Jane's Defense News

US-based manufacturer of rapidly deployable military shelters HDT Global announced that it had acquired the assets of Spec Ops, Inc (SOI) on 26 July. SOI, headquartered in Virginia, supplies electronics, displays, and other infrastructure used in mobile command-and-control stations. Michael J.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has released details of its future Barak variant of the Merkava Mk 4 tank, saying it will feature artificial intelligence (AI) that will provide commanders with ‘recommendations’. The Barak is under development and expected to begin rolling off production

India has increased the number of domestic companies obtaining licences to undertake defence industrial activities. Citing a parliamentary reply by Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre, the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) said on 25 July that the Department of Industrial

The Spanish Navy took delivery of a training ship on 23 July that will also continue its previous duties as a government fishery support vessel. The 1,400-tonne Intermares is the first ship to be received by the navy in six years. Following delivery, the cost of running Intermares will be shared

Indian state-owned naval shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to assist Bangladesh’s Khulna Shipyard Limited (KSY) in designing and building warships, Indian Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre told parliament on 25

India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has updated its procurement processes in support of efforts to accelerate military modernisation. The changes were revealed in a document published by the MoD on 24 July and are applicable retrospectively from 21 June. The amendments, which affect mainly

Event The Islamic State conducted a co-ordinated attack on the southwestern Syrian city of Suwayda on 25 July, killing at least 215 people and wounding 180, according to the Suwayda health authority. More than half of those killed were civilians. The attack involved several suicide bombings and

The Italian Ministry of Defence has signed a EUR159 million (USD186 million) contract with the Iveco-Oto Melara consortium (CIO) for first 10 Centauro II fire-support vehicles. CIO stated in a 24 July press release that the contract covers the first tranche of 136 Centauro IIs that will be ordered

The Philippine Navy (PN) will receive two Leonardo AW159 Lynx Wildcat naval helicopters with anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities in March 2019, the state-owned Philippines News Agency (PNA) quoted PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad as saying on 23 July. Once commissioned,

Key Points It is likely that the incident in Panik was intended as Russian government’s warning to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after he attended the NATO summit. The former ruling party and its allies are likely to launch a political comeback ahead of the general election in 2019 by

AT LEAST 96 people were killed and 176 others were wounded when two Islamic State suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a market place in the city of Suweida and in another unspecified nearby district in Syria's Suweida governorate on 25 July, Ikhbariyah TV and Reuters reported. Reports did

AT LEAST 31 people were killed and 28 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated their explosives targeting a police van near a polling station in the Eastern Bypass area of the city of Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan province on 25 July, Dawn and Reuters reported. The Islamic State

China’s actions in recent years in the South China Sea (SCS), including its island-building and base-construction activities at the sites it occupies in the Spratly Islands, have heightened concerns that the country is rapidly gaining effective control of the SCS, the Congressional Research

FLIR Systems revealed a technology refresh for the UltraForce 275 and UltraForce 350 multi-sensor gimbal turrets at Farnborough International Airshow 2018. The low size weight and power (SWAP) systems developed for integration on small lightweight manned and unmanned airborne platforms now enable

Leonardo unveiled its new Spider airborne communications intelligence (COMINT) system at the 2018 Farnborough Air Show. SPIDER has been developed in the UK and operates in the 20 MHz to 6 GHz band, is designed to “detect, identify, analyse and geolocate” emissions. Jan Boyes, head of

SteelRock Technologies (SR) conducted its hard launch during the Farnborough International Airshow. The UK start up is marketing its family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and soft-kill UAV countermeasures and unveiled the WO3 Protector Counter-IED UAV at the show. Designed by a serving

Hungary's Ministry of Defence has announced a tender for 81 mm medium mortars to replace its 50 Soviet-made 82-BM-37 82 mm mortars. The tender is for 40 mortars, with an option for 20 more, 24 fire control systems, and a logistic package. The tender also includes 28,000 high explosive (HE), 7,500

Jordan’s King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) has developed a weaponised unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) under a private venture. A complete system comprises the UGV, handheld control unit and a lightweight communications backpack. According to company specifications, the 250

NATO’s new so-called Package on the South, approved by allied leaders at their 11-12 July summit in Brussels, to create a more “coherent approach” to security across the Middle East and North Africa is a mixed bag of substance and window dressing designed to rebalance NATO’s

Portugal will deploy six Pandur II 8x8 armoured vehicles and an additional 45 troops to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) to provide additional mobility and protection for its contingent. Plans are being made to deploy the