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Mon, 18/08/2014 - 06:00
By Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham and Air Vice-Marshal Andrew L. Roberts for the United Kingdom National Defence Association ( UKNDA ). Introduction Following the 2010 Strategic Defence a
Tue, 05/08/2014 - 06:00
View the latest (Summer 2014) offshore patrol vessel acquisition plans from across the international market. Simply click on the thumbnail below to access the graphic.
Tue, 05/08/2014 - 06:00
While mass multiplayer video gaming is still a burgeoning field within the military domain, the concept of serious gaming is not a new one, nor one that has hinged on the development of digital technology. From board games to card games, involving recruits in activities that requires l
Tue, 05/08/2014 - 06:00
At this year’s forthcoming Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance conference, the twelfth annual event in the series, much of the focus of the dialogue will turn to Coast Guards and Border Protection agencies, who deal with varying levels of criminal activity in the maritime do
Tue, 05/08/2014 - 06:00
Those who practice medicine in the battlefield routinely and voluntarily put their lives on the line. However, as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is quick to point out, that does not mean those practitioners are exempt from the right, the need, nor the expectation f
Tue, 05/08/2014 - 06:00
Most battlefield deaths – if government statistics are up to date – occur within the first 10 minutes of wounding. Naturally, every second counts, and so medical planners in the military refer to the window as the “platinum ten minutes”, replacing the concept of
Tue, 05/08/2014 - 06:00
Recently in Fort Worth, officials from the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin and the Australian government gathered to celebrate the fact that two F-35 fighter jets bound for our ally down under were rolling off the assembly line. If you’ve followed the news about this plane over the pas
Mon, 04/08/2014 - 06:00
The development of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and tanks is on an “irreversible” track and will soon replace armoured vehicles driven by humans, according to a senior People's Liberation Army speaking to Chinese media. "Unmanned ground vehic
Thu, 31/07/2014 - 06:00
Military officials hope to prevent the kind of confusion that followed a recent engine failure that grounded Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jets for more than three weeks, the U.S. Air Force's top officer said on Wednesday. Chief of Staff General Mark W
Thu, 31/07/2014 - 06:00
Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing as it is more commonly known, will transform military supply chains and profoundly change the dynamics of the aerospace and def
Tue, 29/07/2014 - 06:00
The British military’s communications strategy is in the process of a shakeup. Where before there existed two ‘universes’ – that of information operations and psyops, and that of public relations, media ops and marketing – the emerging tactic is now in bri
Tue, 29/07/2014 - 06:00
Bill Hagestad, consultant, speaker and expert on Chinese information warfare “The People's Republic of China's military, the PLA will be significantly weakened by President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive, forcing the Communist Party of China (C
Tue, 29/07/2014 - 06:00
Two additional AEGIS ballistic missile defence ships will forward-deploy to Japan by 2017, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced recently in what he described as a response to counter the “provocative and destabilising” actions continually posed by North Korea.
Tue, 29/07/2014 - 06:00
At a time when future character of conflict debates, information security, user functionality and changes in force structures are redefining military data exchange requirements on the battlefield, land forces across the world are having to ask themselves how they can stay on top of the
Thu, 24/07/2014 - 06:00
Piaggio's prototype Hammerhead MALE UAV at Farnborough Airshow. Photo: Richard de Silva
Thu, 24/07/2014 - 06:00
You may have heard that Great Britain's £70m next-generation fighter jet, the F-35 Lightning II, had a bit of an accident this month. But that's just the latest twist in a long and expensive history. What is the F-35? The fully-networked nig
Thu, 24/07/2014 - 06:00
The Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence is beginning a mechanisation programme under its National Defence System Development Programme 2014-2023. The programme will see the East European power acquire a number of new vehicles and upgrade some of its existing fleet.
Thu, 24/07/2014 - 06:00
Saab has withdrawn from the Danish Air Force’s competition to replace its F-16 combat jet. The Gripen is no longer in the running after Saab failed to s
Wed, 23/07/2014 - 06:00
A new dawn for mortar systems has arrived. While lessons and upgrades have been harnessed from Afghanistan, tomorrow’s conflicts may present an entirely different environment with a number of emerging obstacles. The graphic below outlines a number of these challenges – click
Tue, 22/07/2014 - 06:00
Japan has changed its constitution. Or, rather, has “reinterpreted” it. Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet announced recently that it approved the constitutional reinterpretation to allow Japan a “limited” right to collective self defence. The decision was taken to o
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