Yearly Archive: 2020

The planned service life of Hornets, Finland’s current fighters, will end by 2030. The HX Program was set up to replace the current fleet with new fighters as the fighters play a key role in Finland’s defence capability. Squadron 2020 is the Navy’s project that aims at replacing the seven vessels th…

BAE Systems has successfully completed planned systems maintenance and repair on HMCS Toronto, a Royal Canadian Navy ship, allowing the vessel to return to sea. The work was undertaken at the home of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

BAE Systems readied the Halifax-class frigate for he…

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Swedish think tank, released a report on December 6 reading that the sales of arms and military services of the global sector’s 25 largest companies for which data are available totaled US$361 billion last year, an 8.5 percent increase …

Rolls-Royce has delivered an upgraded thermal management and power system from its ColdFire Solutions technology line to power directed energy field testing in 2021.

The ColdFire Solutions system was delivered to Lockheed Martin for integration and testing. It is a standalone system, minimizing p…

Heiko Meißner looks satisfied through the thick clouds of smoke at the riddled target. An olive-colored gun turret can be guessed through the fog as the cause. “So far, the pipes have lasted longer than expected,” states the 50-year-old from Emsland.

Meißner is the test manager at the Wehrtechni…

South Korea will develop an autonomous underwater mine detector with its indigenous technologies to boost the military’s capabilities in mine countermeasure operations, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday.

The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said it has signed a 12 billion-won (…