South Korea’s military said Wednesday it had retrieved and analyzed debris from a missile the North fired across the two countries’ de facto maritime border during a recent blitz of launches. North Korea fired more than 20 missiles on November 2, including one short-range ballistic missile that crossed the Northern Limit Line, prompting a rare […]
EDGE Group subsidiary Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) has unveiled the largest military boat it has produced to date – a 51-meter (167-foot) offshore patrol vessel. Called the 510 OPV, the ship was introduced at the Indo Defence Expo & Forum 2022 in Jakarta. The vessel has a modular deck that can be configured for […]
Taiwan is developing hangars that can withstand China’s powerful ballistic missiles, Taipei Times reported, citing an air force official. The Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology has already reviewed the design of 36 planned hangars to be built at an air base in Taichung. They will be designed to survive potential Dongfeng missile strikes by […]
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday traded accusations of provoking a shootout along their troubled border, just hours before the arch-foes were to hold US-mediated peace talks. The incident came ahead of a meeting in Washington of Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov for a fresh round of peace talks hosted by […]
RIYADH: A Royal Saudi Air Force F-15S fighter jet crashed at the King Abdulaziz Air Base training grounds due to a technical malfunction during a routine drill on Sunday night, the Saudi Press Agency reported early Monday, citing a ministry of defense statement. Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, spokesmen of the ministry, said that the crew, […]
The Russian military has struck a Ukrainian Gyruza-M-class patrol boat using its sophisticated Lancet loitering munition. Russian news agency RIA Novosti shared a video on Telegram of what appears to be a direct hit on one of the Ukrainian Navy’s few remaining patrol boats. Although the location of the attack was not indicated in the footage, […]
Iran admitted for the first time on Saturday that it has sent drones to Russia, but insisted they were supplied to its ally before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We supplied Russia with a limited number of drones months before the war in Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, quoted by the official news agency IRNA. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russia of […]
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $581.2-million contract to supply the US Navy with more UGM-133A Trident II submarine-launched nuclear ballistic missiles. According to the US Department of Defense, the contract also benefits a foreign military sale to the UK. The agreement calls for the American firm to integrate Trident II missiles into the next-generation […]
Myanmar’s military has begun taking delivery of a batch of Russian-made combat jets, a monitoring group said Friday, the latest hardware shipped from Moscow as rights campaigners accuse the junta of hitting civilians with air strikes. In 2018 under the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s military purchased six Sukhoi Su-30s from Russia, […]
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has clinched a 438-billion-won ($308 million) deal to develop amphibious attack helicopters for the Republic of Korea Marine Corps, the company announced. KAI will develop three prototypes in 46 months under the contract, signed with South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration. The attack aircraft must be capable of providing cover for […]