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The South Korean and Polish defence companies Hanwha and PGZ bolster their ties in a Letter of Intent to export K9 and Krab components.
It’s the showpiece match in the RAF football
Despite Gazprom’s 2023 loss, the largest reported for more than two decades, European countries are still receiving Russian gas supplies.
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The Defense Department wants Congress to approve an expansion of special operations authorities to train and equip U.S.
Jonathan Lehrfeld, Navy Times
A Navy cargo ship that ran aground in Bahrain last year experienced the mishap while a top officer briefly stepped away for dinner, a summary of a service…
John Hill, Naval Tech.
The portable, shore-based containerised missile launcher increases the Navy’s flexibility to support maritime security along sea lines of communication.
L.C. Baldor, AP
FORT LIBERTY, N.C.
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Map with provinces highlighted (green) in which guerrilla activity by the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan and allies was reported as of January 2022.Image by Applodion
In April, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) escalated its strategic operations against the Taliban, capitalizing on the groundwork laid during their spring offensive. As the combat season unfolded, the NRF significantly expanded its operational reach and improved its tactical expertise, focusing on undermining Taliban control.
Germany bought three HIMARS from the US for Ukraine to replace three systems lost earlier in the war, and in the face of a new offensive.
An artist’s impression of the ECW ‘loyal wingman’ concept for the Luftwaffe being remotely controlled by a Eurofighter EK electronic combat aircraft. (Airbus)
Airbus is to develop a manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) capability to enable the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft to remotely control ‘loyal wingmen’ under the System and Teaming Advanced Research (STAR) programme.
Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS
Iver Huitfeldt
(pictured in October 2021) was deployed to the Red Sea from February–April 2024.
(Michael Nitz)
Danish Defence Command has published a report on the technical issues experienced by Royal Danish Navy (RDN) frigate HDMS
Iver Huitfeldt
(F 361) during an engagement on 9 March 2024 in the Red Sea as part of the US-led multinational task force Operation ‘Prosperity Guardian’.
The EDF is procuring and sustaining some of its L3Harris communications equipment. The force currently operates the Falcon III RF-7800M-MP multiband networking manpack radio (pictured). (L3Harris Technologies)
L3Harris Technologies has been contracted by the Estonian Centre for Defence Investments (ECDI) to supply its radios to the Estonian and Moldovan defence forces.
The EUR30 million (USD32.
KNDS France proposed its 6×6 CAESAR 155 mm/52 calibre SPH – a mock-up of which is displayed above from the DSA 2024 exhibition – to the Malaysian Army. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)
The Malaysian Army has expressed its willingness to initiate the 6×6 155 mm/52 calibre self-propelled howitzers (SPHs) procurement programme – which is facing delays since it was announced in 2010 – in 2024 at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhibition held at Kuala Lumpur from 6 to 9 May.
A FOST Airbus AS365N2 Dauphin operated by British International Helicopters under the FHSU requirement. The MoD has put the tender out to requirement, hoping to secure a new service starting from 1 April 2026. (Janes/Patrick Allen)
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reopened its requirement for a Fleet Helicopter Support Unit (FHSU) provider to deliver a crewed rotary-wing service to the Royal Navy (RN), having seemingly failed to do so on previous occasions.
The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said it has tested the KAI KF-21’s ability to launch the MBDA Meteor air-to-air missile and guide the weapon to target using the aircraft’s active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. (Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Indonesian government has sought a reduction of its payment share for the joint development of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21 fighter programme, from KRW1.6 trillion to KRW600 billion (USD1.
The NMS 4×4, displayed at the DSA 2024 exhibition, features a V-shaped monocoque body. The vehicle has the capacity to carry 11 personnel. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)
Turkish company Nurol Makina showcased its NMS 4×4 armoured vehicle at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur from 6 to 9 May.
A Nurol Makina spokesperson told Janes at the show that the company has partnered with Malaysian firm Nadicorp Holdings to offer the NMS 4×4 to the Malaysian Army.
DEFTECH’s Aludra EE UAV – pictured above displayed at the DSA 2024 exhibition – has a length of 3.28 m, a width of 4.86 m, and a maximum take-off weight of 120 kg. (Janes/Kapil Kajal)
Malaysia’s DRB-HICOM Defence Technologies (DEFTECH) showcased its tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – also known as Aludra EE – at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2024 exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur from 6 to 9 May.
