Defence`s Feeds

The G5 Sahel initiative that brings together Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger is on its way to meeting its aim of fielding a 5,000 strong joint anti-terrorist force by March 2018, General Mohamed Znagui Sid’Ahmed Ely, the chief of its Security and Defence Department, has told

The new Czech defence minister, Karla Slechtova, who was appointed to her post on 13 December, has announced that she will order thorough evaluations of a number of key upcoming procurements for the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR), contracts for which were prepared but not signed by her

US lawmakers are campaigning harder for a block buy of next-generation aircraft carriers to help curb costs of the nation’s largest and most expensive warships. Such an acquisition would mark the first time since 1988 that the United States has sought to buy more than one carrier at a time.

Event The leader of Somalia’s opposition Wadajir party, Abdirahman Abdikashur Warsame, had been detained by “government militia forces” on allegations of receiving bribes from unspecified foreign countries, local media reported on 18 December. The attorney-general stated the same

US and Brazilian defence and aerospace companies Boeing and Embraer announced on 21 December that they are in engaged talks examining potential merger proposals. Both companies emphasised that the talks are tentative and are not necessarily expected to yield a transaction. In addition, the

Ambitions by British Army chiefs to have an acquisition strategy for the flagship Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) programme firmed up by the end of 2017 appear to have been dashed by the UK government’s National Security Capability Review (NSCR). Senior British Army sources told