Yearly Archive: 2022

SEOUL — North Korea is likely to conduct a nuclear test between May and September this year, a government researcher said Thursday, amid signs of the reclusive country working to restore its purportedly demolished Punggye-ri testing site.

Lee Sang-min, a researcher at the Korea Institute for De…

FMV has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom, which makes it possible for them to use Sweden’s existing agreement with Saab for the manufacture of the anti-tank missile. The missile, which in Sweden is called Robot 57, is used to fight modern combat vehicles and it is one of the UK’s military…

The Navy has awarded $72.5 million to Boeing to deliver a prototype of a very large, unmanned submarine for testing purposes, ahead of five of the same model already in production.

Boeing has been under contract to build the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, or XLUUVs, since it won the…

TEHRAN — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Wednesday his government’s desire for closer cooperation with China in remarks made during a visit by the Chinese defense minister, state media reported.

According to the report, Raisi told China’s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe that T…

TRIESTE, Italy — The delivery of the corvette “Damsah”, the second of the Al Zubarah-class) of four vessels ordered to Fincantieri by the Qatari Ministry of Defence within the national naval acquisition program, took place today at the Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard.

The ceremony, held in a rest…

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Europe’s six main defence-aerospace nations – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom – declared the urgent goals of avoiding duplication in core defence projects, along with the need for the associated industrial consolidation. Today, those sa…