A company representative from DEFTECH told
Janes
at the exhibition that the development of the UAV is completed.
EPAIL has delivered 20 light tactical armoured vehicles to the Nigerian military. (Ministry of Defence Nigeria)
The Nigerian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 9 May that 20 locally produced armoured personnel carriers (APCs) were handed over in a ceremony attended by Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Gwabin Musa at Mogadishu Barracks in Abuja the previous day.
It did not name the APCs or their manufacturer, saying only that the vehicles are an improved version with better weapons and communications systems.
The MoD is looking for a new partner to support the SSPAR at RAF Fylingdales, which has been operational since the early 1990s. (Crown copyright)
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is looking for a new partner to support the operation and maintenance of the Solid-State Phased-Array Radar (SSPAR) at Royal Air Force (RAF) Fylingdales.
RAF Fylingdales provides a continuous ballistic missile early warning service to the UK and the US. It also functions as a space surveillance and tracking (SST) system, capable of detecting objects the size of a can 3,000 miles into space.
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In February 2024, Turkey successfully completed the maiden test flight of its prototype Kaan fighter. The plane’s name is taken from an ancient Central Asian royal title, and Turkish media declared that its performance made “the legacy of our ancestors proud.” This then naturally raises the question: is the Kaan really a king of kings or just a pretender to the throne? Turkey now claims membership of a small, technologically advanced club of countries that have flown a fifth-generation aircraft of their own design: the United States, Russia and China.
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(Screenshot via @Kane on X).
Pilot and aviator callsigns are the stuff of legend. In fiction, they can be iconic and instantly cool — think “Iceman” and “Maverick,” you know those are great — while in reality there isn’t a guarantee. Sometimes they can be nicknames given to new pilots by more experienced ones, often in jest. Whatever the case, one U.S. Air Force pilot with the callsign “Mullet” got a lot of attention online this week. It wasn’t for any of his actions, it’s because of what he took with him in the skies over the Middle East.
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CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 27: Roger Corman present The Grand Prix Award during the closing ceremony during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 27, 2023 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images).
Long-time director and producer Roger Corman died on Saturday, May 11 at the age of 98. The director of films such as “The Little Shop of Horrors” and “The House of Usher,” who was seen as one of the greatest B-movie makers in all of Hollywood, was also a Navy veteran.
Norway’s coastline is the second longest
D-Day on 6 June 1944 was the biggest amphibious
The gradual reduction is ahead of the type’s withdrawal from service in 2025, although more than 300 vehicles look set to be retained.
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(Photo courtesy Pacific Historic Parks).
Almost eight decades after a plane crash took their lives, five U.S. Army soldiers are finally being awarded the Purple Heart.
The five soldiers were among 31 killed 79 years ago when their plane crashed while trying to land in Okinawa. However, for decades only two of the victims of the crash ever received the Purple Heart. The U.S. Army is now working to correct that. On Friday, May 10, these five, all Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii, were posthumously given the award in a ceremony at Pearl Harbor.
The five — Staff Sgt.
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(photo by Airman 1st Class Alexander
Vasquez/U.S. Air Force).
One of the fighter squadrons that helped shoot down dozens of Iranian missiles last month has some fresh paint honoring those kills.
F-15E Strike Eagles and their pilots with the Air Force’s 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron returned back to base at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom this week. Amid reunions with family and friends, photos taken on the return show the F-15E’s with new kill markings and paint on the nose of the fuselage.
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MCT
When then-Sgt.
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The expeditionary sea base USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams (ESB-4) grounded off the western coast of Africa on Thursday, U.S.
Erik Davis, Modern War Institute
I cannot say I truly understood my time in the Army before I met my wife, Katy.
Karen McKay, RealClearDefense
Editor’s Note: This is a fictional story by a retired U.S.
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author’s cut of an essay entitled “Odysseus Lost” that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024.
The final match in the 2024 Inter Service champ
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The next chapter in a bitter RAF v Army rivalry
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Pararescue specialist and Combat Rescue officers from the 920th Rescue Wing buzz the cruise ship Venezia prior to hoisting onto its deck to retrieve a sick child and his mother for an emergency transportation to shore. Air Force photo.
Vacationing passengers aboard a cruise ship found got to see a mid-ocean airshow last week when a small fleet of Air Force rescue aircraft arrived overheard, 350 miles from shore, to transport a sick boy and his mother back to dry land.
