Jane's Defense News

The underground wall that Israel is building to prevent Palestinian militants tunnelling under the border of the Gaza Strip will be completed within two years, Major General Eyal Zamir, head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Southern Command, told reporters on 9 August. “In the coming

Key Points The Qiwaat Suriyya al-Dimoqratiyya (QSD), or Syrian Democratic Forces, entered the Syrian city of Raqqa on 6 June to capture it from the Islamic State. The QSD’s rapid advance has slowed as the group presses further into the city, as a consequence of the Islamic State’s

Lockheed Martin is showcasing a new air and missile defence radar designed to enable rapid and affordable upgrades. With its active electronically scanned array (AESA) Radar for Engagement and Surveillance (ARES) system, Lockheed Martin is developing a modular open-architecture capability

Key Points Lockheed Martin is in talks with DARPA about extending its SPIDER work The company developed an ultra-thin imaging lens that compacts telescope power Lockheed Martin is in talks with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) about extending the Segmented Planar Imaging

Key Points Malaysia has made its first naval deployment to a new installation near an island it believes is part of Putrajaya’s territory Move may herald more frequent deployments of Malaysian naval assets into the disputed region, but this is unlikely to affect bilateral relations between

Israel: Al-Masra covers Temple Mount tensions On 17 July, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)'s front group in Yemen, Ansar al-Sharia, released the 56th edition of its Al-Masra electronic newspaper. The bulk of the paper focused on issues related to the Israeli government and the occupation of

Key Points North Korea threatened to launch missiles over Japan that would land near Guam as part of an increasingly fierce rhetorical feud with US President Donald Trump. Other administration officials have been quietly pushing a diplomatic face on the dispute, while considering how to respond if

Event Kenya's Independent Election and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) will on 11 August announce finalised presidential election results. Preliminary results indicate President Uhuru Kenyatta of the ruling Jubilee party has defeated opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) candidate Raila Odinga by

Event The opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mesa de la Unidad Democrática: MUD) announced on 9 August that it will run for regional elections in December, in a process where 23 state governors will be elected. The move follows claims of electoral fraud against the election on 30 July of

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a United Kingdom-based pro-opposition monitoring group, reported on 5 August that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied pro-government forces had captured the town of Al-Sukhna in Syria's central Homs governorate from the Islamic State. Government

A MAN - identified as 37-year-old Hamou Benlatreche - was shot and arrested by police after attempting to escape his vehicle on the A16 motorway in the town of Marquise near Boulogne-sur-Mer in France's Pas-de-Calais department on 9 August, Al-Jazeera, Reuters, and Le Parisien reported. According to

Key Points Russian Helicopters to undertake hot-weather testing of Ka-226T in Iran. Tests come as Russia and Iran are working together on potential helicopter programmes and UAV development. Russian Helicopters announced on 9 August that it was to begin usability testing of the Kamov Ka-226T

Saudi Arabia’s multibillion-dollar order for General Dynamics Land Systems Canada (GDLS-C) Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs) could be jeopardised by the emergence of video footage showing Canadian-made vehicles purportedly being used in a security operation in a Shia area in the east of the

In Janikhail, Paktia, security forces retaliated after Taliban militants raided check posts in the district.

Event Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Alfonso Dastis signalled on 6 August that the country will maintain a flexible approach with regards to EU-UK negotiations over Brexit. He told Spain's ABC daily newspaper that he "doesn't condition a London – EU agreement on recovering

Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) posted declines in earnings and profits in the second quarter of 2017, the group announced on 11 August. The company said its earnings before interest and tax for the quarter ending 30 June declined year on year (y/y) by 5% to SGD130.8 million

AT LEAST two people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated their explosives targeting a security checkpoint in Bini Hissar locality in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on 9 August, Tolo News reported. There were conflicting reports about whether a fatality caused by the attack was a civilian or the

Jane’s sources have shed new light on a hitherto unseen anti-ship weapon/unmanned air vehicle (UAV)-like system – centred around a wing-in-ground-effect optimised airframe – that was initially circulated on Chinese internet discussion forums around May 2017 in a Mandarin language

Estonia plans to hold a cyber training exercise for Europe defence ministers to test how they would deal with the fallout from a major cyber attack. Estonia currently holds the EU rotating six-month presidency until end of 2017. The strategic table-top exercise, dubbed ‘EU CYBRID 2017’,

The Indian Air Force (IAF) deployed in mid-July two of its five Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 military transport aircraft to Panagarh in eastern India to support Indian Army (IA) deployments along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LoAC) with China. Official sources told Jane’s on 28 July that