With the coalition agreement, the current government has already structurally invested €3 billion in Defense, of which €1.9 billion in 2023. In response to the war in Ukraine, the cabinet added €2 billion on a structural basis last spring. Defense will use the extra investment to improve the operati…

PRETORIA — Private South African defence firm Paramount Aerospace Industries has received orders for nine of its Mwari aircraft – the first military aircraft to be designed and built in the country in nearly two decades, the company said on Wednesday.

The first of the propeller-driven reconnais…

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) firmly opposes a new Chinese agricultural investment near Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., and calls on the U.S. government to halt the project.

A Chinese agricultural conglomerate plans to develop a large-scale corn milling plant…

Sikorsky, Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $32,833,949 modification (P00004) to contract W58RGZ-22-C-0010 to exercise an option for two UH-60M aircraft for Foreign Military Sales.

Work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2027. Fiscal 20…

The Air Force is starting a new organization to field-test unmanned systems and artificial intelligence technologies in the Middle East, the service’s top general in the region said.

The small task force, dubbed Detachment 99, will look for cheaper ways to detect Iran’s aerial drones, Maj. Gen. A…

Sanctions and export restrictions imposed on Turkey’s ambitious defense industry have taken a toll on the development of sophisticated military hardware, which suffers from the lack of domestically produced components, in particular critical engines and transmission systems.

In a recent interview…