Jane's Defense News

A UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Raytheon Sentinel R1 surveillance aircraft has been despatched to Cyprus as part of a build-up of coalition assets in advance of a potential strike against Syria. Open-source tracking picked up the ADS-B transponder of the RAF aircraft, serial number JZ690, as it took off

The European Defence Agency (EDA) and national defence technology experts are mulling how to build on the results of a recently completed EDA research project that involved swarmed but heterogeneous sensor platforms. Two of the central problems now awaiting solution are how to generate sufficient

NATO and other international organisations are grappling to frame a response, military or legal, to cyber attacks that fall short of war but pose potentially deadly threats to society. “The allies now find themselves in a sort of ‘Article Four-and-a-half’ situation today, caught

Rolls-Royce and Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) have signed an agreement to jointly assemble MTU Series 8000 engines in India that will power navy and coastguard vessels. They will assemble the 16-cylinder and 20-cylinder MTU Series 8000 engines at state-owned GSL’s new facility in Goa, the

Key Points Russia has said the Syrians shot down five of eight missiles launched by Israeli jets on 9 April The Israelis nevertheless still hit a hangar at T4 airbase The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said that Syrian air defences were able to shoot down Israeli stand-off missiles on 9

Nearly 170 UK Royal Air Force (RAF) student pilots are waiting to complete their flight training because of blockages in the service’s training organisations preventing them from moving to the next stage in their flying courses. The issue appears to have dramatically escalated since June 2016

Event On 11 April 2018, a German humanitarian worker was abducted by armed men near Ayorou in the western Tillabéri region close to the border with Mali He was returning from an assessment mission when his vehicle was ambushed by eight gunmen on four motorbikes. His four Nigerien colleagues

BAE Systems has invested GBP10 million (USD14.2 million) in its Maritime Integration & Support Centre (MISC) in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, which will facilitate research into technologies such as artificial intelligence, information and electronic warfare, unmanned vehicles, and new weapons.

Boeing has entered an industrial partnership with Indian companies Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Mahindra Defence Systems (MDS) to support the local production of its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. In a joint statement issued 12 April the three companies said their arrangement

The Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil) has acquired three vessels from Norwegian company Solstad Farstad. The Brazilian Navy and Solstad Farstad signed a deal on 4 April for three Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessels, constructed between 2010 and 2011, to be refitted as support vessels (Navios de

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has begun work on a new programme that aims to bolster the hardware side of electronic system security. The System Security Integrated through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) programme aims to protect systems against broad classes of hardware

Event On 10 April, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of its United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) to April 2019. MINUJUSTH replaced the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in October 2017 initially for a six-month period, with the aim of

Following the decimation of its Pascagoula River shipbuilding facility as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has revealed plans to restore the site to support existing ship construction and modernisation efforts. In addition to supporting current activities,

Event On 12 April 2018, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Mazahir Panahov announced the preliminary results of the snap presidential election on 11 April, according to which, incumbent President Ilham Aliyev won his fourth term in office with 86.03% of the vote. The main

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) scrambled its fighter aircraft a total of 904 times in fiscal year 2017 (FY 2017) in response to foreign military aircraft approaching the country’s airspace, the Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Tokyo has reported. It was a decrease of 22.6%

Key Points An LNA spokesperson has denied reports of Khalifa Haftar’s illness. However, French media, including Le Monde , has continued to maintain the reports’ veracity. Haftar’s potential incapacity, if not death, would produce a leadership vacuum in the LNA, which in recent

Key Points A rescue service provider will soon deploy equipment with a larger capacity for the Royal Australian Navy Equipment will improve naval submarine rescue capabilities of Australia and the region Australia’s naval submarine rescue capabilities have been enhanced with new hyperbaric

Boeing will look to leverage its expansive industrial partnerships in South Korea to support its bid to supply its P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) to the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN). Matt Carreon, Boeing’s head of global sales for the P-8, told Jane’s in an interview that

Lockheed Martin and the Joint Program Office (JPO) have completed developmental flight testing of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), it was announced on 12 April. The milestone, which was slightly delayed from the end of 2017, was achieved about 17 years and approximately USD60

Australian aerospace company Hawker Pacific is to be acquired by Jet Aviation, a Swiss-based subsidiary of General Dynamics, for USD250 million. Hawker Pacific said in a press release on 12 April that it had entered an agreement with Jet Aviation to facilitate the transaction, which is subject to