US-based FLIR Systems has developed a tether kit that can dramatically increase the endurance of its SkyRanger R70 and R80D SkyRaider small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), according to company officials. The tether will provide...

Saudi Arabia has begun efforts to acquire a new range of 4×4 vehicles for use by multiple government organisations in a significant procurement programme. Speaking to Jane’s , SAMI CEO Andreas Schwer said that...

The Vehicle-Mounted Laser System (ARMOL) designed and developed by the Informatics and Information Security Research Centre (BİLGEM) of Turkey’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) has successfully completed acceptance tests, according to a press...

The Iranian Army unveiled what appeared to be a new guidance upgrade called the Labeik that converts existing artillery rockets into surface-to-surface missiles on 3 October. Several Labeik units were displayed in an event...

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) announced that the Night Intruder 600 VT vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (VTOL UAV) had successfully performed its maiden flight in South Jeolla province on 24 September. The...

Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russian state industrial conglomerate Rostec, has presented a sweeping plan for a broad spectrum of defence and high-technology infrastructure programmes that will be instituted in the coming years. The...

South Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to strengthen defence industrial links, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) in Seoul has said. Following bilateral defence talks in Abu Dhabi on 2...

The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”...

Air defence units of Russia’s 6 th Air and Air Defence Army headquartered in the Leningrad Oblast of the Western Military District have accepted S-400 air defence systems into service, according to a 2...

North Korea announced on 3 October that the missile it had test-launched the previous day from waters off its eastern coast was a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) called the Pukguksong-3 (also...

Rheinmetall AG, mother company of Rheinmetall Defence and Rheinmetall Automotive, has started recruiting in the Czech Republic. The activity is closely connected with the Czech Land Forces’ procurement of new infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs)...

The US Army has selected Lockheed Martin to build the next generation of AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air-defence radar systems over incumbent Raytheon. Under the terms of the deal, valued at USD281 million, Lockheed Martin will...

An updated variant of Russia’s Orlan-10 tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is to enter service with the country’s ground forces next year, according to media reports in Moscow. The Izvestia newspaper reported on 2...

A military parade held in Nicosia on 1 October to commemorate the 59th anniversary of Cyprus’ independence has demonstrated that the Cypriot National Guard’s rapid modernisation is ongoing with the acquisition of Serbian-made Nora-B52...

Our 3rd Annual Warfighter Systems Summit will serve as an educational ‘town-hall’ type forum to explain current and future Department of Defense efforts to maximize the lethality, protection, & situational awareness of US close...

The Army is seeking industry’s input on new high-altitude and low-Earth orbit sensing capabilities for both warning and targeting signals intelligence (SIGINT) applications. Officials from the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) released a...

Bell [TXT] has revealed the design its offering for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, pitching the Bell 360 Invictus aircraft as the “most affordable, most sustainable and lowest risk” solution outfitted...