Jane's Defense News

Event The mayor of Misratah, Mohamed Eshtewi, was kidnapped on 17 December as he was being driven home from Misratah airport following an official trip. His corpse was later left outside a local hospital. The perpetrators of the attack have not yet been identified. Eshtewi had been vocal in his

The two primary contenders for Germany’s heavy-lift helicopter requirement are waiting on confirmation from the Bundeswehr that the project has indeed been signed off as reported. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin confirmed to Jane’s on 19 December that neither has received notification

Ammunition official Abu Ayoub and offensives administrator Abu Sulayman announced their defection from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's 'Badiya' branch and pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has begun modifying some 40 Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters to enable them to carry the BrahMos-A (Air) supersonic cruise missile, and thus boost the aircraft’s long-range precision-strike capabilities. Official sources told Jane’s that the state-owned

At least nine people were killed and 56 others were wounded when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated their explosives targeting a prayer hall at Bethel Memorial Methodist church in the city of Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan province on 17 December, Reuters reported. Reports added that a

The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 19 December approved the introduction of two Lockheed Martin Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defence (BMD) systems to counter the growing threat posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. "North Korea's nuclear and missile

US science, technology, and services group Leidos has been contracted by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) to build a second Sea Hunter-type Class III Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vessel (MDUSV) to support science and technology (S&T) advancement of autonomous technologies and

Eurofighters of the Luftwaffe’s Taktische Luftwaffengeschwader (Tactical Air Force Squadron, TaktLwG) 31 “Boelcke” in Nörvenich have gained an air-to-ground capability to deliver laser- and GPS-guided Guided Bomb Unit 48 (GBU-48) bombs, the Luftwaffe announced on 18 December.

On 18 December at 17:15 CET, a Polish Air Force MiG-29A jet fighter from the 23 Tactical Air Base crashed near Marysin village around 13 km from Minsk Mazowiecki airfield. Despite not ejecting, the pilot survived the crash and was found in the wreck and evacuated with only minor injuries. It was

On 16 December, the last intake of 250 members of the Polish territorial army, the Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej (WOT), were sworn in in Białystok after completing their basic training. It was the second such ceremony of the 1st Podlaska Territorial Defence Brigade. In addition to

Event Two rival Sahel jihadist groups – the Al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) – announced on 14 December that they were joining forces against counter-terrorism operations, following reports that their

The Qatari military unveiled its previously unseen Chinese-made Joint Attack Rocket & Missile systems (JARMs) on 18 December, when two launchers and two transporter-loader vehicles participated in the National Day parade in Doha. The JARM is promoted by the China National Precision Machinery

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 19 December that it had donated defence equipment to Tajikistan as part of an effort to modernise the Central Asia country’s armed forces. The military products, which included small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles helicopters,

Near Urvan, Kabardino-Balkaria, the security services held a counter-terrorism operation killing one alleged Islamist militant; two police officers were wounded.

South Korea’s state-run military research and development (R&D) agency has appointed a new chief, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) in Seoul has announced. Nam Sae-kyu will assume the position of the president of the Agency of Defense Development (ADD) from January 2018 for three

A CIVILIAN was killed and five others were wounded when an unidentified militant detonated a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) targeting a NATO convoy on the airport road in the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on 17 December, Reuters reported. There was

AT LEAST 14 soldiers were killed and an unspecified number of others were wounded by Taliban militants in an attack targeting police outposts in the city of Lashkargah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on 17 December, VOA News reported. Reports added that an unspecified number of militants were

Key Points Buoyed by recent successes with the Pakistan and Thai navies, Chinese naval shipbuilder China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation has recently unveiled a slew of new submarine concepts targeted at the export market New export concepts include 200-, 600-, and 1,100-tonne diesel-electric

Qatar’s extensive fighter-recapitalisation effort continued on 10 December with the announcement that the Gulf state had signed for a number of Eurofighter Typhoons. The announcement, which was made by Eurofighter consortium member and lead for the Qatari programme, BAE Systems, covers 24

Singapore Army artillery forces operating the Lockheed Martin M142 227 mm High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) have been given a boost with the fielding of a new and more capable mobile battery command post (CP) as well as the introduction of the company’s Universal Fire Control