Monthly Archive: Ottobre 2021

Tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang have grown in recent months. South Korea’s failed test of its first-ever homegrown rocket has prompted worries of a new arms race.

Shortly after 5 p.m. local time (0800 UTC) on Thursday, South Korea launched its first domestically produced rocket from the Naro…

Forsvarsmateriell and Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace today sign a contract for the delivery of missiles to Norwegian F-35s. “With this contract, we ensure a crucial capacity for our new fighter jets,” says Minister of Defense Odd Roger Enoksen.

The contract has a value of four billion kroner and i…

Rheinmetall has chalked up another success in the artillery domain. DMO, the Dutch procurement agency, has just placed an order with Rheinmetall for illumination and smoke/obscurant shells from Rheinmetall’s ammunition family.

The NATO nation will take delivery of the projectiles in mid-2023. Wo…

Specialist teams from two RAF units have been developing the capability of the Atlas transport aircraft to refuel fast jets by conducting a first-time trial of a new fuelling system.

Personnel from the Fuels Support Team, part of No 1 Expeditionary Logistics Squadron based at RAF Wittering, deplo…

Sailors are today breathing life into the first of the UK’s next-generation warships.

Half a dozen sailors have joined HMS Glasgow – under construction in her namesake city – to begin turning a lifeless hull into the world’s most advanced submarine hunter.

The ship is the first of eight Type 2…

SEOUL — The Navy received an upgraded destroyer on Friday, after more than a year of refurbishment aimed at bolstering anti-submarine and other capabilities, the state arms procurement agency said.

The 3,200-ton Gwanggaeto the Great destroyer was handed over to the Navy, the Defense Acquisition…