Jane's Defense News

Indonesian shipyard PT Caputra Mitra Sejati has begun work on a lightly-armed variant of the KCR-40-class missile attack craft for the Indonesian navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL), a source close to the service confirmed with IHS Jane's on 21 June. The variant has been

Key Points JSOW C-1 adds a maritime moving target capability to the AGM-154C IOC was declared in early June 2016 The US Navy (USN) has begun to deliver the Raytheon AGM-154C-1 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) to the fleet following declaration of Initial Operational Capability (IOC) in early June.

Key Points Nexter systems has developed manned and unmanned turrets outfitted with the 40 mm Case Telescoped Cannon System The 40 mm CTCS has already been selected for the UK Ajax reconnaissance vehicle and Warrior Capability Sustainment Programme, as well as the French Army's Jaguar

Key Points The VAQ-138 expeditionary squadron is training Philippine FA-50 aircraft pilots amid tensions in the South China Sea The VAQ-138 is the second temporary group to assist the Philippines since PACOM approved a new US air contingent programme in April Four US Navy (USN) Boeing E/A-18G

Five additional MD 530F Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters arrived in Kabul on 17 June to boost the Afghan Air Force's (AAF's) capability to support Afghan National Army ground operations. The latest delivery raises the number of such airframes provided by the United States to the AAF from 13

The British Army is to transfer day-to-day command of the UK's Thales WK450 Watchkeeper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) in a bid to smooth its entry into front-line service. Army sources told IHS Jane's that the switch would take place at the end of August with

Airbus Defence and Space (DS) is currently working with the German armed forces (Bundeswehr) to identify future threats and capability needs to inform its work on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), a senior company official told reporters on 20 June. Speaking at the company's Ottobrun facility

Airbus Defence and Space (DS) is to focus its future growth efforts around the innovation of new technologies that are chiefly geared at its four core platforms, but will also include its wider portfolio. Speaking at the company's Ottobrun facility near Munich, officials outlined a series of

AT LEAST nine people - including three soldiers and six former militants - were killed in fighting that began when soldiers prevented former Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) and Mai-Mai militants from leaving a camp for demobilised militants in an unspecified location in the east of the Democratic

Astillero Rio Santiago (ARS), a shipyard owned by Argentina's Province of Buenos Aires, signed an agreement on 16 June with South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for ARS to locally build a Makassar landing platform dock vessel. This is a preliminary agreement and neither the

Bertin has launched the FusionSight night-vision device (NVD) that combines two sensors, a thermal imager, and daylight colour-imaging sensor that it has developed in partnership with Photonis. Unveiled at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris, FusionSight has three viewing modes, colour low light, thermal

India's Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Boeing started the construction of a new aerospace production facility in Hyderabad on 18 June that will be the base for a new joint venture (JV) between the two companies. In a statement the companies said the production plant, which is expected to

US secretary of defence Ashton Carter confirmed that new pre-positioned battalions on NATO's 'eastern flank' will be deployed in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, with likely contributions from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. NATO-member defence ministers on 14 June

US secretary of defence Ashton Carter expressed support for measures, now being considered by Congress, to give the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a bigger role in co-ordinating operations and planning. Carter and lawmakers have said such changes are necessary to address contemporary

China has banned the export of 40 items to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that could be used to develop nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction. The list of banned products and materials, which adds to a much longer Chinese list of prohibited goods released in 2013,

Chinese defence minister Chang Wanquan said it will be a "long and arduous task" to bring Sino-Japanese ties back on track. Speaking to Yoshifumi Hibako, former chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Chang said on 17 June bilateral relations are "complicated and

EVENT Mexican authorities seized 600 kilos of cocaine at the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City from a commercial flight from Aeroméxico airlines which had departed from Venezuela's Simón Bolívar International Airport (also known as Maiquetia), which services Caracas,

CONTROP Precision Technologies Ltd from Hod Hasharon, Israel, demonstrated the SPEED-ER Ultra Long Range Observation system at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris. SPEED-ER is a multisensor observation system developed for surveillance and force protection applications. Johnny Carni, CONTROP's

Israel's General Robotics unveiled its Dogo unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) at Eurosatory 2016 in Paris. Speaking to IHS Jane's , Shahar Gal, General Robotics' vice president of business development and co-founder, said that Dogo is a mission-specific platform designed to engage individuals, rather

India and Thailand have agreed to expand defence co-operation with a view to facilitating defence trade and related industrial engagement. The agreement was announced on 18 June after talks in New Delhi between India's prime minister Narendra Modi and his visiting counterpart General Prayut