AFA 2015: USAF prepares to unveil T-X requirements
Key Points The USAF is preparing to release requirements for its Northrop T-38C Talon combat aircraft trainer replacement programme Although the service's FY 2016 budget request includes funding for...
View ArticleVenezuelan President claims foreign Tucanos would be used in military coup
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced that his state security forces thwarted a plot to overthrow his government on 12 February. According to Maduro, the plot comprised the use of one or two...
View ArticleTaiwan set to put new ship types into service
Key Points The RoCN is expected to put a new missile corvette and fast combat support ship into service next month Reports of the corvette, a catamaran design, having seaworthiness issues have been...
View ArticlePipavav posts Q3 loss as stake sale talks continue
India's Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering has posted further quarterly losses as speculation continues that the company is preparing to sell a major stake to Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M)....
View ArticleEuropean Union adds Russian ministers to sanctions list
The European Union (EU) has added Russian deputy defence minister Anatoli Antonov to the list of individuals and organisations under sanction over Russian actions in Ukraine. The new list, which was...
View ArticleChina's J-10 advocated as Argentine 'Typhoon beater'
Key Points A former PLAAF pilot has published an article on China Military Online advocating that Argentina buys the J-10B combat aircraft Argentine-Chinese talks on aerospace co-operation have...
View ArticleAFA 2015: Lockheed Martin unveils Legion IRST pod
Lockheed Martin unveiled a new long-range infrared search and track (IRST) pod for fourth-generation aircraft at the Air Force Association's annual Air Warfare Symposium on 12 February. The Legion Pod...
View ArticleImagery shows progress of Chinese land building across Spratlys
Key Points Satellite imagery shows the construction by China of a new facility on Hughes Reef in the Spratly Islands The site, which has expanded from a 380 sq m platform to an island 75,000 sq m...
View ArticleEgypt says it has bombed militants in Libya
Egypt said on 16 February that it had carried out airstrikes against Sunni Islamist militants in Libya in response to the release of a video showing Egyptian Coptic Christians being beheaded. "The...
View ArticleSouth China Sea issues blunt progress at ADSOM Plus
Territorial issues with China have left defence officials at the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials' Meeting Plus (ADSOM Plus), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 13-14 February, unable to agree on the...
View ArticleIsraeli paras make first drop from new Hercs
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out its first parachute flight using its recently acquired C-130J Hercules aircraft earlier in February: a move that underlines the continued relevance of...
View ArticleIsrael appoints new chief of staff
Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot officially took up his role as the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF's) 21st chief of staff on 16 February following ceremonies at the prime minister's official residence in...
View ArticleGhana to get five Super Tucanos, four Z-9s
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has five Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano turboprop aircraft and four Harbin Z-9 helicopters on order, the GAF website cited President John Mahama as saying during an event...
View ArticleCarter sworn in as US defence secretary
Ashton Carter was sworn in on 17 February as US secretary of defence, taking over the job likely for the remainder of President Barack Obama's final term in office. Carter, who had previously served as...
View ArticleArgentine MoD: stolen TOW missile needs launcher to be operational
A TOW 2 anti-tank missile reported stolen from an Argentine army unit in mid-January is not operational, according to Minister of Defence Agustin Rossi. Rossi was responding to criticism from Julio...
View ArticleAero India 2015: Foreign primes hiring top local talent to build...
Overseas defence companies supplying India materiel are increasingly employing ethnic Indians to head their in-country operations, believing that they are better able to connect with their customers....
View ArticleUSAF to return mothballed B-52 bomber to active service
The US Air Force (USAF) is returning to service a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber aircraft that had been mothballed in the 'boneyard' at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) in Arizona, the...
View ArticleKabul is losing control of Afghan countryside, EU report states
Afghanistan's government is losing control of its territory outside major population centres to the country's insurgent groups, says the EU's asylum agency. "The overall trend is one of decreasing...
View ArticleEgypt officially signs for 24 Rafales, FREMM frigate, and missiles
French defence minister Jean Yves Le Drian was in Cairo on 16 February to sign the contract to supply Egypt with 24 Rafale fighters, a FREMM multimission frigate, and a large batch of MBDA missiles. He...
View ArticleA-Darter programme nears completion
Denel Dynamics is close to completing the development of its A-Darter short-range air-to-air missile, the South African company has announced. The missile is in the final stage of air-launched guided...
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