Jane's Defense News

The United States is preventing a shipment of weapons reaching government forces in the Central African Republic (CAR), according to a statement released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 22 October. The statement noted that Russia sent an initial instalment of weapons and ammunition to

The Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) will receive a battalion of Sprut-SDM1 125 mm self-propelled anti-tank guns (SPATGs), VDV commander Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov told Russian media during a visit to the Volgograd Tractor Plant (VgTZ) on 19 October. “Under the State Armament Programme,

A Spanish Air Force KC-130H conducted air-to-air refuelling of a French Air Force Caracal helicopter at the beginning of the month, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, announced on its website on 22 October. The trials conducted from

Turkey has recorded about USD1.5 billion in defence and aerospace exports to date during 2018, and is aiming to reach USD2 billion by the end of the year. The USD1.5 billion represents an annual rise of 14%, which was attributed to a number of major exportable technologies including rotorcraft,

Tests are upcoming in 2019 for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin systems competing for the US Army’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) programme, a top acquisition priority to replace the legacy Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). PrSM and similar projects could assume extra urgency as the United

The United States has recently conducted maritime missions in the Arctic in the form of US Coast Guard (USCG) and US Navy (USN) operations. USCG Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) completed the second mission on 18 October of its Arctic West Summer 2018 deployment to study stratified ocean dynamics in the

The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) has acquired Kh-31 supersonic air-to-surface missiles with its new MiG-29M/M2 multirole fighters, a photograph released by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s spokesperson on 19 October revealed. The photograph showed Sisi with EAF personnel in front of a two-seat

The China North Industries Corporation (Norinco) – China’s largest manufacturer of military vehicles and artillery systems – has said it is on target to post record annual turnover and profit. The state-owned group said in a recent press release that its sales revenues in the

Japan’s newly appointed defence minister, Takeshi Iwaya, has outlined a commitment to involve local industry in the programme to replace the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Mitsubishi F-2 fighter aircraft. However, speaking during a press conference on 5 October, Iwaya also rejected

Key Points Armed forces of Japan, the Philippines, and the United States have demonstrated their joint amphibious assault capabilities at a military exercise Drills have been designed to further enhance amphibious interoperability between the three countries Japan and the Philippines have each

Minnesota-based conglomerate 3M has launched a new lightweight, mid-level protection helmet designed with a night-vision goggle mount and mandible visor at the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference, held from 8 to 10 October in Washington, DC. Named the F70, the helmet

The US Army and the Department of Energy (DoE) are teaming up to develop cell and hydrogen infrastructure-related technologies. On 8 October the Army’s Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) and the DoE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable

The US Army has identified USD25 billion from lower priority programmes to funnel towards its six key modernisation priorities. Service leaders, however, are holding off on disclosing the losers until they send their fiscal year 2020 (FY 2020) budget request to Congress in February 2019. Speaking

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has revealed a new autonomous improvised explosive device (IED) detection system based on its SAHAR family of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The system is “a robotic engineering scout” that “integrates a combination of multiple sensors”

Having introduced its Prepar3D simulation software packages associated with company aircraft for the US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps (USMC), Lockheed Martin is looking to broaden the technology use for ground systems as well, said Adam Breed, company engineering programme manager.

Oshkosh used this year's US Army annual conference to display a new variant of its Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) A2, a programme under development for the service. Showing off a FMTV A2 6×6 cargo vehicle, vice-president and general manager for Army and Marine Corps programmes Pat

The proliferation of advanced Russian submarines combined with Kalibr missiles poses a greater threat to major European cities than its other naval platforms and weapons, the most senior US naval officer in Europe has warned. Addressing the Atlantic Council in Washington on 5 October, Admiral James

General Micro Systems (GMS) has partnered with a major cloud services provider to develop a product allowing military users to greatly improve the transmission of full-motion video (FMV) over a constrained network. The unnamed US company’s S1202-HS device would be used in combination with

South Korea’s Jain Technology, a Seoul-based company specialising in ultrasonic liquid and gas flowmeters for commercial and scientific applications, has leveraged its research and development (R&D) experience in high-precision acoustic measurement devices to produce an indigenous acoustic

Bretagne and Normandie, the last two of the French Navy’s six Aquitaine-class FREMM (frégate européenne multi-mission) anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigates, have been equipped with extended-length vertical launchers to enable them to fire the MBDA Aster 30 area-defence missile, it