Defence Notes
Improbable Defence is transforming synthetic environments through Skyral (Sponsored)
Skyral enables government and industry to develop and adapt synthetic solutions more quickly, efficiently and reliably.
Naval Warfare
Singapore to upgrade Super Rapid 76mm guns with Strales system
A total of 28 active surface ships will receive the upgrades to their weaponry to help them combat the growing threat from UAVs.
Defence Notes
Leonardo CEO urges “speed as important as money” as joint ventures progress picks up
The company’s Q1 2025 results showed a 20% increase in new orders and a 15% increase in revenue across the business.
Naval Warfare
Will the US be able to make its shipbuilding industry “great again”?
The White House and Congress have been increasing efforts to support the national maritime industry.
Land Warfare
How Ukraine’s wartime innovators are redefining tactical communication
A Ukrainian company in a race against Russian jammers has been demonstrating how the country’s innovative start-ups have been beating the West at its own game.
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Defence Notes
Banding together to beat ballistic missiles (Sponsored)
The combined, proven capabilities of Raytheon Missiles & Defense radars safeguard security.
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Air Warfare
India signs deal with GE for LCA engines
18th August 2021
India will import GE engines for upcoming LCA Mk1A fighters, but still plans to domestically assemble them for the Mk2.
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Air Warfare
USAF selects Hughes’ satellite communications solutions
18th August 2021
Hughes to offer satellite networking solutions as part of a USAF contract to support the development of the ABMS.
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Defence Notes
HCB test points the way to JADC2
18th August 2021
Live test combines in-service gateway translations across existing data links with AI-enhanced networking.
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Air Warfare
STAT autonomy experimentation programme continues with latest contract
18th August 2021
USAF awards a new contract to develop and demonstrate autonomous technologies.
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Naval Warfare
IDEF 2021: Ulaq evolves and accelerates
18th August 2021
Ares Shipyard CEO says that the first Ulaq USV should be delivered by the end of 2021, and a foreign customer is interested in the anti-submarine warfare variant.
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Naval Warfare
Irish Navy awards OPV support contract to Babcock
18th August 2021
Babcock to support the Irish Navy’s Samuel Beckett Class, with work to commence later this year in Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Air Warfare
South Korea to receive extra engine for P-8A
18th August 2021
DoD announces FMS option for South Korea to receive one more engine to power Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
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Air Warfare
IDEF 2021: Çağatay goes on display
18th August 2021
Turkish UAV is the first in its class to be fully controllable via satellite, manufacturer UAVERA claims.
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Defence Notes
Afghanistan is a wake-up call for US defence establishment (Opinion)
18th August 2021
The world has been shocked by the US and allies departing Afghanistan with their tails between their legs. The abandonment is symptomatic of serious problems within the US defence establishment.
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Naval Warfare
South Korea commissions its first KSS-III submarine
18th August 2021
The rollout of South Korea's indigenous KSS-III submarines has begun, while LIG Nex1 is claiming early success in the CIWS-II programme.
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Naval Warfare
Refreshed UK shipbuilding strategy to come after government spending review
18th August 2021
UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace first announced the Refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy on 16 March at the Society of Maritime Industries Annual Conference, adding it would include a 30-year pipeline of all government vessels over 150t.
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Air Warfare
Russian prototype Il-112V aircraft crashes near Moscow
17th August 2021
The new Il-112V military transport aircraft has crashed in a forested area outside the Kubinka airfield, near Moscow, during a training flight.
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Defence Notes
USAF seeks more ICBM transporters
17th August 2021
Incumbent supplier HDT Global to supply more new transporter erectors for the Minuteman III.
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Naval Warfare
IDEF 2021: Turkey seeks new USVs
17th August 2021
RfP from Turkish defence procurement agency suggests naval requirements beyond existing unmanned surface platforms.
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Naval Warfare
USN awards Austal USA LCS sustainment execution contract
17th August 2021
USN awards second recent major service contract for the maintenance and modernisation of LCSs to Austal USA.
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Defence Notes
USN contracts out support for SBX-1
17th August 2021
Private vessel to aid refuelling and resupply of missile defence radar platform in the Pacific Ocean.
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Land Warfare
Scalable battlefield mobility (sponsored)
17th August 2021
For more than three decades, Pearson Engineering has provided Armed Forces with the mobility and counter-mobility equipment they need to succeed in their missions around the world.
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Defence Notes
Snapshot: Italian 2021-23 spending plan (video)
16th August 2021
The Italian Ministry of Defence released the multiyear 2021-23 spending plan on 5 August. The paper, released by the Italian MoD as the Documento Programmatico Pluriennale …
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Defence Notes
Sarcos and BAE team up to explore advanced perception and sensing capabilities
16th August 2021
New platform to address the issues around coordinating individual and multiple heterogeneous autonomous platforms like UASs and UGVs.
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