Jane's Defense News

Event On 7 September 2018, the Maldives’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning the United States’ intent to issue sanctions against the country. This follows a 5 September announcement in which the US said it would “take action” against individuals

Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is looking to support the development of its Australian joint venture (JV) to enable the new company to head up a range of local missile manufacturing programmes and lead efforts to secure exports. The JV was established earlier in 2018 through an

Israeli unmanned systems manufacturer Aeronautics announced on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on 29 August that key personnel from the company had been summoned to the State Attorney’s Office for a hearing on potential export control violations related to the company’s Orbiter 1K loitering

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Amey as the lead on its Regional Prime and National Housing Prime contracts, removing Carillion from the programme following its insolvency in January 2018. The contracts to manage military infrastructure and housing services was previously provided

Australian company TAE Aerospace will develop a turbine engine maintenance facility in Bundamba, southeast Queensland, to support in-country sustainment of the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF’s) Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. The new facility

The Croatian Armed Forces (CAF) have initiated a programme to upgrade existing inventories of tactical communications systems with software defined radios (SDRs), service officials told Jane’s . According to Colonel Ivica Celik, head of department for the CAF’s Deployable Communication

Denel’s acting Group CEO, Michael Kgobe, has told a South African parliamentary committee that the company is taking major steps to rebuild itself in the wake of a major liquidity crisis. Addressing the South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises on 29 August,

The Ecuadorian Army Aviation service officially received a Sikorsky/PZL M28 Skytruck aircraft (registered AEE-208) on 28 August at its base at Pastaza, where its Aviation Group No 44 is headquartered. The new aircraft arrived in Ecuador four days previously at Shell Mera, where it conducted

FIVE soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED), that had been emplaced by unidentified militants, which detonated on the Kiunga and Sankuri Road in Kenya's Lamu county on 29 August, Capital FM reported. The soldiers were engaged in a

ONE person was killed and 10 others wounded when a magnetic improvised explosive device (IED), attached to a military vehicle by unidentified militants, detonated outside the residence of a police chief, near the Jami Mosque in the city of Herat in Afghanistan's Herat province on 29 August, Pajhwok

AT LEAST 11 people - including five security forces personnel - were killed and 16 others wounded when an Islamic State suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) detonated at a checkpoint in the town of Al-Qaim in Iraq's Anbar province on 29 August, AFP and Reuters reported. The

Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has proposed a defence budget of JPY5.29 trillion (USD47.8 billion) for fiscal year 2019 to put a stronger emphasis on three new defence domains – cyber, space, and electronic warfare (EW) – as part of the country’s emerging defence policy.

Milrem SIA has appointed as managing director Ugis Romanovs, who will help facilitate growth of the company’s new Latvian division. Taking on the role from the beginning of September, Romanovs will help expand the Estonian company’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services in

Montenegro unveiled the Mašan, its first domestically-produced armoured vehicle, in Podgorica on 29 August. The 4x4 vehicle is produced by Bijelo Polje-based Montenegro Armour Group (MAG), founded in 2017. The vehicle was presented to Montenegrin Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Ministry of

A Philippine Navy (PN) frigate ran aground near Half Moon (also known as Hasa-Hasa) Shoal late on 29 August during a routine patrol in the South China Sea. Colonel Noel Detoyato, chief of the public affairs office for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), was quoted by the state-owned

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received a new flight instrumentation kit designed by the Department of Defence’s (DoD’s) research and development arm – the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group – to facilitate non-intrusive testing and evaluation.

Raytheon BBN is leading an effort to develop an analytical ‘question and answer’ system that will be able to explain its own results. The Explainable Question Answering System (EQUAS) is part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Explainable Artificial

The US Army will explore using Rheinmetall’s ADS active protection system (APS), among others, on its Stryker wheeled combat vehicles after determining that the Artis Iron Curtain APS was not a good fit. Rheinmetall Active Protection GmbH (formerly ADS Gesellschaft für aktive

Key Points Russia has announced a major naval exercise in the Mediterranean It has a missile cruiser, a destroyer, five frigates, three missile corvettes, and two submarines in the region The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) provided an explanation for a seemingly unprecedented build-up of naval

During the week following Russia’s annual Army 2018 defence show, held near Moscow on 21–26 August, news emerged that none of the fifth-generation conventional weapons that have been the centrepiece of the nation’s military modernisation effort will be taken into series production.