The Scottish Affairs Committee is holding its first evidence session as part of its Defence in Scotland: Military Shipbuilding inquiry, hearing from the ADS Group, the Society of Maritime Industries and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.

Military shipbuilding in Scotland cu…

VICENZA, Italy — Equipment for U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercise in Africa left the port of Livorno on May 29 aboard the USNS Yuma. This equipment is a small part of the thousands of short tons now underway across the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans to several locations for Exercise African…

CANNES, France — The NILESAT 301 communications satellite built by Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) for the Egyptian operator NILESAT, was successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral launch pad, Florida (USA), on board of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Lockheed Martin Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a $32,979,835 modification (P00034) to contract W31P4Q-19-C-0077 to recapitalize the Multiple Launch Rocket System into the M270A2 configuration.

Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas; New Boston, Texas; and Camden, Arkansas, with…

Slovakia has so far supported Ukraine with approx. €154m in military aid. In their today’s conversation, Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď and his Ukrainian counterpart Olexii Reznikov discussed, among others, the next tranche of military assistance for Ukraine. During the phone call, Mr Reznikov highly…

MEDITERRANEAN SEA –– Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) ships conducted joint training exercises with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ships in the Mediterranean Sea on June 6.

Italian Navy ITS Margottini (SNMG2 flagship) and Turkish Navy TCG Salihreis met the two Japanese ships, …