Defence`s Feeds

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

Negotiations resumed in Canberra on 8 October between the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) and French shipbuilder Naval Group with hopes of an early break in the impasse over a strategic partnering agreement (SPA) for Australia’s AUD50 billion (USD36 billion) Future Submarine programme.

Australia could only achieve its intended fleet of 12 next-generation submarines before about 2054 by compressing the proposed two-year delivery drumbeat, according to a report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) think tank released on 9 October. Examining issues involved in the

The US government released a report on 5 October outlining the current state of its defence industrial base, and plans to improve the sector’s resilience. The report, named Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United

Endeavor Robotics has revealed its Centuar robot, the chosen design for the US Army’s widely anticipated Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II (MTRS Inc II) effort. The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) will be larger than the company’s PackBot offering – it weighs less than

Meggitt has booked its first orders with law enforcement clients for the company’s new FATS 300 multi-screen trainer, and is marketing it as an upgrade or new system for military users, Jay Ayala, a representative for Meggitt’s virtual training systems, told Jane’s ahead of the

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has launched the first Soryu-class diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries. The 84 m-long boat, which has been named Oryu (with pennant number SS 511), entered

Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya announced on 5 October that Tokyo has decided not to participate in an international fleet review hosted by South Korea after rejecting Seoul’s request that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s (JMSDF’s) official flag is not flown at the

Key Points The former Army captain will now face leftist opponent Fernando Haddad in the second round of the presidential election, with Bolsonaro enjoying a surge in support. Both candidates will now move to build alliances, the centre-right vote will prove the deciding factor with Bolsonaro

The first of two air-defence variant FREMM (frégate européenne multimissions) frigates for the French Navy is set for launch in the first half of 2019, according to shipbuilder Naval Group. The ship, to be named Alsace , is now physically complete in Naval Group’s assembly hall in

IN A STATEMENT released on 27 September, Haris Hatzimehelakis, an anarchist militant group, claimed responsibility for detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) targeting a National League office, in Treviso in Italy's Treviso province on 12 August, 325 No State reported. No casualties were

The US Navy (USN) is seeking a re-design of the outer-wing panels (OWPs) for its Boeing F/A-18A-D ‘classic’ Hornet fighters to support a service-life extension programme (SLEP). The service disclosed on 5 October that the current OWPs fitted to the 617 F/A-18A-D Hornets fielded by

ONE police officer was killed and two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced by unidentified militants on a roadside, detonated in Farah Roud district in Afghanistan's Farah province on 25 September, The New York Times reported. No group immediately claimed