The F-35s that guard and possibly defend the eastern flank of the NATO alliance are in demand, it turns out. The aircraft have already been alerted several times because of threatening situations in the direction of NATO treaty area. Bulgaria therefore wants the fighter planes to stay longer. In add…

China’s domestically developed Z-20 helicopter can transport a wide variety of vehicles including self-propelled mortars, howitzers, multiple rocket launchers and air defense missile platforms as well as land drones, giving aerial assault troops more tactical options and advantages, experts said on …

For 16 months now, American military personnel in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility have provided advise-and-assist support to forces in Somalia on an ad hoc basis — traveling into the country when needed and then leaving afterward. U.S. forces are helping Somali forces in the fight aga…

Elbit Systems was selected by Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus) to provide J-MUSIC Direct Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) including the Company’s Infra-Red-based Passive Airborne Warning Systems (PAWS IR), for Airbus A330-200 MRTT aircraft of additional European Air Force.

The Company’s DIRCM sy…

MOSCOW — The Project 877V ‘Paltus’ diesel-electric submarine B-871 Alrosa carries Kalibr-PL cruise missiles after its upgrade and will shortly re-enter service with the Black Sea Fleet’s 4th separate submarine brigade, a source in Sevastopol defense circles told TASS on Monday.

“The submarine A…

PACIFIC OCEAN –– The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class successfully launched sea-based missiles at a land-based target for the first time during a proof-of-concept exercise, May 12.

Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8) fired three AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire …