Jane's Defense News

Boeing will not be selling a planned 18 US-made F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighters to Canada, the manufacturer announced on 8 December, signalling a significant casualty in the ongoing dispute between the respective governments and their flagship aerospace industries. Rather than purchase the

Key Points HSwMS Gotland and HSwMS Halland are receiving a mid-life modernisation under a SEK2.1 billion contract Both boats are receiving an additional 2 m hull section being inserted by means of a ‘cut and plug’ operation The first of two Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN) Type A 19

Germany’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has contradicted the country’s air force chief in declaring that the Panavia Tornado should be replaced by the Eurofighter Typhoon rather than the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Reuters reported on 11 December that the

Italian shipbuilder Cantiere Navale Vittoria is building four new LC23-class mechanised landing craft (LCMs) for the Italian Navy. The four craft, designed to equip the service’s new landing helicopter dock (LHD), are being built under a contract awarded by Fincantieri in the first quarter of

Argentina has received four new Bell helicopter 412EP platforms that were first approved by the US State Department in late 2015. The medium-twin helicopters were handed over to the Argentinian Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Argentina: FAA) during a ceremony at Bell’s Fort Worth facility in Texas on

Poland’s Armament Inspectorate has begun a market analysis on the possible upgrade of the T-72M1/M1D tank. “We want to modernise the T-72,” Deputy Defence Minister Bartosz Kownacki told the Gazeta Polska Codziennie daily on 8 December. “Upgrading a tank costs around PLN4

Radar manufacturer ELDIS Pardubice has been acquired by holding company Czechoslovak Group (CSG), it was announced on 11 December. A 100% stake was purchased by CSG from ELDIS Pardubice’s owners and founders, transferring the company’s airport radar technology to the holding group that

Draken International has incorporated a number of newly acquired Denel Aviation (Atlas) Cheetah fighter aircraft into its fleet of ‘Aggressor’ platforms, the ‘Red Air’ trainer provider announced on 12 December. The Florida-based company has received 12 of the former South

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has noted a number of developments for its Kfir fighter, including the conclusion of an upgrade programme for Colombia, plans to upgrade and return to service aircraft for Sri Lanka, and ongoing efforts to sell additional aircraft to a US ‘Red Air’

ONE civilian was killed when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) near his vehicle in al-Jihad district in Iraq's Baghdad province on 9 December, Iraqi News reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

ONE person was killed and four others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced by unidentified militants, detonated near a market in al-Tarmiyah in Iraq's Baghdad province on 9 December, Iraqi News reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

THREE people were wounded when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED), near shops in al-Wardiya in the town of al-Mada'in in Iraq's Baghdad province on 9 December, Iraqi News reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Key Points Test shows army can create high-quality actionable air picture In 2018, IBCS will participate in another SCOE and Red Flag event Northrop Grumman completed three weeks of live-air testing of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) in which soldiers

The Indian government will support the development of indigenous aerospace capability through public-private partnerships (PPPs) involving state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Subhash Bhamre, India’s Minister of State for Defence, has said. In line with this strategy, HAL will

Key Points On 1 December, Georgia’s State Security Service (SSSG) announced that the Chechen Islamic State militant Akhmed Chataev had blown himself up in an apartment in the capital Tbilisi during a counter-terrorism operation on 22 November. Chataev, who was formerly Imarat Kavkaz’s

Naval Group (formerly DCNS) has issued a raft of tender notices in support of efforts to identify Australian companies that can support its SEA 1000 programme to build 12 next-generation submarines for Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In request for information (RFI) documents calling for responses by

Peru’s state-run shipyard Servicios Industriales de la Marina (SIMA) has begun modernising the Peruvian Navy’s Angamos-class (U209/1200) submarines. BAP Chipana (SS 34) has been placed on the shipyard’s new syncrolift, acquired from TTS Syncrolift AS, at SIMA’s Callao

Event On 12 December 2017, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti; FSB) said that it had foiled a terrorist attack planned for the New Year celebrations in Moscow. According to Bortnikov, on 11 December in the Moscow region the FSB

The fiscal year 2018 (FY 2018) National Defense Authorization Act has been signed into law, boosting the US military’s size, adding strategic missile defence requirements, changing rules for buying commercial off-the-shelf goods, and more. The legislation, signed on 12 December by President

Turkey’s special forces have received a first batch of loitering munitions, Jane's has learned at the Gulf Defence & Aerospace exhibition in Kuwait City. The two types of loitering munitions, both developed by the country’s STM, were delivered two months ago for training purposes.