The recent announcement that Leonardo has placed the latest in a series of contracts with UK-based aviation services company 2Excel to commence the next stage of the Tempest flight test aircraft (FTA) programme is the latest milestone in the Tempest programme. Under the contract, a Boeing 757 commer…

The US Defense Department on Wednesday released its annual report on China’s military development, which again hyped the “China threat theory,” and discussed China’s nuclear arsenal, claiming that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is expanding its nuclear force much faster than the US had p…

In the margins of the NATO Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD), which was concluded on the 27th of October, Vice Adm. Aristeidis Alexopoulos the Greek defense ministry’s General Director for Defense Investments and Armaments, signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the possible transfer of…

The French armed forces are an essential player in the national defence and security strategy.

I want them to be permanently ready to face a major conflict, acting in all environments and fields of confrontation to “win the war before the war” from the stage of competition, a normal state of the …

The U.S. exit from Afghanistan is hurting the bottom lines of U.S. military contractors. “The pullout in Afghanistan, there’s about a $75 million impact to full year revenue, not huge but meaningful,” Raytheon ($20.2 billion in defense contracts in 2020, #4 on the list of the Pentagon’s biggest cont…

Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Peeni Henare today announced that New Zealand will deploy a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion (P-3) aircraft in support of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions on North Korea.

The resolutions, adopted unanimously by the…