Category: Defence Industry

Source: Defense News By: Andrew Chuter Britain’s defense secretary has revealed the government held discussions with Boeing over the purchase of a fleet of Wedgetail E-7 airborne warning and control aircraft. Discussions are also taking place with Australia about cooperating in the use of the aircraft, Gavin Williamson said. Williamson said the Ministry of Defence… Continue reading BRITAIN CONFIRMS TALKS WITH BOEING OVER POTENTIAL $2.6B E-7 WEDGETAIL AEW&C

Source: Navy Recognition https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2018/october-2018-navy-naval-defense-news/6534-usc-eyes-russian-navy-contract-for-project-23560-leader-class-destroyer.html The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) hopes to get a contract for the construction of a prospective Russian destroyer, USC CEO Alexey Rakhmanov told TASS. “We hope the Leader destroyer will remain with the USC as we have operating or upgraded capacities for that,” he said. He refused to say when the… Continue reading USC EYES RUSSIAN NAVY CONTRACT FOR PROJECT 23560 LEADER-CLASS DESTROYER

Source: Hurriyet Daily News The U.S. will deliver two more F-35 fighter jets to Turkey in 2019, the military head of the F-35 program said on Oct. 1. Speaking to reporters in Arlington, Virginia, Vice Admiral Mat Winter, the executive officer for the F-35 program, said he expected the warplanes to be delivered in March.… Continue reading TURKEY TO GET 2 MORE F-35A IN MARCH 2019

Source: Bulgarian Military By Boyko Nikolov According to the military expert, Lieutenant-General Yuri Netkachev, in the event of a conflict with NATO or the United States, one of the first Russian targets would be the possible new U.S. military base, Ford Trump, which could be neutralized with the help of the operational tactical Iskander missiles,… Continue reading RUSSIAN EXPERT: IN CASE OF A CONFLICT RUSSIA WOULD USE KH-47M2 KINZHAL MISSILE

Source: alert5 China may have deployed its YLC-8B UHF anti-stealth search radar on Pintan Island, Fujian Province. Satellite imagery from Google Earth suggests the radar was only installed this year. Developed by the No.14 Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETGC). The radar is claimed to be able to detect stealthy aircraft at… Continue reading CHINA MAY HAVE DEPLOYED UHF YLC-8B ANTI-STEALTH RADAR NEAR TAIWAN STRAIT

Source: The Drive By Tyler Rogoway and Ivan Voukadinov Russia’s recent adaptation of their Iskander tactical ballistic missile into an air-launched weapon made major headlines and was among the least technologically reaching of Putin’s new cadre of superweapons that are supposedly in development. The carrier aircraft for that weapon, named ‘Kinzhal,’ is MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor.… Continue reading RUSSIAN MIG-31 CARRYING HUGE MYSTERY MISSILE EMERGES NEAR MOSCOW

Source: Defense News By Pierre Tran France plans to boost the 2019 defense budget by €1.7 billion to €35.9 billion (by U.S. $2 billion to $42.2 billion), up 5 percent from the present year, the Armed Forces Ministry said. That spending increase excluded pensions and will represent 1.82 percent of gross domestic product, part of… Continue reading FRANCE TO BOLSTER DEFENSE SPENDING BY $2 BILLION

Source: NPR By Geoff Brumfiel It’s a terrifying weapon: a nuclear-powered cruise missile that can fly anywhere on the planet, possibly spewing radioactivity as it goes. In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his nation had successfully tested just such a machine. But new satellite imagery of a remote Russian test site suggests that… Continue reading RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR CRUISE MISSILE IS STRUGGLING TO TAKE OFF (Vid.)

Source: Defence World Russia’s most-advanced multipurpose fighter jet, Su-57 will reportedly be equipped with a hypersonic anti-aircraft missile with a range of over 300km, according to a report by Pravda.Ru, a Russian news site. Boris Obnosov, the general director of Tactical Missile Armament Corporation was quoted as saying by the Russian news daily that the… Continue reading SU-57 TO GET SUPERSONIC MISSILES WITH 300KM RANGE

Source: CNBC By Amanda Macias A new Russian nuclear-powered submarine fleet, capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles outfitted with hypersonic weapons, will be ready for war by 2024, according to a person with firsthand knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report. In order to finance eight of the submarines, Moscow cut funding for other military modernization… Continue reading RUSSIAN SUB FLEET CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING MISSILES WITH HYPERSONICS AND NUKES BY 2024