Yearly Archive: 2022

Australia is set to acquire an additional 13 Sikorsky MH-60R Romeo multimission maritime helicopters that will bring the Royal Australian Navy’s inventory up to 36 units. The procurement is expected to cost AUD2.5 billion ($1.7 billion) and will enable the RAN to retire its small fleet of six MRH90 …

(…/…) On the training side — I’m sorry, the — before I get to training, let me just talk about sort of where we are on the major pieces heading over there. So, I can report that almost all the 90 howitzers are in Ukraine, more than 85 of them.

And as for the rounds, again, if you add the 144 to…

In his Victory Day speech on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin “calmly but firmly” stated that Russia had to take pre-emptive actions in its special operation in Ukraine as NATO had created an “absolutely unacceptable threat” at Russia’s borders. According to Chinese analysts, the speech was …

Australia is involved in complex negotiations to ensure that its plan to acquire eight nuclear-powered submarines doesn’t weaken the international non-proliferation regime.

The chief of the Royal Australian Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine taskforce, Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead, tells The Strategi…

The Lufthansa Group is buying more state-of-the-art long-haul aircraft. The Executive Board has decided to purchase:
— seven Boeing 787-9 long-haul passenger aircraft
— three Boeing 777F freighter aircraft (current technology)
— seven Boeing 777-8F freighter aircraft (new technology)

In add…

The IMOD’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) and Elbit Systems unveiled the new program: “Edge of Tomorrow”, the combat soldiers of the future.

“The Edge of Tomorrow” is a project focused on the development of cutting-edge technologies to improve a range of mission capabilit…