Yearly Archive: 2020

Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) has made inquiries on Poland’s Warmate loitering munitions system, Up Media reports. The institute is initiating a project named Ch’i Sun to develop a small kamikaze drone to attack amphibious landing forces. The quotation request is for six drones with three daylight and three imaging infrared […]

Today the National Audit Office (NAO) reports that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) needs to focus on developing crucial supporting elements to make full use of Carrier Strike, as well as develop a better understanding of how much it will cost in the future.

Carrier Strike describes the ability to…

TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany — Airbus has been awarded a contract for the development, supply and integration of 115 Eurofighter E-SCAN Radars for the German and Spanish Eurofighter fleet. It marks the so far largest order for the world’s most modern electronically scanned array radar, Captor-E. The contr…

The Air Force does not have enough pilots and sensor operators to meet its staffing targets for its unmanned aircraft—also called remotely piloted aircraft (RPA). It also does not track its overall progress in accessing and retaining enough RPA personnel needed to implement its combat-to-dwell polic…

WASHINGTON — American Special Operations forces used a specially designed secret missile to kill the head of a Qaeda affiliate in Syria this month, dealing the terrorist group a serious blow with a weapon that combines medieval brutality with advanced technology.

American and Qaeda officials sa…