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The US Defense Department officially reaffirmed its support for a US Navy (USN) plan to buy the service’s next two Ford-class aircraft carriers under a single contract on 31 December, sending over details of the plan to Congress on New Year’s Eve. Lawmakers have publicly supported the

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to procure the YeSU TZ (Yedinaya Sistema Upravleniya Takticheskogo Zvena) battlefield management system, Deputy Defence Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said on 22 December during a visit to the Voronezh-based Sozvezdiye Concern, which is a subsidiary of

A team of engineers at the University of Delaware has built and demonstrated a real-time mobile video camera that sees the environment through radio frequency (RF) waves as opposed to optical or infrared (IR) waves. In early demonstrations, the device has shown that using high-frequency waves

On 28 December an extensively upgraded Tupolev Tu-22M3 ‘Backfire-C’ supersonic long-range strategic bomber, now designated the Tu-22M3M, made its maiden flight at an airbase belonging to the Gorbunov Kazan Aviation Plant (KAZ). According to the press office of Russia’s United

Firing tests with Çafrad, a multi-functional phased-array radar built indigenously by Turkish firm Aselsan, were carried out successfully in late December the company has stated. Çafrad was tested on board the frigate TCG Göksu (F 497), where it was integrated with a Raytheon

Key Points The USAF is adding US Navy and UK RAF participants to its next Pilot Training Next (PTN) class PTN is the USAF’s effort to decrease the time and cost of pilot training without sacrificing the depth of learning The US Air Force (USAF) is adding both US Navy (USN) and UK Royal Air

An Antonov An-26 transport aircraft belonging to the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) crashed on 24 December after overshooting the runway at Beni Airport in North Kivu province, local media reported. The aircraft was reportedly transporting troops from Kisangani to Beni

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is considering the acquisition of fellow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturer Aeronautics, it has been revealed. In a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) notification, Aeronautics claimed that IAI is in talks regarding the buy, adding in a separate notification

Israel’s BIRD Aerosystems announced on 19 December 2018 that it had won a substantial contract with a new African military client for the provision of airborne surveillance, information, and observation (ASIO) aircraft. The company said the contract covers a “turnkey programme”

Following its launch in July 2018, the first students undertaking courses via the UK’s Defence Enterprise Export Programme (DEEP) have begun their studies at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire. DEEP was introduced by the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) to help individuals advance their

The Colombian Navy is set to receive two recently purchased Airbus AS365N3 Dauphin helicopters. The Dauphins have already been assembled at Guaymaral civil airport in Bogotá, painted in Colombian colours with serial numbers ARC 251 and 252, and are expected to be delivered on 7 January to the

Following its launch in July 2018, the first students undertaking courses via the UK’s Defence Enterprise Export Programme (DEEP) have begun their studies at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire. DEEP was introduced by the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) to help individuals advance their

The first Russian-made T-90S main battle tanks (MBTs) ordered by Vietnam in 2016 have arrived in the Southeast Asian country, and are expected to be delivered to the army in the next few days, a Vietnamese military source told Jane’s on 2 January. “The first batch of T-90S MBTs –

Germany’s GIWS, a joint venture company between Diehl Defence and Rheinmetall Weapons and Munitions, has confirmed that qualification of its relaunched SMArt 155 artillery projectile will be undertaken between 2022 and 2024. Qualification is to be followed by a Phase 4 production programme

Event On 1 January 2019, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un gave his annual New Year’s Address. The 30-minute speech focussed primarily on the economy, framing development and reforms as “socialist” and in keeping with North Korea’s “Juche” ideology of

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced in his New Year’s Day address that he is committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and willing to meet again with US President Donald Trump, but warned that Pyongyang “might be compelled to explore a new path” if Washington

Event A Chadian human rights group said on 30 December that at least 30 gold miners were killed and 200 wounded in Chad’s northern Tibesti region by Arab fighters who crossed into the territory from southern Libya. According to the Chadian Convention for the Defence of Human Rights

Key Points Bangladesh’s election commission on 31 December announced that the ruling Awami League (AL)-led Grand Alliance had secured 288 of 300 directly elected seats in parliamentary elections the day before. Despite the opposition’s rejection of the election result, a prolonged

Airbus Helicopters’ Brazilian subsidiary, Helibras, delivered the last of three H225M helicopters configured for combat search and rescue (CSAR) to the Brazilian Navy on 27 December. The first two helicopters, which are designated UH-15A Super Cougar in national service, were delivered to

China’s Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard has launched the seventh Yuzhao-class (Type 071) landing platform dock (LPD) vessel on order for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). The LPD took to the water on 28 December, as derived from information in a notice to mariners released by