LONDON — A senior executive and associate of an Airbus subsidiary paid £9.7mn in bribes to Saudi Arabian military officials to secure contracts for the UK government a court was told on Thursday.

The prosecution barrister Mark Heywood QC said the case concerned “deep corruption in overseas defe…

Last night, the first SM-2 missile was fired from a Danish warship. The Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense’s Materiel and Procurement Agency are integrating the SM-2 missiles for use in the Danish frigates of the Iver Huitfeldt class. This means that in the future the frigates will be able to …

On May 2, 2022, Director General of Armaments Martin Sonderegger and Project Manager Benjamin Mazenauer signed the vehicle renewal contract for engineer tanks. The contract was signed in Bern with Giuseppe Chillari, CEO of GDELS-Mowag, and covers 60 Piranha IV type vehicles, the delivery of which sh…

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas is awarded a $372,461,030 undefinitized firm-fixed-price modification (P00003) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008).

This modification adds scope to procure F-35 …

The war in Ukraine shows that unmanned aerial vehicles are part of modern warfare. Drones have various tasks from aerial surveillance to missile defense.

Drones meet the requirements of modern warfare — that’s the line from the US Department of Defense. And the Pentagon says it has just the drone…

PARIS — The Ministry of the Armed Forces is ordering 21 multifunction optronic pods manufactured by Thales. They already equip the Rafale FR3-R of the Air and Space Force, as well as the Rafale flotillas of the French Navy.

The Talios pod makes it possible to detect and identify ground targets …