Two major collaborative defence research (R&T) projects, launched under the European Commission’s Preparatory Acton on Defence Research (PADR) and implemented by the European Defence Agency (EDA), came to a close end of October.

The results of both projects – OCEAN 2020 and VESTLIFE – will contr…

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has symbolically handed over the first of a total of six LEOPARD 2-based LEGUAN bridge laying systems to high-ranking representatives of the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) during a roll-out ceremony. Despite the pandemic, delivery of the systems will begin well …

At one of the landfills in Odesa, the State Kyiv Design Bureau Luch, which is part of Ukroboronprom, together with the military are conducting state tests of the Vilkha-M volley fire missile system.

MLRS is developed in close cooperation between the Concern’s enterprises and private defense indus…

The future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), the Navy’s 12th San Antonio class-amphibious transport dock ship, conducted Builder’s sea trials, October 26th.

Builder’s trials consist of a series of in-port and at-sea demonstrations that allow the Navy and the shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls Industries…

LIMA — It is planned to commission a production line of Kalashnikov AK-103 submachine guns in Venezuela by the end of 2022, Director General of Rosoboronexport (incorporated into Rostec state corporation) Alexander Mikheyev told TASS ahead of the SITDEF 2021 international arms show.

“It is plan…

The Thales Sea Fire radar was qualified by the French Armament General Directorate (Direction générale de l’armement – DGA); It is now ready for integration into the combat system of the new FDI Frigates (Defence and Intervention Frigate) developed by Naval Group.

The Thales Sea Fire fully digita…