The Guilin, a Type 052D guided missile destroyer newly commissioned into the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) South Sea Fleet, participated in a live-fire exercise at the start of 2022, with analysts saying on Thursday that the warship can rapidly achieve initial operational capability.

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A new generation of supersonic (faster than the speed of sound in level flight, also called Mach 1) passenger aircraft is now under development. Using “low-boom” technology developed through NASA research to minimize sound signatures on the ground, advanced engines, and alternative fuel concepts, th…

SEOUL — Senior defense officials from South Korea, the United States and Japan held phone talks Thursday to discuss North Korea’s recent missile launches and reaffirmed the importance of trilateral security cooperation, Seoul’s defense ministry said.

The phone talks came two days after North Ko…

At the end of 2021, the State Enterprise “Research and Design Center for Shipbuilding”, which is part of Ukroboronprom, signed a state contract with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for a set of repair and modernization works on the frigate “Hetman Sagaidachny”, the flagship of the Navy of the Arm…

Defense will be leasing a medium Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo) ship for the next 10 years. The military organization thus has strategic sea transport available on a permanent basis. The contract with the shipping company has been signed. The ship will be available by May at the latest.

This will enable…

MADRID — Indra has been awarded the R&D contract “MP C16: Use of a System based in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Techniques for the Predictive Maintenance of the avionic systems of the C.16 Eurofighter”, funded by the Spanish Directorate-General for Armament and Material, at the proposal of the Air…