The Pentagon’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year includes an impressive increase in the procurement of interceptors, with the number of the US Army’s PAC-3 MSE rounds expanding by 683%, the US Navy’s Standard Missile by 365% and the MDA’s SM-3 IIA by more than 1,000%.
The US-led mine clearance mission in the Strait of Hormuz is a reminder of the long-overdue reckoning among Western navies. With ageing fleets and uncrewed systems still maturing, the gap between rhetoric and investment is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
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...
Raytheon has successfully tested a hot fire rocket motor for DARPA's Multi-Azimuth Defense Fast Intercept Round Engagement System (MAD-FIRES), the company announced on 6 May. …
The need for maritime operators to integrate ‘high end processing’ capabilities to their digital footprint is in huge demand, according to rugged computer and hardware …
New Zealand announced in Q1 2019 that Harris Defence Australia had been chosen to deliver a new tactical communications network for the New Zealand Army, …
On 2 May, the Pentagon released its annual report to the US Congress on China’s military. Entitled ‘Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic …
Taiwan’s Indigenous Defense Submarines (IDS) will be built in a new facility inside the grounds of the CSBC Corporation in Kaohsiung harbour in southern Taiwan, …
American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln passed through the Suez Canal on 9 May, Egyptian authorities said, as a US strike group heads towards the …
VT Halter Marine, the newly selected prime contractor for the US Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter (PSC), will soon host a five-day meeting with government’s …
The US Air Force has launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with a test re-entry vehicle from Vandenberg AFB, California, the …
Following its launch in 2017, Avon Protection will showcase its MCM100, a deep diving (100m CE rated), air and mixed gas, electronic control rebreather at …