Jane's Defense News

EVENT On 5 January, locals from the Puente Piedra district of Lima Province began a week-long protest against fees charged by road operator Peruvian Rutas de Lima. Although an increase in toll charges was approved in August for three tranches south of the Pan American highway and one tranche

Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky will demonstrate its affiliate PZL Mielec M28 short take-off and landing (STOL) twin-turboprop transport aircraft in Brazil as part of a two-month tour across Caribbean and Latin American countries. A looming Brazilian Army effort to acquire fixed-wing aircraft could have

Airbus has reached an agreement to sell its stake in Atlas Elektronik to joint venture partner Thysenkrupp; a deal that comes more than two years after Airbus first announced its intention to sell its holding in the naval and marine systems group. Terms of the transaction - under which Thyssenkrupp

Beijing has warned the international community that any attempts to "internationalise and judicialise" the South China Sea territorial disputes will only make it harder for the issues to be resolved, but the likely next US secretary of state suggested Washington would soon take a tougher

The relationship between US president-elect Donald Trump and the US intelligence community (IC) will be further strained after his inauguration on 20 January, following the leak of an incendiary 'dossier' on 10 January. That dossier - released on website BuzzFeed News - purported to reveal evidence

India's Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) launched the second Kalvari (Scorpene)-class diesel-electric submarine on order for the Indian Navy (IN) on 12 January in Mumbai. Named Khanderi, the boat is the second of six of the class being licence-built by the company, and is expected to be

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme passed a milestone in early 2017 with the delivery of the 200th aircraft, it was announced on 12 January. The milestone saw the second F-35A for Japan (AX-2) delivered to the international training fleet at Luke Air Force

The United Kingdom has returned to service its Boeing E-3D Sentry Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) aircraft following a grounding order that was issued late last year, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told IHS Jane's on 12 January. The MoD confirmed that "the Sentry force has returned

The US Navy is still eyeing a future fighter aircraft programme, tentatively called the F/A-XX, that is likely to be unmanned or optionally manned and emerge as soon as the late-2020s, according to outgoing Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. "The F/A-XX is pretty early in the process now ... you

The US-led coalition has helped to reduce the effectiveness of the suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (SVBIEDs) that the Islamic State fighters defending Mosul are using against Iraqi forces, Colonel Brett Sylvia, the commander of the Task Force Strike advise-and-assist mission, told

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Sikorsky the contract to develop Phase 3 of its Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) programme, it was announced on 11 January. The announcement, which was made by Sikorsky's parent company Lockheed Martin, will see

Key Points ECOWAS negotiators are likely to be forced into offering immunity to Jammeh but will insist that he makes way for rival Adama Barrow to be inaugurated. Any refusal by Jammeh to depart increases the likelihood of swift military intervention, most probably led by neighbour Senegal.

Japanese military aircraft entered South Korea's air defence identification zone (ADIZ) hundreds of times in 2016, mainly in the airspace south of Jeju Island off the country's southern coast, South Korean military officials were quoted by the Yonhap news agency as saying on 12 January. The

Lockheed Martin is to demonstrate the PZL Mielec M28 'Bryza' across the Caribbean and Latin American regions in the coming weeks as it looks to sign up new military, government, and commercial customers for the short take-off and landing (STOL) twin-turboprop transport aircraft. The tour, which was

The Polish Ministry of National Defence (MND) is planning a new Strategic Defence Review (SDR) to be completed by the end of March, insider sources told IHS Jane's. Polish MND officials have stated the SDR is needed as previous studies of the country's long-term situation were either too

Two Russian producers of intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems are experiencing difficulties in supplying their products on time due to unrelated production issues. The Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (MIT), producer of the Yars mobile ICBM, has experienced problems with

Swedish defence and technology group Saab has announced that it will move its United States headquarters from Virginia to an existing office in New York. The move is part of an agreement with New York State under which "several incentives" will be provided to encourage Saab to invest in

British soldiers have trained alongside Sierra Leonean counterparts for the first time as part of a wider increase in British support for Africa, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 7 January. It said that 90 soldiers from the 1st Queen's Dragoons Guards deployed alongside 25 Sierra

The Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) has earmarked EUR10.6 million (USD11.2 million) to construct a new purpose-built headquarters for its joint cyber-defence command at the Retamares base in Pozuelo de Alarcon, just west of Madrid. Bidding for the contract will be open until 21 February and the

Key Points The USN is considering a future capability of networked autonomous surface and undersea vehicles Programme transitions may begin as early as 2017 The US Navy (USN) is envisioning a future surface combatant force that incorporates a network of autonomous surface and undersea vehicles