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The UK Royal Navy is hosting the world’s first large-scale demonstration of marine robotic systems, called Unmanned Warrior 16.

The US Navy has commissioned its latest Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) at North Locust Point in Baltimore, US.

Mission-critical services provider Engility has been awarded a $16m task order extension by Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SSC) Atlantic to provide technology to support the US Navy’s tactical afloat network.

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Russia's only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov , is nearing the end of a work-up period outside the port of Murmansk before heading for the eastern Mediterranean, reportedly to begin air operations against targets in Syria. The first combat deployment of Kuznetsov was announced by Russian

Key Points Singapore has secured access to military training space in Australia about ten times its own size Access grants the Singapore Armed Forces room to hone its more sophisticated warfighting capabilities The governments of Singapore and Australia have signed a memorandum of understanding

Key Points King Bhumibol is likely to be replaced by Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, despite rumours in recent years that the Privy Council would attempt to sideline the crown prince. The succession is unlikely to lead to political turmoil, as the military-led government appears to support

Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) has integrated products from three recent acquisitions to produce Atlas, a single system that can provide imagery-derived intelligence at the tactical level and which meets a US customer's Urgent Operational Need. Mike Twyman, president of Cubic Mission Solutions, told

L-3 Linkabit announced at the Association of the US Army (AUSA) annual convention in Washington in October 2016 that it had been awarded a contract for the System and Demonstration (SID) phase of the Screening Obscuration Module (SOM) programme. The SOM is described as a "modular, soldier

China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) appears to be investing in new training capability, according to images posted online. The PLAN's website has published details of a three-masted sail training ship in build; work is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2017. The 85 m ship will

Ukraine's leading electronic warfare (EW) design and production company, Radionix, will begin flight testing of a podded version of its Omut airborne self-protection system in November 2016. These test flights will validate and expand on earlier ground-based and simulated tests. Radionix engineers

Ultra Electronics displayed its CombatConnect dismounted soldier power and data system at the Association of the US Army (AUSA) annual convention in Washington in October 2016. The system is the basis for the company's proposal for the power and data elements of Project VIRTUS, the UK MoD's

Key Points Lockheed Martin is the first competitor for the GBSD contract to reveal its industry team Boeing and Northrop Grumman are also competing for the work Lockheed Martin became the first competitor on 13 October for a US Air Force (USAF) contract to design the next US intercontinental

The Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise, taking place this October, will see over 40 participants from industry, academia and defence operating unmanned and autonomous vehicles. Katie Woodward speaks to ASV Global sales and marketing director, Vin…

Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) deployment of Iskander-M (SS-26 'Stone') short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) to its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, which lies between Poland and Lithuania, has prompted widespread concern in the region. The deployment of the Iskander-M, which has a range of 500

South Korea has received its first lot of Taurus KEPD 350K cruise missiles during a ceremony at the headquarters of Taurus Systems in Schrobenhausen, Germany, it was announced on 14 October. An undisclosed number of missiles were formally handed over to the Republic of Korea Air Force (RoKAF)

Italy's ALA Corporation is beginning to grow its capabilities in the component distribution and supply chain logistics sector and is targeting growth in the North American market following a recent acquisition in the United Kingdom. The company has begun to look at expanding its international

ANALYSIS It is still unclear what missiles and target acquisition systems the Yemeni rebels are using. AFP cited an unidentified senior defence official as saying they are believed to have a type of the Chinese-made C-802 anti-ship missiles. That could be interpreted as a reference to Iran's Noor

Armenian defence minister Vigen Sargsyan agreed to pursue greater defence industrial co-operation with Russia on 13 October, during a meeting with the Director of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Alexander Fomin. The countries signed a commitment to develop joint