Defence`s Feeds

The US Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 has successfully conducted the section confined area landings (CAL) and test shooting of the M2 Browning .50-calibre machine gun from the Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina.

Most NATO countries have come to grips with defence corruption on the domestic front, though several allies score poor marks, according to anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International's latest biannual assessment. However, only a tiny minority sufficiently guard against corruption in military

Key Points Wargaming and associated disciplines are widely recognised by militaries, government, and the private sector as a valuable alternative analytical technique. Policy gaming can support efforts to analyse complex real-world situations, encouraging innovative thinking, and challenging

The Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Argentina: FAA) is to shortly receive back into service a Lockheed Martin KC-130H Hercules tanker-transport aircraft that has been modernised in the United States. Aircraft TC-69 will arrive back in Argentina in the coming days, having gone through an upgrade

EVENT On 18 February 2016 the Self-Reliance (Samopomich) party, which has 26 seats in the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada, left the ruling coalition, meaning that the remaining parties now hold only 217 votes, below the majority of 226. A day earlier, Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Fatherland

Key Points There have been at least 11 Islamic State-claimed attacks in Bangladesh since September 2015, primarily targeting religious minorities, foreigners, and security forces. Although the attacks are likely to have been carried out by domestic militants, the shift in targeting-pattern and

Key Points Nigeria's anti-corruption body has launched a USD175-million case for theft and money laundering against a former Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta general Government Ekpemupolo (also known as Tompolo). A string of attacks on major trunk pipelines, costing the

A GROUP of Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) militants put up propaganda posters at the Durga temple in the Dighi bazar area of Jamui district in India's Bihar state on 15 February, The Times of India reported.

Despite improvements in a number of areas the US Department of Defense (DoD) remains vulnerable to cyber attack, the 2015 report for the office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) has concluded. According to the report, the DoD has introduced enhanced protection for some

Local media reports translated the message, originally in Kotokoli Tem, a local language, into French. The message specifically singled out the chief Imam Souleyman of Totsi mosque located in the northwest of the capital Lomé, accusing him of planning to dilute the rigorous teaching of Islam.

Key Points The government has announced a dual foreign-exchange system, a significant increase in the price of fuel - which is still among the cheapest in the world - and a revision of price controls and of the state-owned food distribution network of supermarkets. The measures are unlikely to

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) published its 2015 financial results on 18 February, reporting a 0.9% rise in revenue to USD7,033 million. Operating income generated by the US shipbuilder, meanwhile, was up by 17.4% year-on-year, at USD769 million. Within the company the larger business,

India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made little or no progress in the three-year-old INR119.29 billion (USD1.78 billion) programme to import and licence-build 56 Medium Transport Aircraft (MTA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF). Billed by the MoD as the flagship of its 'Make in India' initiative,

Key Points Mohammad-Reza Aref's statement comes amid the widespread disqualification of reformist candidates, by the hard-line conservative Guardian Council, from running in the 26 February parliamentary elections, effectively blocking their aspirations of regaining a meaningful representation in

Iran has developed an 'improved' variant of its Shahed-129 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which was displayed by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for the first time during a rally in mid-February to mark the anniversary of the Islamic revolution in 1979. As seen in an image released by

A POLICE officer was killed and two others were wounded when Islamic State militants opened fire on their checkpoint in El-Badrasheen in Egypt's Giza governorate on 16 February, Al Bawaba reported. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media.

AT LEAST two military personnel were killed when their helicopter was brought down by Islamic State heavy machine gun fire over an area near Amiriyah Fallujah in Iraq's Anbar province on 17 February, AFP reported. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Japanese navy may seek to expand collaborative efforts with the US Navy (USN) in the electronic and cyber-warfare domains, the former's chief said on 18 February. In a move that would build on the already close relationship between the two navies, Admiral Tomohisa Takei - chief of staff of the

SAIC spin-off Leidos returned to the black during 2015 with a prior year operating loss of USD214 million turning into a profie of USD298 million. Sales, however, were broadly static at USD5.09 billion (2014: USD5.06 billion). A fall in sales in the group's National Security Solutions business

NATO and EU experts will hold their first round of technical talks about translating the two organisations' recent agreement on cyber defence co-operation into concrete action during the week of 22 February. "The idea is to get our experts talking - daily, almost," Ian West, head of cyber