BAE Systems Australia and European missile group MBDA announced a collaboration agreement that will support Australia as it establishes its sovereign Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) enterprise.
In March 2021, the Albanese government launched a programme to cultivate an indigenous defence industrial base to fulfil three objectives: to create a sustainable ecosystem for its GWEO; improve its availability and reliability of GWEO; and increase the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) inventory of GWEO.
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The US Army V Corps has announced the launch of the European High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Initiative (EHI).
This multi-faceted effort is being developed in close collaboration with the Nato allied nations and several other US stakeholders including US Army Europe and Africa, US Army Field Artillery School, and Programme Executive Office-Missiles and Space.
As the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approached, Senate Republican whip, John Thune, warned, “every time we’ve had to do additional funding [for Ukraine], it’s gotten harder. I mean there is a constituency out there that doesn’t see the value of it.” The United States has been counted on to help fund Ukraine’s […]
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As the Irish say, things are “banjaxed”. In the last year, the Emerald Isle has shown that it is incapable of tracking and deterring Russian naval activity over key transatlantic fiber optic cables near its southwest coast, is hemorrhaging experienced Irish Defence Forces officers and non-commissioned officers over pay, conditions, and opportunities, just as reports […]
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The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a major Chinese aircraft manufacturer, has reported the successful first flight of their fourth AG600M prototype firefighting aircraft in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, south China.
On February 25, the aircraft conducted several previously planned flight tests during the 17-minute flight. The plane showed excellent performance with its control system and all other systems working perfectly, AVIC said.
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
February 2023 marks one full year of epic struggle on Ukraine’s part to preserve its very existence. Rather than succumbing to the invaders beleaguering the country from the North, South and East, it has managed take the initiative in a conflict that was heavily stacked against it. Yet one year also marks the point where the war is beginning to surpass perhaps any conflict since WWII in terms of ferocity and, necessarily, losses.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of carrying out an act of terrorism in a small Russian community just north of the Ukrainian border.
Ukrainian forces “today carried out another act of terror, committed another crime, infiltrated the border area and opened fire on civilians,” Putin said, according to the official Russian TASS news agency. “They saw it was a civilian car, saw that civilians and children were inside…they opened fire on them.
The mysterious ‘available on Alibaba’ twin-tail-boom drone that gained notoriety last summer for being tied to long-range ‘kamikaze’ strikes likely carried out by Ukrainian forces has emerged once again. This time, however, instead of blurry faraway video footage and pictures of it high over territory Ukraine does not control, including over Russia itself, or crashed parts of it, new photos show the drone fully intact on the ground. This offers us the best look yet at the shadowy improvised long-range precision strike weapon.
Israeli defense company Elbit Systems announced on Thursday the award of two contracts worth $252 million for the supply of artillery systems to an unnamed European NATO member country.
Having offered Ukraine its 19 French-made Caesar howitzers, Denmark has been in talks with Elbit for new mobile artillery to cover a “critical gap” for over a month prior to the declaration.
Danish defense officials have claimed that talks are progressing towards the “prompt delivery of ATMOS artillery pieces and PULS rocket launcher systems.
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Curious flight tracking data available through the popular website ADS-B Exchange for a brief period this evening suggested that there could have numerous unidentified and stationary objects at altitudes between 50,000 and 60,000 feet in the broader area around Washington, D.C. These objects could have been part of some kind of test or the result of an error. Whatever happened was eye-catching in the wake of the string of high-altitude incidents inside U.S. and Canadian airspace last month, many details of which remain murky.