Defence`s Feeds

Researchers with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) expect to have a quadruped robot balancing on its own and taking its first steps by mid-2018. The goal of the Meso-scale Robotic Locomotion Initiative (MERLIN) is to develop a small robot that a marine could carry in a backpack and deploy to

Work on Leonardo’s naval Kronos dual X-band and C-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar programme is progressing, with testing and production timelines for the Italian Navy’s new 6,270 tonne Pattugliatore Polivalente d'Altura (PPA) multipurpose offshore patrol vessels

Thanks to early testing involving AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) components and the Aegis combat system, the US Navy (USN) is seeing risks being reduced for the programme, said Captain Casey Moton, programme manager for guided-missile destroyer (DDG) 51 ships. “The back end

China is making greater inroads in the Pacific with “chequebook diplomacy” and other means of influence – in some cases effectively locking the United States out of certain countries when it comes to matters of transnational crime tracking or enforcement, said US Navy Captain

As the US Marine Corps (USMC) distributes its forces more widely throughout the Pacific, the moves are creating more challenges for logistics needed to maintain readiness and related resources, said Gayle Von Eckartsberg, director of the Pacific Division at the Headquarters Marine Corps for policy,

South Africa’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, announced the replacement of the entire board of the state-owned defence group Denel on 9 April. Setting out his reasons, Gordhan pointed to Denel’s success between 2010 and 2015: an average growth of 15% per annum; an order

Boeing has been awarded a USD64 million contract to restart its production line for Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), the Department of Defense announced on 10 April. Expected to be completed by March 2019, the contract also covers the redesign of obsolete, nearly obsolete,

Event Jihadist group Okba ibn Nafaa Brigade, an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) affiliate active in Tunisia, released a statement on 7 April calling on North African Muslims to fight their governments and for attacks on French interests in Tunisia using "any means possible",

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