Jane's Defense News

THE Danish Supreme Court on 8 June upheld a decision to strip the citizenship of 56-year-old Danish-Moroccan man Sam Mansour who had been convicted of inciting terrorism and jailed for four years in December 2014, Reuters reported. The high court initially passed the decision in July 2015, before

Dassault Aviation has completed the repurchase of 5.5% of its share capital from Airbus Group, the company announced on 10 June. The 502,282 share buyback was performed as part of a total Airbus divestment of 1.33 million Dassault Aviation shares, equivalent to 14.6% of the company. The remaining

Key Points In an extremely tight run-off vote on 5 June, the market's favourite candidate, economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, was elected as Peru's new president to replace incumbent Ollanta Humala. Kuczynski will assume office on 28 July. Kuczynski's election underlines Peru's strong commitment to

Brazilian aerospace and defence manufacturer Embraer announced the appointment of a new chief executive officer (CEO) on 9 June. Current CEO Frederico Fleury Curado is to relinquish the role in July in order to "concentrate on other professional and personal activities". The position

Israeli electro-optical manufacturer Meprolight has won a tender to provide the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) with reflex sights for 7.62 mm and 5.56 mm firearms. The contract includes the rapid delivery of "thousands" of MEPRO MOR multipurpose reflex sights and maintenance, it said on 5

India's Special Forces (SF) are desperately short of combat free fall (CFF) parachutes, as the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been unable to develop them after 12 years of research, costing almost INR107.50 million (USD1.62 million). The country's Comptroller and

Iraqi special forces entered Al-Fallujah on 8 June, but divisions between the forces assembled for the offensive have begun to emerge in public. The Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said its troops, who are the special forces that have spearheaded previous offensives against Islamic State

Key Points The high-impact nature of the VBIED and the apparent complexity of the planning, involving multiple individuals each responsible for different aspects of the attack, leading to the attack indicate the increased sophistication of the Teyrênbazê Azadiya Kurdistan's operations.

UK defence procurement minister Philip Dunne officially opened the new Lockheed Martin UK (LMUK) AFV turret production facility at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on 9 June. It has been constructed at a cost of GBP5.5 million (USD8 million), bringing the total investment at the site to more than GBP23

Lockheed Martin has confirmed interest within the Asia Pacific to procure used P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) and S-3 Viking anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft. Countries linked with potential purchases include Vietnam and South Korea, although a Lockheed Martin spokesperson did not

Pakistan's Ministry of Defence Production (MoDP) and Ministry of Science and Technology have signed an agreement to collaborate on researching and developing (R&D) military products, the government announced on 9 June. Rana Tanveer Hussain, who heads both ministries, said in a statement that

Peru's new warship, BAP Ferré (PM 211), is travelling from South Korea to the Peruvian port of Callao, temporarily docking on 6 June in Guam. The former ROKS Gyeongju (PCC 758) is a Pohang-class corvette constructed by Hyundai Heavy Industries that was commissioned in 1985. Ferré weighs

Key Points Several Marina de Guerra del Peru (MGP) capability programmes are passing prominent milestones in 2016 Once completed, the capability augmentations would see the MGP deploying arguably one of the most modern navies in its region The Peruvian Navy (Marina de Guerra del Peru: MGP) is

Key Points A former US research vessel that was donated to the Philippines has arrived in the country Platform will improve the Philippine Navy's understanding of its underwater topography A former Melville-class oceanographic research ship belonging to the United States' Office of Naval Research

Key Points French Armed Forces will be the launch customer for the new AT4 CS HE and AT4CS ER variants Initial tranche will be delivered to the French Armed Forces in Q3-Q4 2017 Saab Dynamics is in the final phase of qualification of three 84 mm AT4 CS (anti-tank, confined space) round variants

Singapore Technologies (ST) Electronics, the advanced electronics and communications business arm of defence prime ST Engineering, has unveiled a new lightweight radio-frequency (RF) payload for high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the CommunicAsia 2016 exhibition

One corollary of Australia's acquisition of new amphibious vessel, destroyer, and support ship designs from Spanish shipbuilder Navantia is the increasingly close relationship now being forged between the Royal Australian Navy and the Armada Española. Julian Kerr and Richard Scott report The

EVENT On 6 June 2016, a single gunman killed several members of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate at their office in Baqa'a, a town 30 km north of Amman, inhabited by descendants of Palestinian refugees. The office is responsible for the town, but also for the province it is in. Victims of

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) marked the first operational deployment of an upgraded ANZAC (MEKO 200)-class frigate when HMAS Perth (157) departed the naval base at Rockigham, Western Australia, on 7 June for the Middle East. The vessel will support multinational counter-piracy and -smuggling

BAE Systems is undertaking a project to expand its understanding of Vietnam, with a view to potential market penetration. The move coincides with the United States' recent decision to lift its long-standing military embargo on the Southeast Asian country. Nick Glover, BAE Systems' Southeast Asia