What we know about Northrop Grumman’s first-of-its-kind countermeasure against Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGV) 26/09/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to advance the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program, which aims to develop a… [read more]

BAE Systems receives 60 million pounds, 4-year contract to develop STINGRAY Mod 2 26/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The MOD has now publicly announced the award of a 60.1 million pounds contract to BAE Systems for the Assessment Phase of the STINGRAY lightweight… [read more]

Philippines’s ongoing Modernization Programme takes CenterStage in ADAS 2024 Today 25/09/2024 | ADAS 2024 MANILA, Philippines, 25 September 2024 – ADAS 2024 opened today with Philippines’s ongoing Modernisation Programme taking the centerstage. Not on its 10th Anniversary in the… [read more]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Unmanned Surface Vehicles Can Deliver Expeditionary Logistics 25/09/2024 | George Galdorisi Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and the grinding war that has followed, will be studied in war colleges for years, perhaps even decades. Among the… [read more]

Fincantieri NexTech, IDS, Graal Tech and WSense pull SAND to REPMUS 25/09/2024 | Editorial Team Fincantieri, along with its subsidiaries Fincantieri NexTech and IDS (Ingegneria dei Sistemi), is participating for the second consecutive year in the REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and… [read more]

Large FPV attack drones and drone-interceptors sought by the UK-led Drone Coalition for Ukraine 25/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The UK MoD, on behalf of the International Drone Capability Coalition that it leads, has published two Invitations to Tender for 2 distinct capabilities to… [read more]

ADAS 2024: Armed Forces of the Philippines Growing in Capability 25/09/2024 | Mike Rajkumar The Philippines is accelerating its military modernisation in the face of continued disputes with China in the West Philippine Sea and rising global tensions. With… [read more]

Saab announces new munitions facility in Grayling, Michigan 24/09/2024 | Saab Press Centre Saab is moving quickly to increase U.S. munitions production capacity and meet the urgent needs of our customers, building on our decades-long relationship with the… [read more]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Cyclic Future 24/09/2024 | Atul Chandra Military rotorcrafts remain indispensable on the modern battlefield, but as conflicts in Afghanistan and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war have shown, the current-generation of helicopters in… [read more]

Lockheed Martin presents the ‘extreme range’ JASSM 24/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The AGM-158 Extreme Range (XR) is a development of the proven Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) family of munitions which has established itself as the… [read more]

Leonardo finalises the acquisition process of GEM Elettronica 24/09/2024 | CAROLINA PAIZS Yesterday, Leonardo finalised the acquisition process of GEM Elettronica, an Italian company based in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno) and specialising in the production… [read more]

Preview from FW 1/2024 - Interview with Aeronautics 23/09/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Aeronautics has recently expanded its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) portfolio with two notable additions: the ORBITER 2 LM and the ORBITER 4 VTOL. These systems… [read more]

Analyzing the Wave of Israeli Air Attacks on Hezbollah 23/09/2024 | Pietro Batacchi As we partly anticipated on FW-MAG, Israel is capitalizing on the previous days' actions against Hezbollah. This morning saw the largest wave of Israeli air… [read more]

Ukraine: artillery munitions is the truly strategic (missing) aid 23/09/2024 | Igor Markic In a recent public release, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, stated that, between 6 and 14 August, Russian artillery has delivered… [read more]

USMC SLV soon in Australia for island-hopping testing 23/09/2024 | Fabio Di Felice The US Marine Corps will deploy one of its experimental ships, known as Stern Landing Vessel (SLV), in Australia for a series of tests with… [read more]

Russian-Chinese Air Maritime exercise OCEAN 24 in the Pacific 23/09/2024 | Fabio Di Felice The Russian military launched exercise OCEAN 24, a massive naval and air drill spanning across the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic… [read more]

Winds of war between Israel and Lebanon 19/09/2024 | Tommaso Massa The Israeli operation conducted on Tuesday 17th, with thousands of Hezbollah pagers exploding simultaneously in different areas of Lebanon (and Syria as well!), was followed… [read more]

Italy expands its Army modernisation roadmap 19/09/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone Within the recently published DPP 2024-2026 (multi-year defence planning and procurement document), Italy has expanded its budget dedicated to land programmes in the largest modernization… [read more]

US Army procuring and evaluating new drones of all sizes 19/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli The US Army has selected Anduril Industries and Performance Drone Works to provide Small Uncrewed Air Systems that will equip Infantry Companies within Brigade Combat… [read more]

The United Kingdom evaluates IBCS for its Ground Based Air Defences 18/09/2024 | Gabriele Molinelli Last March, the UK had launched a Request for Information (RfI) about Command and Control (C2) solutions suitable for use within the Land Ground Based… [read more]