sensor that it has developed in partnership with Photonis. Unveiled at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris, FusionSight has three viewing modes, colour low light, thermal

India's Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Boeing started the construction of a new aerospace production facility in Hyderabad on 18 June that will be the base for a new joint venture (JV) between the two companies. In a statement the companies said the production plant, which is expected to

US secretary of defence Ashton Carter confirmed that new pre-positioned battalions on NATO's 'eastern flank' will be deployed in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, with likely contributions from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. NATO-member defence ministers on 14 June

US secretary of defence Ashton Carter expressed support for measures, now being considered by Congress, to give the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a bigger role in co-ordinating operations and planning. Carter and lawmakers have said such changes are necessary to address contemporary

China has banned the export of 40 items to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that could be used to develop nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction. The list of banned products and materials, which adds to a much longer Chinese list of prohibited goods released in 2013,

Chinese defence minister Chang Wanquan said it will be a "long and arduous task" to bring Sino-Japanese ties back on track. Speaking to Yoshifumi Hibako, former chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Chang said on 17 June bilateral relations are "complicated and

EVENT Mexican authorities seized 600 kilos of cocaine at the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City from a commercial flight from Aeroméxico airlines which had departed from Venezuela's Simón Bolívar International Airport (also known as Maiquetia), which services Caracas,

CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd from Hod Hasharon, Israel, demonstrated the SPEED-ER Ultra Long Range Observation system at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris. SPEED-ER is a multisensor observation system developed for surveillance and force protection applications. Johnny Carni, CONTROP's

Israel's General Robotics unveiled its Dogo unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris. Speaking to IHS Jane's , Shahar Gal, General Robotics' vice president of business development and co-founder, said that Dogo is a mission-specific platform designed to engage individuals, rather

India and Thailand have agreed to expand defence co-operation with a view to facilitating defence trade and related industrial engagement. The agreement was announced on 18 June after talks in New Delhi between India's prime minister Narendra Modi and his visiting counterpart General Prayut

The government of India has further eased foreign direct investment (FDI) rules making it easier for overseas companies to secure up to 100% ownership of an Indian defence company. In announcing the move, the government said that foreign investment beyond 49% "has now been permitted through

India's state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) conducted the inaugural flight of its basic Hindustan Turbo Trainer-40 (HTT-40) aircraft in Bangalore on 17 June. Officials said the propeller-driven HTT-40, powered by a Honeywell Garrett TPE331-12B single-shaft turboprop engine, flew for about

The Indian Air Force (IAF) inducted its first three female fighter pilots into service on 18 June following their graduation from the Air Force Academy at Dindigul in southern India. The IAF said that Flying Officers Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth, and Mohana Singh - selected from amongst 120

Key Points An Indonesian warship has opened fire on a group of Chinese vessels, injuring one fisherman Incident threatens to further escalate tensions between Beijing and Jakarta over the disputed waters An Indonesian navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL) Kapitan Pattimura

The Mexican Air Force (FAM) has signed an agreement with Airbus Defense and Space to fly to the North Pole, the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) announced on 18 June. The flight is for training, evaluation, demonstration, and trial purposes and is being conducted by a FAM C295W

The Royal Danish Navy has officially taken delivery of the first three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters from the US Navy during a ceremony.

CAE has received contracts worth C$145m ($112.4m) to develop a naval training centre (NTC) for the UAE Navy and to supply a suite of helicopter simulators and training devices to the UAE Joint Aviation Command (JAC).