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Air Warfare

Paris Air Show 2025: Poland orders Apache targeting systems and will establish local support facility

In 2024, Poland agreed to purchase 96 Boeing AH-64E Apache combat helicopters in a deal worth as much as US$12 billion. The deal included 97 AN/ASQ-170 modernised target acquisition and designation sight/AN/AAR-11 modernised pilot night vision sensors (M-TADS/PNVS).

Air Warfare

Paris Air Show 2025: Airbus and France sign framework agreement for VSR-700

The framework agreement is for the future acquisition of the system under the French Navy’s SDAM programme. The agreement also paves the way for cooperation with other nations via government-to-government agreements.

Air Warfare

Paris Air Show 2025: Milkor and Hanwha partner to integrate the latter’s SAR payload into the Milkor 380

Hanwha Systems and Milkor announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Paris Air Show to integrate the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system into the Milkor 380 drone.

Air Warfare

Paris Air Show 2025: A400M production moved forward as development plans outlined

It is more than a decade since the Airbus A400M tactical lift aircraft entered service. More than 130 aircraft are in service around the world with nine countries, while another order has been made by Indonesia. The company is now looking to lower operational costs and increase the number of potential missions.

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Land Warfare

Kazakhstan to build new 8x8s based on Singapore’s Terrex

11th December 2024

Singapore’s ST Engineering will help Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering set up in-country production capability and provide technical support.
Land Warfare

UK establishes mortar barrel production capability

11th December 2024

Precision machining company brings production of 60mm, 81mm and 120mm smooth bore mortar barrels back to the UK.
Air Warfare

Slovakia eyes C-390 Millennium aircraft purchase in early 2025

11th December 2024

The Slovak Ministry of Defence (MoD) also signed a Letter of Intent with the Brazilian MoD for deeper industrial collaboration between the two nations.
Naval Warfare

Steel cutting begins on Malaysian corvettes

11th December 2024

STM has begun building three corvettes for the Royal Malaysian Navy which are expected to be completed by mid-2028 at a programme cost of US$544 million.
Air Warfare

Kazakhstan welcomes its first A400M

11th December 2024

The A400M was handed over at a ceremony in Almaty, after a flight from Airbus’ A400M Final Assembly Line in Seville, Spain.
Land Warfare

Success for ballistic missile interceptor test firing from Guam

11th December 2024

The US is increasing its focus on the Indo-Pacific region with multinational partnerships and increased capability such as boosting the defence of Guam.
Training

How terrain management capabilities can improve military training

11th December 2024

This type of tool provides more realistic training easing the incorporation of new scenarios that accurately represent the threats of the battlefield.
Land Warfare

Land Warfare Review 2024: Conflict in Europe and the Middle East dominate attention and power spending

11th December 2024

Political turbulence in the US and across the Atlantic could have huge implications for Ukraine in the coming months. In 2024, however, the land warfare domain saw spending increase in eastern and central Europe, the continent continue its preference for the CV90 and a global rise in the demand for missiles.
Land Warfare

Australia looks to Precision Strike Missile and Naval Strike Missile for new long-range fires

11th December 2024

Australia has committed a A$1 billion over the next four years to accelerate investments in the targeting enterprise, long-range fires, theatre logistics, fuel resilience and robotic and autonomous systems as part of its 2024 National Defence Strategy.
Air Warfare

Modified 757 aircraft planned to inform GCAP sensors and communications takes flight

11th December 2024

The Boeing 757, dubbed Excalibur, was equipped with new side and belly pods and assessed for stability during flight. The aircraft will now undergo further engineering work at QinetiQ’s Boscombe Down facility in Wiltshire, England.
Air Warfare

Elbit to deliver EW self-protection suites for a European country’s C-390 and H225M aircraft

10th December 2024

The system to be installed includes a digital radar warning receiver, infra-red missile warning system, laser warning system, countermeasure dispenser system and DIRCM (Directed Infrared Countermeasure) system.
Air Warfare

German Armed Forces’ H145s get L3Harris sensor system upgrade

10th December 2024

L3Harris Technologies has provided its WESCAM MX-15D electro-optical/infrared sensor systems to the German Armed Forces’ new H145 helicopters.
Naval Warfare

USS Zumwalt undocked after supersonic weapons upgrade

10th December 2024

The vessel will be the first in the US fleet to carry the Conventional Prompt Strike capability.
Air Warfare

UK and Qatar pledge to expand collaboration on Typhoon and Hawk aircraft

10th December 2024

The two countries signed collaboration agreements across the Hawk and Typhoon aircraft squadrons, but what could this mean for potential Typhoon orders?
Digital Battlespace

Lockheed Martin completes tactical satellite demonstration and prepares for launch

10th December 2024

The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
Air Warfare

Air Warfare Review 2024: Budget cuts and delays fail to dampen modernisation efforts in 2024

10th December 2024

From major platform upgrades, high-value contract wins and programme delays, Shephard reported on a mixed year for air warfare in 2024, as geopolitical tensions rose across Europe and the Middle East.
Naval Warfare

Italian Navy finally takes delivery of Trieste

10th December 2024

The largest ship built in Italy in the post-war period has been delivered, and is expected to significantly boost Italy’s Amphibious Task Group.
Training

I/ITSEC 2024: Australian Army approaches second phase of countermining training

9th December 2024

The Engineering Corps has been conducting individual instruction using FLAIM Systems’ Sweeper and should start collective deployments in 2025.
Land Warfare

Saab to supply Giraffe radars to US Air Force in Europe

9th December 2024

Saab began development of the radar in 2012. Production started in 2014 and Sweden ordered systems in 2020 for SEK2.1 billion as part of a five-year deal.