Rome: Germany’s Rheinmetall has loaned a Lynx tracked vehicle to the Italian army to test, as Italy prepares to sign a half-billion euro contract ($513 million) for a first batch of the vehicles by...
Haifa / Tel Aviv: Based on the experience gathered in Ukraine and Israel as to the threat pose by armed drones, European countries deploy counter measures. Israeli company Elbit Systems has been awarded a...
One of the fallouts of Assad’s ouster has been Russia relocating its military assets from Syria to Libya. The fall of the Assad regime could be interpreted as the West, led by the United...
Getafe, Spain. The Spanish government has signed a contract with Munich-based, Germany, NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA) for the acquisition of 25 Eurofighter aircraft. Known as the Halcon II programme, the order...
Paris: Germany will buy four more submarines from ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems to increase the number of boats to six, part of a joint purchase with Norway that may also see the Nordic country increase...
Tel Aviv: European countries are evaluating the system developed by Israeli company R2 Wireless used for the detection of drones.
The failure of Israeli radar based systems to detect armed drones launched by the Hezbollah...
The world is increasingly being engulfed by political turmoil, and externally motivated regime change leading to instability and the rise of fundamentalist forces. This has led to a power vacuum being exploited by Islamist...
Cologne: The Germany Navy has tested the BlueWhale underwater drone as a candidate platform for what the sea service envisions as a future fleet of unmanned vessels for combating enemy submarines.
Officials staged the two-week...
India has been looking for an impregnable air dome system since the China-Pakistan unholy alliance cemented over the years, and now, with the deteriorating situation in Bangladesh, a multi-front war scenario is emerging. The...
Berlin: The shallow waters of the Baltic Sea have become a secondary arena of confrontation in the larger standoff between the East and the West. Fears of hybrid warfare, coupled with key vulnerabilities on...
Haifa, Israel: Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd announced December 10 that it was awarded two contracts with an aggregate value of approximately $175 million for the supply of EW (Electronic Warfare) and DIRCM (Directed...
Paris: The European Union’s new defence commissioner laid out his priorities for the 27-nation bloc in coming years, including keeping military aid flowing to Ukraine and arming up to prepare for possible Russian aggression...
London: BAE Systems has won a new $2.5 billion contract to build more CV90 combat vehicles for Denmark and Sweden, the company announced.
Denmark has ordered 115 new CV9035 MkIIICs, and Sweden is acquiring 50...