With a growing pipeline of naval modernisation programmes in South America, South Korean companies could be set to expand their presence in the region as recent contract wins highlight growing collaboration.
Australia’s Collins-class life of type extension has revived debate over whether Canberra needs a contingency plan as risks to every stage of the AUKUS pathway mount. With Japan newly open to exports, the case for a diesel-electric stopgap is gaining traction.
At DSEI 2025, James Gray, Managing Director and CEO of Raytheon UK (part of RTX), outlines the company’s century-long presence in the UK and its evolving role across defence, aerospace, cyber, and tra...
At SOF Week 2025 in Tampa, Florida, Stu Bradin, President and CEO of the Global SOF Foundation (GSOF), underscored the increasing operational demands placed on special operations forces (SOF) as globa...
Russia is planning to carry out the second test-firing of its Tsirkon hypersonic missile in April or May 2020 according to Defence Ministry sources. The …
Sukhoi Corporation plans to start deliveries this year of its Su-57 fifth-generation fighter for the Russian Aerospace Forces despite the December 2019 crash of a test aircraft …
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has been awarded a $1.5 billion fixed-price-incentive modification to a previous contract for the construction of an amphibious transport dock LPD …
The USN commissioned USS Delaware (SSN-791) on 4 April, welcoming it as the 18th Virginia-class attack submarine in the fleet. The vessel has been designed …
Denmark will provide an undisclosed number of EH101 helicopters as its main contribution to a multinational task force to bolster security in the Sahel, Shephard has learned. …
South Korea has finished installing a new indigenously developed surveillance system that can monitor ports against threats such as surface vessels, submarines, submersibles, divers or …
The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine has confirmed that the Armed Forces have carried out a successful test of the Neptune ground-based cruise …
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has progressed to the next phase of the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Operational Fires (OpFires) programme with its Vortex …
Raytheon has locked in $2.1 billion in orders for Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB interceptors, in a watershed development that marks the first time the …
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