The French bidder vying to build Australia’s new fleet of submarines is pledging to create thousands of local jobs and share sensitive military technology, as the politically charged contest for the A$50bn contract intensifies

Russia is to definitively scrap its legendary typhoon class nuclear-powered submarine, the deadly Soviet-era vessel that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster The Hunt for Red October.

Only seven countries in the entire world deploy nuclear weapons at sea, an exclusive and deadly club.

Littoral warfare is all the rage these days, being able to snuggle in around shoals and the muddy water of contested territory and vanquish your enemy with speed and overwhelming force. That exact mission is what Finland's Patria NEMO 120mm mortar boat is all about. It is a small and fast shallow draft vessel with one huge ass, surgically accurate gun.

Written by D-Mitch In this article, I will describe briefly the future developments in the major surface combatant fleet of the five most powerful in Europe, the five navies that historically maintain and develop a strong naval fleet of very advanced warships. But what do we mean when we talk about surface combatant? According to the Office of Naval Research of the United States Navy, "..surface combatants (or surface ships or surface vessels) are a subset of naval warships which are…

Avalon International Air Show 2015 - This Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-17 completes a nice sharp, top down pass over the media area at the airfield on day 6 of the bi-annual event. My camera was actually held vertically for this one and a very tight crop it was. - Photo taken at Avalon (Geelong) (AVV / YMAV) in Victoria, Australia on March 1, 2015.

Embraer today successfully performed the first flight of the new military transport and aerial refueling jet, the KC-390. - Defense Update:

The Italian armoured vehicles specialist Iveco Defence Vehicles is poised to begin delivering its first lot of 32 Light Multirole Vehicles (LMVs) to the Brazilian Army...

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) have released data on global defence spending.

Written by D-Mitch This is the fifth article about various countries' navies today. In these articles, I briefly describe a country's naval fleet by reporting the ships in each type/category of warships and by providing a nice image where all the types of warships are illustrated and the units of its class are reported. I include the vessels that will enter in service this year and I have excluded those that are about to be decommissioned. I deliberately excluded many classes of auxiliary…

From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, this is the Real Economy Report. On August 13, South Africa's latest aircraft design, the Advanced High-performance Recon...

The Cold War foes both announced investments in space monitoring and radar systems over the past week

Boris Johnson says "the safety of the British people must come first" as he outlines a new package.

Boris Johnson says "the safety of the British people must come first" as he outlines a new package.