The number of fighter jets Japan scrambled to intercept Chinese aircraft approaching its airspace rose sharply over the summer, reversing months of declines, according to Japan’s Ministry of Defense.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force launched fighters 187 times between July 1 and Sept. 30, the sec…

Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen has approved the Defence Forces’ procurement proposal and has authorised the Defence Forces Logistics Command to procure five additional armoured howitzers in 2022.

This is related to the procurement of 155 mm howitzers in 2017. The armoured howitzers were pro…

ISTANBUL — The Turkish military on Wednesday received the first Aksungur, a domestically produced medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the top defense body head said.

In a Twitter statement, the head of the Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), Ismail Demir sa…

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a not-to-exceed $206,832,036 undefinitized modification (P00012) to a cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee order (0097) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001914G0020).

This modific…

NATO defense ministers are meeting in Belgium to chart the course for the alliance as it modernizes and adapts to a world dominated by strategic competition, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a news conference in Brussels today.

The alliance must maintain the technological edge …

SAN DIEGO — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the transfer of two MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to the U.S. Marine Corps on October 15, 2021.

The two aircraft have been operated by the USMC since 2018 under a Company Owned/Company Operated (CO…