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German IRIS-T Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has conducted the first steel cutting for the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) multipurpose amphibious unit, which is being built for the Italian Navy.

The Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) HMCS Ottawa has successfully concluded a layered missile engagement off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, on its Poseidon Cutlass 17-1 deployment.

Logos Technologies' Redkite wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor has successfully completed flight testing in Yuma, Arizona.

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On 6 June, a delegation headed by Russian minister of defence Sergei Shoigu visited Information Satellite Systems (ISS) Reshetnev near Krasnoyarsk to acquaint itself with the company's military products. The company has a virtual monopoly in building the country's communications and navigation

China has opened a facility in Pakistan to channel technology transfers to the country in support of local industrial development, according to an announcement on 10 July. The facility is the first of several that Beijing plans to open across South Asia. The first sub-regional facility of the

The House’s fiscal year 2018 (FY 2018) defence authorisation bill would, if enacted, add about USD80 billion in discretionary appropriations over the 2019–22 period, according to a new congressional report. About USD15.3 billion would be for higher end-strength authorisations. Policy

Turkish OMTAS Anti-Tank Guided Missile

Lockheed Martin and Naval Group (formerly DCNS) have announced the opening of Australia's Future Submarine Office in Cherbourg, France.

The British Royal Navy's Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose has commenced sea trials for the first time after completing a three-year refit in Devonport.

The US Navy is set to commission its future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) on 15 July.

A Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Yakovlev Yak-130 'Mitten' training aircraft crashed on 11 July in Bangladesh’s southeastern Chittagong District, according to local media reports. BAF officials were quoted by the online news portal bdnews24.com as saying that both pilots ejected safely from the

Brazilian Army (Exército Brasileiro: EB) personnel are to repair armoured vehicles belonging to the Paraguayan Army, after the personnel inspected the platforms from 26 June to 7 July, according to a 6 July EB statement. The inspection (and the impending maintenance) was undertaken by

The British Army has retired all of its 160 remaining Prox Dynamics Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS) nano-unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), citing a "diminished" requirement. News of the retirement emerged in the ministry's "UK Armed Forces Equipment and Formations

The French government has announced its defence export figures for 2016, revealing that the country’s defence industry is continuing to report record export order volumes. In a report by the French Ministry of Defence (MoD) to the country’s parliament on 7 July, export orders reached

EVENT The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), formed by Pakistan's Supreme Court to investigate corruption allegations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family, submitted its findings on 10 July. Among several damaging conclusions, the JIT found that the Sharif family had accumulated wealth

Key Points Thales has offered the Watchkeeper UAS for the Indonesian Air Force's requirements System is being considered to improve the service's surveillance, reconnaissance, and target acquisition capabilities Thales UK is positioning the company's WK 450 Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft system

Key Points A top USAF officer wants to boost the service’s F-35 buy to 60 or 80 aircraft The USAF wants to buy more aircraft despite being financially limited to 46 annually A top US Air Force (USAF) officer wants the service to boost its Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike

A legal challenge to export sales of weapons by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia was denied by London’s high court on 10 July. An NGO that had led the challenge vowed to appeal the decision in a press release. The case centred on UK export laws’ prohibition against delivering weapons