The government bill contains proposals on an overall objective for total defence, new objectives for military and civil defence, the direction of the force structure of the Swedish Armed Forces, changes to the Swedish Armed Forces peacetime organisation, as well as legislative amendments as a resu…

Carried out on December 15, 2020, Operation Minotaur is a strategic air force (SAF) power projection demonstration. Five Rafales, accompanied by tanker planes and an E-3F, carried out an air raid lasting over 10 hours – and over 8000 km – from Metropolitan France for a simulated attack of Air Base 1…

General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., Sterling Heights, Michigan, was awarded a $4,620,000,000 fixed-price-incentive contract to produce Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks.

Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimat…

On December 17, the National Assembly adopted the 2021 budget. The share allocated to the Ministry of the Armed Forces increased by 1.7 billion euros compared to the budget voted last year, an increase of 4.5%, in accordance with the trajectory provided for by the Military Programming Law (LPM) 2019…

Air Force and Pentagon investigators opened a criminal probe of Lockheed Martin Corp. in 2016 over faulty coolant line tubing inside F-35 jets after 57 were either temporarily grounded or required production line fixes, according to officials confirming the previously undisclosed inquiry.

The U.S…

The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) in its meeting, today held under the Chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh approved Capital Acquisition proposals of various Weapons / Platforms / Equipment / Systems required by the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force at an approxim…