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The Navy's Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle program is undergoing a major change, shedding the small helicopter used in earlier versions for a new model with greater range and payload.
France on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into security at a nuclear submarine base off its western coast following a report that the ultra-sensitive site could easily be targeted by terrorists.
'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer,' said retired US Navy Adm. Timothy Keating.
The US Navy will start to experiment with 3-D printing this year by setting up printers in Norfolk, Va., and San Diego to produce custom-designed plastic parts and gadgets that crews can use.
As part of its policy to strengthen defense ties with countries in the Asia Pacific Region, India plans to improve relations with Australia and Thailand.
The US House Armed Services Committee is raising new concerns about the Littoral Combat Ship program and is urging the Navy to spend more annually on new ships.
US-based Electric Boat has signed on to work with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to devise a fix for the company's overweight S-80 submarine, the Spanish Defence Ministry said, after engineers discovered the sub is so heavy it could not resurface if submerg
Taiwan has deployed a powerful multiple-launch rocket system on an offshore island to guard against any amphibious landing by China, local media reported Wednesday.
May has been celebrated in song and words as merry, charming, even lusty.
Construction contracts worth more than $6 billion were awarded Monday to shipbuilders General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls to build nine new DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the US Navy announced, with an option for a tenth ship.
Chinese warships will continue to patrol waters where Beijing has territorial claims, a top general said Sunday, amid simmering rows with neighbouring countries over the South China Sea and islands controlled by Japan.
The multinational dimension to improving security and military surveillance in the world's vast Arctic region will top the agenda when defense chiefs from the eight leading Arctic nations meet June 11 in Greenland to discuss future challenges.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Sunday visited the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship deployed in Singapore, a symbol of Washington's strategic 'pivot' towards Asia.
According to a report by the Senate's standing committee on defense released Thursday, the Pakistan Air Force has suspended its upgrade and development plan due to a lack of funds.
The Japanese government will move as early as next week to propose legislation to establish a National Security Council (NSC) headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to a source familiar with the issue.
A. I would use 'priorities' instead of 'challenges,' and my first priority was to get to know the people working in the ministry.
Norway's ambition of persuading NATO to establish a strong direct military presence in the Arctic High North — and as a strategic counterweight to Russia's intensifying rearming programs in the region — suffered a setback after the leader of NATO said the
A. This is a break from the current trend — FREMM included — towards an uninterrupted hull with stealth capabilities.
Thales UK has inked a 10-year deal with the British Ministry of Defence to provide in-service support for 17 of the major sensor systems carried onboard Royal Navy submarines and surface warships.
After almost seven decades of maintaining a limited defense posture, Japan should develop its amphibious and pre-emptive strike capability while bolstering sea- and ground-based ballistic-missile defenses, according to policy proposals by the country's ru
Poland's leading defense manufacturer, the Bumar Group, rebranded itself as Polish Defense Holding (PHO) May 22.
Despite the uncertain economic climate, the biennial International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (IMDEX) was fully booked last week.
If anyone wanted to see evidence of the US Navy's steps toward rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific last week, it was right there in haze gray.
The USS Freedom, first of the US Navy's littoral combat ships, was forced to return to port in Singapore Tuesday after sediment was discovered in the ship's lube oil system.
In its first swipe at the 2013 defense authorization bill, the House Seapower subcommittee approved a new cost cap for the US Navy's Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, and rejected again a service request to decommission nine ships as an economy measure.
Canada's multibillion-dollar naval shipbuilding program is heading into stormy seas, critics say, as new questions emerge about costs and the capability of domestic shipyards.
As warships get sleeker and stealthier, the head of the Italian Navy wants to buck the trend and plan a one-size-fits-all warship that will be cheap, roomy and dual use, even making space for containers on deck.
Five more coastal patrol ships are moving to Bahrain starting this summer.
Asia-Pacific nations are modernizing their surface and underwater naval capabilities by buying stealthy warships, attack submarines, patrol vessels, sensors, radars, missiles and unmanned systems.
The White House is working to fill several high-level Pentagon posts as incumbents prepare to step down as the Obama administration begins a second term amid a fury of budget uncertainty.
Taiwan held a military exercise Thursday in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies from Manila.
The US Navy launched an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier Tuesday morning.
Addressing the top commanders of the Indian Navy on Tuesday, Defence Minister A.K. Antony announced that additional naval bases and air stations are required to extend the Navy's reach.
Vice Admiral John Miller, commander of the US Fifth Fleet, said on Sunday that a massive naval minesweeping exercise involving 41 countries was not directed at Iran.
North Korea has criticized the arrival of the US aircraft carrier Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an 'extremely reckless' provocation and a rehearsal for war against the communist state.
France is looking to sell naval company DCNS to electronics specialist Thales and broker a partnership between Nexter and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann in a bid to beat a budget crunch and slim down the land weapons sector, a source briefed on the subject said.
A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier Nimitz will arrive in South Korea this weekend for sea drills, officials said Friday, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea.
The French special operations command led for a first time in Europe a three-day trade show and conference, signaling the niche market formed by the élite forces' operational needs.
Flawed assumptions and immature data were behind a 150 percent rise in the estimated cost of Britain switching its planned carrier strike aircraft force from the STOVL F-35B to the conventional takeoff F-35C, says a report from the National Audit Office (
Denmark's ranking military officer 'strongly believes' his country will settle on its next-generation fighter design by mid-2015, expressing confidence in a timetable laid out earlier this year.
Plans to expand the American naval presence in the Pacific with new ships and hi-tech weaponry will go ahead despite steep budget cuts, the US Navy's top officer said before a trip to the region.
The launch of the US aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford has been moved back from July to November, a consequence of production delays identified two years ago.
China continues to rapidly modernize and expand its military and has deployed an anti-ship missile that could attack vessels more than 1,500 kilometers away, according to a new Pentagon report.
France will develop and build a new anti-ship missile with the UK, taking a big step in bilateral cooperation that allows European missile maker MBDA to consolidate industrial capabilities, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
While North Korea has garnered attention as Asia's top hotspot, experts worry that the real problem is between Beijing and Tokyo over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyu Islands.
Australia announced plans to purchase 12 new-build Boeing EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft although it affirmed its commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter program.
The US must increase its intelligence- gathering capacity in Africa 15-fold in the short term to counter the threat posed by regional Islamic extremist groups and maritime piracy, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea, according to a top US general.
The recent announcement that New Zealand is to acquire more Seasprite helicopters will expand naval operational capabilities but finding the personnel to maintain and operate them remains a problem.
An effort by Japan to put boots on the ground and install a radar monitoring station on one of its islands could be derailed by a few hundred islanders as the country's new administration tries to provide a more muscular, in-your-face defense posture to C
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