Jane's Defense News

The Spanish Navy is concerned over how it can finance replacing its existing fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, having not been involved in developing the aircraft currently on the market, according to the navy's commander. With the McDonnell Douglas/BAE VA.2 (EAV-8B Harrier II/Plus) jump jets used

Boeing has restructured its European leadership team, the company announced on 17 March, adding a regional hierarchy to its management. Michael Arthur, who had served as president of Boeing's UK and Ireland operations, will also add the title of president of Boeing Europe. Brian Moran, who had

The potential demobilisation of Colombia's FARC guerrilla group and its possible consequences for transnational crime around the Darien Gap on Colombia and Panama's border was a key topic during the latest Binational Border Commission's (COMBIFRON's) meeting, highlighting the difficult peacetime

Israel's Controp Precision Technologies has entered a licenced manufacturing agreement with Indian company Defsys Solutions, it was announced on 17 March. Controp said in a statement that the accord enables Defsys Solutions to promote and locally produce the Israeli company's electro-optical

The US Army is continuing to toll out the integration of cyber attacks in large-scale rotations as the service looks to improve the cyber element of its training and ultimately help inform doctrine in this area. During a January rotation at the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin,

EVENT Burundi's government on 17 March released 41 youths arrested during the April 2015 protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's third term in office, indicating its confidence in its consolidation of control. Although more than 50 people were killed in political violence in both January

AT LEAST 22 people were killed and 17 others were wounded in a double suicide attack conducted by female suicide bombers at a mosque on the outskirts of Maiduguri in Nigeria's Borno State on 16 March, Al-Jazeera reported. The first bomber detonated her explosives inside the mosque before the second

The launch of ballistic missiles by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on 17 March is "another clear violation" of UN Security Council resolutions, the EU said. "We call again on the DPRK to refrain from actions that increase tensions in the region and threaten

A CIVIL activist - identified as Abdul Basset Abu al-Dahab - was killed when an IED, emplaced under his vehicle by unidentified militants, detonated in the town of Derna in Libya's Cyrenaica region on 16 March, the Libya Herald reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

FOUR civilians were killed when their vehicle triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) emplaced by unidentified militants in the Hajiabad area of Ghaziabad district in Afghanistan's Konar province on 16 March, Pajhwok Afghan News reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the

MEDIA reports on 1 March stated that a United Kingdom-based firm Solar UK was targeted by a purported Islamic State-linked cyber attack on an unspecified date in late February, Newsweek reported. The firm's website homepage was replaced with Islamic State propaganda. The Islamic State released a

A HOMEOPATHIC medicine practitioner and Shia Muslim - identified as 45-year-old Abdul Razzaq - was hacked to death by militants near his shop in an unspecified area of Bangladesh's Jhenaidah district on 14 March, the Dhaka Tribune reported. The militants identifying themselves as the Islamic State

MBDA announced annual results for 2015 on 17 March, revealing orders worth EUR5.2 billion (USD3.9 billion). This record high was achieved mainly thanks to the Rafale and FREMM contracts signed by Egypt and Qatar. For the fourth year in a row export orders, at EUR3.6 billion in 2015, have far

The first pre-production batch of Mikoyan MiG-35 (Fulcrum-F) multipurpose fighter aircraft will start undergoing flight tests this year, Sergei Korotkov, the CEO of the MiG Aircraft-Manufacturing Corporation (RSK MiG), said on 17 March. The RSK MiG CEO did not specify how many MiG-35 fighter jets

Key Points Closer military and trade co-operation between Turkey and Ukraine aims to balance Russian military presence in the Black Sea and to mitigate the downside economic risks caused by their respective hostilities with Russia. A bilateral FTA is likely by the end of 2016. Increased Turkish

Ukraine's Motor Sich is offering a number of indigenously developed enhancements for the Ukrainian army's Mi-8 MSB-V medium multirole helicopters, which are aimed at addressing threats posed by anti-aircraft weapon systems employed by pro-Russian separatist militants in the contested eastern region

Suspected militants from Islamic State's Wilayat Tarabulus attacked Zliten prison in Libya's Tripolitania region on 17 March, helping an estimated 60 inmates to escape the facility. There were no reports of casualties as a result of the attack, which reportedly involved the firing of a

Officials from China's defence industry are claiming that their latest airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system, the Kong Jing (KJ)-500, is an "indigenous" Chinese product. Statements to that effect by Xiong Qunli, chairman of one of the country's largest and fastest-growing

IN A STATEMENT released on 14 March, a police spokesman alleged that two Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) militants killed in the Bin Qasim Town area of Karachi in Pakistan's Sindh province on 12 March had been planning to conduct a suicide attack targeting the Drigh Road Railway station

The first Russian combat aircraft began leaving Syria on 15 March a day after President Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of some Russian forces in Syria. Videos released by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and various media channels showed three Su-34 strike aircraft, eight Su-25s in