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U.S. Southern Command's work is vital to American security, American interests and American values. When there's instability or a crisis nearby, it can echo here at home, the secretary of defense said.

The Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) successfully conducted a second test of the First Stage Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) on October 28, 2021, in Promontory, Utah, as part of the development of the Navy's Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) offensive hypersonic strike capability and the Army's Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW). The offensive weapon systems will enable precise and timely strike capability against deep inland

The Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB-4) arrived in Port Victoria, Seychelles for a scheduled port visit, Oct. 29, 2021.

A call for tenders has been issued for a capability life-cycle manager (CLCM) to maintain Navy's Hobart-class destroyers.

India-Israel Joint Working Group (JWG) on Bilateral Defence Cooperation has agreed to form a Task Force to formulate a comprehensive Ten-Year Roadmap to identify new areas of cooperation.

On 28-29 October 2021, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Mircea Geoană, travelled to the Swiss Confederation.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has concluded an agreement with Egypt for the sale of two ex-Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) solid stores ships.

Norway has received new armoured engineer vehicles (AEVs) over the past month. Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) announced in a press release on 29 October that it had handed...

US Army officials were not yet aware that Microsoft's militarised HoloLens 2 augmented reality (AR) system would need several hardware and software fixes when they...

Saab Bofors Dynamics Switzerland said it has completed a private-venture development of a 120 mm Thor mortar bomb, intended to enhance firepower for smoothbore mortars.

Russia's Yantar Shipyard has launched the first of four follow-on Talwar (Project 1135.6)-class guided-missile frigates being acquired by the Indian Navy (IN) as part of...

The armed forces of India and the United Kingdom have concluded their first bilateral tri-service exercise, ‘Konkan Shakti-21'.

South Korean company LIG Nex1 has won a bid to locally develop and produce a new close-in weapon system (CIWS) to be deployed with Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN)...

The British Army aims to have the first enhancements to its Watchkeeper tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (TUAV) system ready by 2026. The project to rejuvenate the...

The first F-15QA Ababil combat aircraft for Qatar have departed Boeing's Missouri production facility for the Gulf emirate.

The Royal Thai Army (RTA) has started operating a new factory to produce 5.56 mm ammunition, it has been announced. The RTA said the facility, in the northeastern...

EDA Member States have agreed on a new work roadmap for the coming years (2021-2023) that will guide the Agency’s efforts to mitigate the implications of the EU Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) on the defence sector.

With the previous roadmap 2018-2020 successfully accomplished (some activities are in the final stages of implementation or scheduled to be continued in the future), the participating members of EDA’s REACH project - all Member States plus Norway - have now elaborated a new comprehensive EDA Roadmap 2021–2023 for REACH and related EU Chemicals/Waste Regulations that was recently endorsed by the Agency’s Steering Board.

The new roadmap foresees two different categories of activities:

• generic activities and tasks, which are conducted in a continuous manner, including administrative tasks, interaction, and monitoring/coordinating activities with stakeholders; and
• specific activities and tasks, which have a specific scope/duration and are therefore prioritised with respect to the sequence of implementation, including activities related to the Commission REACH Revision 2022, EDA’s Codes of Conduct on REACH and Classification, Labelling, and Packaging (CLP) Defence Exemptions, the EDA Member States’ Common Position on Ammunition Classification under REACH and specific proposals stemming from the 2020 EDA Study on the Impact (other than REACH and CLP) EU Chemicals/Waste Regulations on the Defence Sector.

Since the adoption of the roadmap, EDA has disseminated it as widely as possible to relevant stakeholders and continues to work closely with Member States’ REACH experts (including the EDA REACH Task Force at the technical level), the European Commission, the European Chemicals Agency ECHA and the defence industry to advance in its practical implementation. 

More information:

• REACH (EDA project page)
• REACH implementation and impact on defence discussed (webnews, April 2021)

The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) is to start the process to assess whether the submarine construction facility it was preparing for the cancelled Attack-class...

Boeing has delivered the first of four KC-46A Pegasus aerial refuelling tanker aircraft on order for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF).