Regional MRO Capability Needs to be Fixed
Considering the cost of MRO over the lifetime of a platform, it is only recently that this vital capability is being built up in...
The Silent Service
As tensions continue to escalate in the South and East China Seas, the submarine race continues unabated in the Asia-Pacific region, where navies are...
Pakistan’s Submarines Entrusted to Turkey
Achieving its first engineering exports in the field of submarines, a strategic field that requires advanced technologies, STM Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş....
Train As You Fight
The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) concept can be traced back to the 1950s. Its emergence reflected broader trends in air power, including the increasing...
Malyshev Plant: Batches of “Oplot” and “Bulat” Tanks Transferred
UKROBORONPROM SE “Malyshev Plant” closed 2017 with a record for the enterprise sum of products sold, exceeding 3 billion UAH. For comparison: in 2014...
Care from the Air
One of the world’s largest operators of aircraft in conflict zones is the United Nations. Relying on the provision of aircraft from member states...
More nations to take part in Cobra Gold
Many more countries have expressed interest in taking part in the multinational Cobra Gold military exercise in Thailand this year, Supreme Commander Thanchaiyan Srisuwan...
Bolt to the Blue
The story of land-based medium- to long-range Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAM) in the Asia-Pacific is one of considerable contrasts. For example, the People’s Republic of...
Turkish Rocket Tested
The Laser Guided Long Range Anti-Tank Missile System L-UMTAS Missile, developed by Roketsan, has been fired from the indigenously-designed TAI Hurkus light attack aircraft...
SharpEye™ radar for Pakistan Navy Submarine upgrade
Following the announcement in February 2017 that Kelvin Hughes will be supplying the SharpEye™ Doppler submarine radar system to the mid-life upgrade program for...