Yearly Archive: 2020

NEW DELHI — India plans to launch a major Rs 10,500 crore project to indigenously develop six airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft, which act as powerful “eyes in the sky” to look deep into enemy territory in modern-day warfare.

Defence sources on Wednesday said the project, whi…

STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. Air Force wants help defending military bases in Europe from hypothetical attacks by Chinese drones and Russian cruise missiles, and it’s willing to pay close to $1 billion to get it.

The service recently put out a $925 million contract notice that calls for bidders …

The German Bundeswehr has awarded Rheinmetall an extensive framework contract to supply tank ammunition. Under this agreement, 203,000 rounds of 120mm x 570 cal. service and practice ammunition – the kind fired from the main armament of Leopard tanks, for example – can be procured through to the end…

FMV today handed over the submarine HMS Uppland to the Swedish Armed Forces after a mid-life upgrade modification at Saab Kockums in Karlskrona.

The handover of equipment by HMS Uppland, just as for HMS Gotland in May, was carried out with two ceremonies due to the pandemic. Partly between the na…

In order to protect the national security and key defense industry technologies defined in the Federal Government’s strategy paper of Feb. 12, 2020 on strengthening the security and defense industry, the federal government, represented by the Federal Ministry of Defense, is planning to acquire a par…

WUHAN, China — The Royal Malaysian Navy’s fourth Littoral Mission Ship (LMS) has completed its construction phase and was safely lowered into the water at the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group Ltd Shipyard, Wuhan, China today to undergo a Port Acceptance Test Phase.

However, the worldwide ou…