The Searchwater radar and the Cerberus mission system of Thales UK was selected by the Royal Navy in order to equip the AW101 Merlin airborne surveillance and control capability (ASaC) helicopters. The specially adapted helicopter will enter operational service in…
Two of the UK’s most technologically advanced fighting machines have paired up off the South West coast to practise working together in a spectacular display. Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender and Eurofighter Typhoons from the RAF’s II (AC)…
According to the Russian news agency TASS, the Russian Navy will start the construction of the new super aircraft carrier after 2025. The construction of the 330-meter long aircraft carrier called 23000Ε “Shtorm”, is one of the most important programmes…
The bomb that will be the mainstay of strike missions by Britain’s next-generation jet has been successfully dropped by the stealth fighter for the first time. RAF test pilot Squadron Leader Andy Edgell released two Paveway IV laser-guided bombs, 500lb…
The EU finally gave the green light for the operation EUnavfor Med that involves the ‘monitoring and crushing’ of the migrant smugglers in the central Mediterranean. According to the EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, the first phase of the…
Despite continuous airstrikes and attacks from Kurdish and Iraqi forces, ISIS seems to be holding its positions and advancing its fighting techniques. A typical example of the new methods ISIS is using against its opponents on the ground is the…
France has transferred advanced technology to Russian shipyards, according to the Russian News Agency, Ria Novosti. The report claims that this transfer took place before the Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock programme was stopped due of Western sanctions against Russia. The…
According to an interview that the Russian ambassador Viktor Tatarinstev gave to the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, if Stockholm decides to abandon its long lasting neutrality and join NATO, his government will make use of “military countermeasures”. The Russian ambassador…
Russia and China announced that they will conduct common sea drills off the coast of Russia’s Primorsky territory in late August 2015. The protocol for “Join Sea-2015”, as the exercise is called, was signed in Vladivostok on Friday 17 July.…
Nearly a tonne of heroin has been seized in a series of busts in the Indian Ocean – made possible by the use of the Royal Navy’s cutting edge technology. Six boats carrying narcotics were boarded off the east coast…