Defence`s Feeds

The Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation has handed over the Kodiak armoured engineer vehicle (AEV) to the Royal Netherlands Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 31 May. The Netherlands is co-operating with Sweden on the procurement of 10 Dutch and six Swedish Kodiaks. The AEV was

Kazakhstani public and private industry joined to create an armed robotic vehicle, the Karakurt, and unveiled it during the KADEX 2018 defence exhibition in Astana. The tracked unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) was designed by Kazakhstani companies Robotron Aspandau and New Tech Distribution, with

Russia unveiled its Katran rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during the Victory Day Parade in May. “The trials of the Katran UAV are scheduled for this summer [mid-2018],” a Russian aerospace industry source told Jane's . The Katran is designed for firesupport and reconnaissance

Armatec Survivability Corp has partnered with John Deere subsidiary Nortrax on the Common Heavy Equipment Requirement (CHER) contract for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), representatives from the two companies told Jane’s on 30 May. Worth up to CAD 1.5 billion (USD 1.16 billion), CHER seeks

The Babcock-led industry group ‘Team 31’ bidding for the UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) Type 31e general-purpose light frigate programme launched its Arrowhead 140 design proposal on 31 May. The platform will be based on Danish ship design consultancy Odense Maritime

The Brazilian government recently cancelled BRL500 million (USD134 million) from the BRL2.5 billion allocated in the country’s 2018 budget law to fund acquisition and local building of four Tamandaré-class multipurpose corvettes for the Brazilian Navy. Amounts of BRL1 billion and BRL1.5

Kongsberg expects the first newly installed deep-water echosounders using an innovative new layout to enter service with within weeks, the company told Jane’s at CANSEC 2018. Under an August 2017 contract, Kongsberg is supplying its high-resolution EM 712 multibeam echosounders to the

Beijing and Moscow have agreed to enhance bilateral military ties, China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced on 31 May following the 20th round of strategic consultation held between the People’s Liberation Army and the Russian armed forces. “The two sides exchanged

A HASHD al-Shaabi militiaman was killed and three others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced on a roadside by unidentified militants, detonated as the patrol passed Tuz Khurmatu-Tikrit road in Tuz Khurmatu town in Hamrin region in Iraq's Salah ad Din province on 30 May,

The Indian Navy has issued two separate requests for information (RFIs) for unmanned underwater and surface vessels. The RFI for unmanned surface vessels (USVs) indicate a requirement for 12 vehicles with replaceable mission modules and a simulator that can assist in training for a variety of

Key Points Malaysia has transferred a fourth Kedah-class corvette to its Eastern Fleet The move aims to improve security near a tri-border maritime region with Indonesia and the Philippines The Royal Malaysian Navy has deployed another Kedah (Meko 100 RMN)-class corvette, KD Kelantan (175), to

Frence’s Nexter has devised a new concept of operation aimed at extending the capabilities of autonomous systems used to support special operations mobility teams. The concept is due to be publicly disclosed for the first time at the Eurosatory conference in Paris on 11 June. Company

The US Navy (USN) will essentially be using the same version of the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) on its Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) as is deployed in Norway, said Chris Daily, senior director of the NSM, the Joint Strike Missile (JSM), and the Tomahawk for Raytheon Missile Systems. There are no

' IN A STATEMENT issued on 30 May, the pro-Russia separatist Luhansk Information Centre claimed that military forces had conducted three ceasefire violations targeting militant positions in the town of Donetskyy and village of Lozove in Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, BBC Monitoring reported. No group

Indonesian defence company PT Pindad has outlined the scope of its expanding engagement with counterparts from India. In a statement on 31 May state-owned PT Pindad confirmed that it had entered a new partnership with Bhukhanvala Industries and that it has expanded collaboration with Tata. PT

A Panther test helicopter of the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, conducted the second successful test firing of the MBDA Sea Venom/Missile Antinavire Léger (ANL) light anti-ship missile on 18 April, the European missile house and

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has signalled progression in its programme to develop an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar system in collaboration with local industry. DAPA said in a statement on 31 May that its radar programme – intended

AT LEAST one police officer was killed and five others were wounded when 10 militants, dressed as United States soldiers, detonated a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) at the entrance of the headquarters of Ministry of the Interior, before they attacked the building armed

The US Navy and Marine Corps plan to conduct a test in June of the Compact Laser Weapons System (CLWS), a high energy laser (HEL) designed to track and disable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The test will take place at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, and will use CLWS 2.6, the latest variant of

Raytheon Missile Systems of Tucson, Arizona, received a USD14.9 million firm-fixed-price contract for over-the-horizon (OTH) missile systems to be used for the US Navy (USN) littoral combat ships (LCSs), the Department of Defence (DoD) said on 31 May. The contract includes options which, if