A Royal Navy submarine has visited Australia as Britain pitches to gazump the US and build Canberra a new underwater fleet to counter China in the Pacific.

HMS Astute docked in Perth only weeks after Britain and America signed a security pact with Australia that would see the Asian-Pacific countr…

Belgium’s Council of Ministers on Friday gave its approval to the purchase of nine French Caesar 155mm long-range artillery systems, further strengthening the Land Component’s partnership with the French army.

The amount of the purchase was not specified, but the Strategic Vision document approve…

MOSCOW — Rostec will present a new Russian fifth-generation Checkmate aircraft at the Dubai Airshow-2021 international air show, which will be held from November 14 to 18 in the UAE. This was announced by a source in the aircraft industry.

“Checkmate has attracted great interest abroad, and the…

DUBLIN — The boss of Ireland’s Ryanair on Monday ramped up a war of words with Boeing, calling the U.S. planemaker “delusionary” for imposing what he termed a double-digit percentage price hike for 737 MAX 10 jets in talks this year.

Chief Executive Michael O’Leary also said Boeing needed to “g…

Wishful thinking has reigned in the future frigate program. The result is that the predicted date for initial operational capability is now 2034—thirteen years away. Let’s review the history of the program and its schedule.

In August 2015, concerned about the prospects of a shipbuilding ‘valley o…

ROME — A few days ago, at the Al Qalail range in Qatar, the “NASR 2021” exercise was carried out by the Italian Army’s Artillery Command jointly with the Qatar Emiri Land Forces (QELF). The purpose of the exercise was to verify the level of preparation reached by the Artillery Command through the …