Jane's Defense News

Key Points KRI Malahayati will receive new command, fire-control, and electronic warfare systems + Indra and Navantia have stepped up efforts to jointly pursue both domestic and export business Indra and Navantia have stepped up efforts to jointly pursue both domestic and export business A

The French Navy offshore patrol vessel L'Adroit has been equipped with a Spynel S-6000 long-range panoramic infrared (IR) surveillance system supplied by HGH Systems Infrared. Spynel S-6000 is a compact, stabilised 360 degree mid-wave IR surveillance and tracking system scanning at up to 60 rpm.

A French industry cluster comprising aluminium shipbuilder OCEA, underwater and robotics specialist ECA, and training facilitator DCI has come together to offer an end-to-end, stand-off unmanned mine-countermeasures (MCM) system for the export market. The co-development and marketing agreement

General Dynamics wrapped up alpha trials for the future USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), the first Flight IIA Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers that the company has taken to sea since the destroyer programme restarted in 2010. Alpha trials, the initial set of builder's trials, were completed on

Mumbai-based naval shipbuilder ABG Shipyard has confirmed that it is in discussion with an unnamed Russian firm with a view to divesting a controlling stake in its assets. The company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange on 19 October that talks with the Russian company were currently

The Indian Navy has inducted the second improved variant of the Car Nicobar-class patrol vessel. The vessel, INS Tihayu , was commissioned on 19 October in a ceremony held in Visakhapatnam and will be deployed for coastal patrol and surveillance missions along India's eastern coast. Tihayu is part

North Korean state media warned on 19 October that South Korea "will be engulfed in a sea of fire" if Pyongyang detects signs of a pre-emptive strike by the United States or South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported. In addition, the North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper reiterated that

Brazil's privately-run Technicae Projetos e Serviços Automotivos, which is owned by Singapore Technologies Kinetics (ST Kinetics), has been in talks to modernise and refurbish 180 6x6 armoured fighting vehicles of the Colombian Army, but a potential contract has not been finalised, the company

The US Navy has awarded Raytheon a USD255 million contract to develop a production model of the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) satellite-based landing system. Contract options could raise the value to USD270 million. Raytheon will complete development of the autoland

BAE Systems and the Eurofighter consortium companies are looking to grow their engagement with Belgian industry as part of their offering of the Eurofighter Typhoon for a current Belgian Air Force requirement. It is expected that the Belgian government will invoke Article 346 of the Treaty on the

EVENT The faction of Boko Haram led by the Islamic State-imposed leader Abu-Musab al-Barnawi claimed on 17 October that it had killed 20 soldiers the day before in Ghashghar, near Nigeria's border with Niger. Using the name Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the group said it had

Thales released its third quarter results covering the first nine months of the year on 19 October, showing that the company is continuing to ride the bow-wave of the success of the Dassault Rafale aircraft in foreign markets. The company's overall order intake reached EUR10.22 billion (USD11.24

The United States is deploying its best military assets to the Asia-Pacific region as part of President Barack Obama's 'rebalance to Asia' and sees its regional security alliances as helping to ensure stability in the future, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter wrote in an article published on 18

A new secret facility with hardened shelters is to be constructed in Israel under a USD64.6 million contract that the US Department of Defence (DoD) awarded to the New Jersey-based company Conti Federal Services Inc on 18 October. The contract announcement gave no further details other than to say

Spanish company Expal announced on 18 October that it had signed an agreement with Airbus Defence and Space that will see the company provide engineering support for munitions to be mounted on an Airbus C295W. Expal said that they would be providing support "for the integration of standard

The concept design for the new Frégate de Taille Intermédiaire (FTI) for the French Navy was unveiled by the French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on 18 October. The minister was joined at the Euronaval exhibition in Paris by Laurent Collet-Billon, head of France's defence

Key Points The five KPLP patrol boats receiving Scanter 6000 are KN Trisula , KN Kalimasadha , KN Kalawai , KN Chundamani , and KN Gandiwa Scanter 6000 system is being integrated with the Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine Vision Master ARPA display system Danish systems and sensors house Terma has

Key Points Lockheed Martin is continuing to develop its COMBATSS-21 CMS The system's lineage to the Aegis programme allows it to draw on established Aegis capability as well as any new developments incorporated US systems and sensors house Lockheed Martin is continuing development of its

Key Points NATO faces new range of conceptual and geographic threats Alliance member states must think differently about how to address such threats NATO faces a new range of threats today, in both geographic and conceptual contexts, and needs to learn to think differently in terms of how to

South Korea's Hanwha group, which has made several high-profile defence acquisitions over the past year or so, has announced a restructure to optimise industrial efficiencies. The Seoul-headquartered corporation said in a filing to the Korean Exchange on 17 October that the reorganisation is