By : Chris Lavers The recent launch of Osprey E-Scan (Leonardo-Finmeccanica), the world’s first commercially available lightweight airborne surveillance phased array radar able to provide a persistent 360 degree field of view without moving parts, is set to revolutionize maritime…
Sourced : Defence One By Patrick Tucker As Russia seizes the stage, the lights are going out in Ukraine. On Sunday morning around midnight a major blackout struck the power substation in Novi Petrivtsi, a village near Kiev, disrupting power…
Sourced : USNI News By: Sam LaGrone and Megan Eckstein The U.S Navy released a new fleet plan that calls for 355 ships, outlining a massive increase in the size of its high-end large surface combatant and attack submarine fleets…
Sourced : The Washington Post By Thomas Gibbons-Neff An early morning artillery barrage started the latest bloody scrap in eastern Ukraine Sunday as Russian-backed militants and government troops clashed near the town of Svitlodarsk. A spokesman for the Ukrainian military,…
ByGeorge Allison The joint project will develop two full-scale and operational unmanned combat aircraft demonstrators by 2025. Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin and her French counterpart Laurent Collet-Billon signed an agreement to enable the next phase of the UCAS…
Sourced : Sputnik Russia will give an adequate response to the strengthening of NATO’s military infrastructure near its borders, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s European Cooperation Department told Sputnik Thursday. “The bolstering of NATO military infrastructure near Russia’s…
Home with just seven days to spare before Christmas Day are the sailors and Royal Marines on RFA Mounts Bay which has completed a marathon deployment in the Mediterranean. The amphibious support ship has been away from home for 349…
Jackal armoured cars kicked up the Bahraini sand as they swarmed ashore during the climax of a three-week amphibious exercise in the Gulf. Despite choppy surf, Royal Marines from Lima Company, 42 Commando, stormed the beaches alongside their Bahraini counterparts…
Sourced : Flight Global Concluding a circuitous, 14-year acquisition process, the Canadian government has selected the Airbus Defence & Space C295 turboprop to replace its air force’s fixed-wing search and rescue (FWSAR) fleet. The decision is a coup for Airbus,…
Sourced : Defence Blog The Egyptian Navy officially received its first Type 209/1400 submarine from the German submarine specialist ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS). The second HDW 209/1400mod class submarine (Yard No. 448) for the Navy of the Arab Republic of…