Defense

The Agency of Defense Development and Korean Air Aerospace Division have unveiled South Korea’s first CCA prototype, the Low Observable Wingman UAV System.

Singapore’s defense budget is increasing by double digits for the fourth time in five years as it responds to a deteriorating global security environment.

The mission system upgrades installed at Cecil Field, Florida, are known bureaucratically as the Increment 3, Block 2 version of the P-8.

HMS Lancaster, a Type 23 frigate, has put the Peregrine rotorcraft, a Schiebel S-100 uncrewed helicopter, into operations in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Oman.

The country’s defense materiel agency, FMV, has been commissioned to acquire the missile from Germany.

Airbus finds itself in this position because the A400M backlog is dwindling.

Danish government officials say the funding will be used for “new acquisitions, personnel and construction work.”

An air-launched variant of the HF-3 anti-ship missile broke cover after an AIDC F-CK-1 fighter jet was photographed carrying a pair at an unspecified airbase.

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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is continuing to modernise, with its Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar currently studying several options. Because, as he said at the 2024 NAF Training, Operations and Safety Seminar on December 4 in Abuja: “We have to rise to the threats posed by insurgency, terrorism and bandits.”

Baykar unveils the TB2T-AI, an upgrade to its best-selling TB2 uncrewed air system.

President Trump said he was removing Chairman Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.—the same general he picked to lead the U.S. Air Force during his first term.

The Defense Department ultimately will cull its civilian workforce by 5-8%.

The latest test phase was divided into six main stages—or “decks”—to verify engine and systems performance.

The combined operating profit of the four largest defense contractors jumped an estimated 72% to 2.1 trillion won ($1.5 billion).

In 2023, Korea Aerospace Industries awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to supply ALMDS as part of KAI’s minesweeping variant of the Surion utility helicopter.

TATV speaks to Yoav Tourgeman, the CEO of Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, who discusses the Israeli firm’s work in the multi-layered air defense systems realm and how its specialized R&D process brings value to its customers.

TATV Spotlight puts the focus on voice communications control system market leader Frequentis in this interview at IDEX 2025 with the company’s Usama Assi, director global strategy defense.

TATV Spotlight puts the focus on voice communications control system market leader Frequentis in this interview at IDEX 2025 with the company’s Usama Assi, director global strategy defence. This interview focuses on technologies and solutions that help interoperability.

TATV speaks to Yoav Tourgeman, the CEO of Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, who discusses the Israeli firm’s work in the multi-layered air defence systems realm and how its specialised R&D process brings value to its customers.

EDGE has ended its participation at the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) 2025, with an impressive new sales tally of US$ 2.9 Billion.

Over the last decade or so, the Bombardier Global Express – both the 6000 and more recently the 6500 series – have become the customer’s platform of choice when it comes to special mission aircraft.

Calidus now has three more B-250 prototypes being built at its Abu Dhabi facility, earmarked for development and certification of the type.