Jane's Defense News

Jane’s OSINT snapshots are brief analyses of recent national security-related news using lesser-visited online sources. Jack Barclay examines how Islamic State supporters are disseminating security instructions for smartphone users to thwart intelligence surveillance. An online privacy and

Key Points Demirtas’s 2016 arrest, among others, was highly likely to have been politically motivated, borne out of the government’s control over appointments of judges and prosecutors. With Turkey unlikely to comply with the ECHR order, the EU is unlikely to respond with anything

Defence Minister Karl Erjavec told the Slovenian National Assembly’s defence committee on 14 November that Slovenia had signed a government-to-government agreement with the US on the procurement of 38 Oshkosh 4×4 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs) for the army’s medium-sized

A British man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for smuggling fighter aircraft parts to Iran. Alexander George was sentenced in the Old Bailey, London, on 22 November after being found guilty of shipping parts to Tehran for Russian-built MiG and US-built McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has delivered four high-resolution shortwave infrared (SWIR) cameras to the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). These will be part of a unique payload for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial system (UAS). UTC’s indium gallium arsenide

BAE Systems Australia has confirmed its selection of Lockheed Martin Australia and Saab Australia as partners to deliver combat systems integration in the programme to build Hunter-class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The announcement, on 23 November, endorses an Australian

The EU released its draft framework for a future relationship with the United Kingdom on 22 November. It embraces all envisioned aspects between the two sides after Brexit and will be endorsed by EU leaders and UK Prime Minister Theresa May at an extraordinary summit in Brussels on 25 November. The

The EU-funded maritime situational awareness project known as Ocean2020 to integrate manned platforms with air, surface, and underwater unmanned systems has now produced a package of agreed requirements to guide its technical work on the capabilities it will demonstrate in 2019 and 2020, according

Bell has signed an agreement for the launch of a new innovation centre in Oman as part of an offset agreement with the Omani government, the company confirmed to Jane’s . The agreement, signed with the Omani Authority for Partnership for Development (OAPFD), sees Bell partner with Techshop

The Jordan Armed forces (JAF) renamed a brigade after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 20 November. “The move comes in recognition of the brotherly ties between Jordan and the UAE as well as an appreciation for the support of the UAE

Do not expect Democrats in the US House of Representatives to take a hacksaw to the national security budget, defence and political analysts say. But the Trump administration should be prepared for increased military operational oversight, as well as resistance to plans to modernise the nuclear

The US Marine Corps (USMC) has acquired 32 InstantEye Mk-3 GEN5-D1 small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs), including a total of 64 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), from InstantEye Robotics: a division of Physical Sciences Inc based in Andover, Massachusetts. An InstantEye spokesman confirmed to

The United States Government handed over 12 Mack Bastion armoured personnel carriers to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) on 19 November, the US Embassy in Kenya announced. The vehicles were officially handed over at the Kahawa Barracks in Nairobi. The US embassy said they will be used to improve

The Australian Department of Defence (DoD) has awarded a tranche of new contracts to local companies to undertake research and development (R&D) in innovative military technologies. The DoD said on 22 November that the five contracts total more than AUD12 million (USD8.7 million) and will

A joint initiative has been launched by Australia and the UK to support research into integrating advanced materials onto military platforms. A statement on the Australian government’s online business portal on 21 November said the project is intended to “uncover innovative joining

Event The Islamic State was forced to withdraw from the Tuloul al-Safa area on 17 November, in response to an ongoing operation by the Syrian army to secure the desert between Damascus and Suwayda provinces in southern Syria. Islamic State units based in these areas were responsible for the

Israel has not made a final decision on acquiring a more advanced version of the Boeing F-15 multirole fighter, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) told Jane’s . “All possibilities regarding this issue are under IDF, IAF [Israeli Air Force], and the defence establishment's examination, and

ADB SAFEGATE has agreed a GBP22 million (USD28.4 million) deal to acquire the Airport Systems (AS) business of Ultra Electronics Holdings, with a planned completion date of 31 January 2019. The purchase price includes a deferred GBP2 million payment to be made after “certain commercial

The New Zealand government has signed an agreement with Airbus to collaborate on unmanned systems and related technologies. The government said in a statement that the letter of intent (LOI) will support the testing in New Zealand of unmanned aircraft technologies and collaboration on developing

US High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) manufacturer AM General announced on 1 November that it had made an investment in Mandus Group, a supplier of innovative artillery technology. The investment, the nature or value of which was not disclosed, aims to accelerate the deployment of