Defence`s Feeds

The meeting in Doha between the United Nations and Afghanistan's Taliban regime on 29 and 30 June is a further

France - Universities told to watch China Scholarship Council grantsWhen speaking to the Senate inquiry committee on public policy on

The 15 June announcement by the head of the Iranian Space Agency, Hassan Salarieh, that the Islamic republic is to

In a small, unassuming office building in Paris sits a mailbox for the representative of the Russian republic of Tatarstan

Americas Raytheon won a $10 million order, which provides for sustainment of delivered block fleet releases, as well as ongoing development of flight test and fleet releases and analysis in support of implementation of future sustainment block fleet releases for the V-22 avionics systems for the Navy, Marines, and Air Force. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed in March 2026. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity. Raytheon won a $26 million modification to exercise options for engineering and technical support for the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile and NATO SeaSparrow Missile Systems programs. Work is expected to be completed by December 2025. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity. Middle East & Africa Syria plans the phased demobilization of tens of thousands of reservists from next month, a defense ministry official said, as fighting in the civil war has wound down in recent years. “Tens of thousands will be demobilised by the end of the current year, and the same next year, while maintaining combat readiness and acting in the interests of the people,” Major General Ahmed Sleiman told Syrian state television late Wednesday. Syria’s conflict has killed more than […]

Financial investigators in London wait anxiously for news from Iraq's main anti-corruption body, the Federal Commission of Integrity (COI), which last year began calling for asset tracing proposals as part of its overseas asset recovery work. At least one private-sector contractor

Intelligence Online has been able to view - and confirm the authenticity of - a video shot without the knowledge

The final working years of prefect Pascal Mailhos, 65, who was appointed head of France's intelligence and counter-terrorism coordination body,

The inauguration of a new ammunition production plant in Texas on 29 May by the US Secretary of the Army,

Unable to hand its eighth annual report to President Emmanuel Macron in person (IO, 24/06/24), the French national oversight commission

Americas Australia has sent its first team to Pearl Harbor to train in sustainment for the government’s upcoming AUKUS submarines. The AUKUS program is a trilateral cooperation between Australia, the UK, and the US to protect allies and interests across the Pacific with a dedicated underwater fleet. For the maintenance training, Canberra sourced around 30 skilled workers from Western and South Australia affiliated with local shipbuilder ASC Pty Ltd. This group includes electricians, mechanical fitters, safety engineers, and battery crew specialists, most of which have “decades of combined experience” with the Royal Australian Navy’s existing Collins-class submarines. Oshkosh Defense has received a $27.3-million contract to deliver 57 medium equipment trailers (METs) for the US Army. The MET is a six-axle drop deck trailer measuring 21.3 meters specifically designed to deploy with the company’s M1300 enhanced heavy equipment transporter system tractor. It can transport tactical vehicles up to 60 tons and is certified under European Highway Network Accessibility for 45-ton payloads. The vehicle can navigate under overpasses with a 13-foot (4-meter) clearance and is equipped with hydraulically adjustable suspension to address varying requirements across obstacles and water crossings. Middle East & Africa India has reportedly been exporting weapons and military equipment to Israel […]

After a judge denied an attempt by the United States to force the sale of a seized yacht, Washington is now seeking to rope in several foreign nationals it says will prove the yacht actually belongs to a sanctioned Russian

Paris: CSO-3 on track for end of 2024 launchThe third and final satellite of Airbus Defence and Space's CSO (Composante

Earlier this month a Paris court dismissed a bid by Dassault Aviation, Thales and Safran Aircraft Engines to stop France's

"We are not for sale," Shefshet Demirovski, the Macedonian owner and founder of ATS Group, replies to anyone who asks

In both versions of the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for 2025 currently being finalised by the US Congress, lawmakers are

Italian Eurofighters (click to view full) The multi-national Eurofighter Typhoon has been described as the aerodynamic apotheosis of lessons learned from the twin engine “teen series” fighters that began with the F-14 and F-15, continued with the emergence of the F/A-18 Hornet, and extended through to the most recent F/A-18 Super Hornet variants. Aerodynamically, it’s a half generation ahead of all of these examples, and planned evolutions will place the Eurofighter near or beyond parity in electronic systems and weapons. The 1998 production agreement among its 4 member countries involved 620 aircraft, built with progressively improved capabilities over 3 contract “tranches”. By the end of Tranche 2, however, welfare state programs and debt burdens had made it difficult to afford the 236 fighters remaining in the 4-nation Eurofighter agreement. A 2009 compromise was found in the EUR 9 billion “Tranche 3A” buy, and the program has renewed its efforts to secure serious export sales. Their success will affect the platform’s production line in the near term, and its modernization plans beyond that. Eurofighter: Design & Evolution Eurofighter, Spain (click to view full) The Eurofighter program emerged out of a long and conflicting set of multinational efforts to design a new […]

Saudi Arabia's energy ministry was disappointed but not surprised this month when the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its new medium-term oil forecast. As previously, IEA analysts predicted oil demand levelling off by 2030 as the world transitions to clean energy,

Griselda, a start-up headed by Alex Teplukhin and Dmytro Shamrai, is racing to finalise a new intelligence data fusion system

The deputy head of France's DGSE external intelligence service's research and operations department (DRO) is planning to step down, according