Last month, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force commissioned JS Kumano, the first of its new Mogami-class multi-role frigates. The warship was built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries facility in Tamano and is the first of a planned class of 22 ships that are destined to replace the fleet’s aging Abuk…

WARSAW — Poland has become a key arms supply route in the Ukraine war but is also becoming more vulnerable to attack from Russia, military analysts told The National.

With hundreds of armoured vehicles, sophisticated missiles and vital spare parts moving east, the potential for a subversive or …

A £32-million contract to provide cutting-edge autonomous mine-hunting systems to the Royal Navy has been awarded to Atlas Elektronik (UK) in Dorset.

Building on ambitions outlined in the Integrated Review, the three sets of Medium Autonomous Underwater Vessel (MAUV) systems will help to ensure R…

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force recently dispatched transport aircraft to deliver military goods to Serbia in a normal, prescheduled move, a spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after a record-breaking number of Chinese Y-20 cargo planes were spotted in Serbi…

PALMDALE, Calif. — Lockheed Martin Skunk Works demonstrated the expanded endurance capabilities of a specially configured Lockheed Martin Stalker VXE unmanned aerial system (UAS) through a world record endurance flight on Feb. 18, 2022, at the Santa Margarita Ranch in California.

The flight est…

“Lithuania has increased the defence budget to 2.52% of GDP this year and we stand ready to continue increasing the spending on national defence needs in support of the implementation of the new NATO deterrence and defence,” says Vice Minister Vilius Semeška. Today he met with Parliamentary State Se…