April 2025

Egypt is on the verge of signing a major defense contract with South Korea for the acquisition of up to 100 FA-50 light combat aircraft, in a deal estimated to be worth over $1 billion. According to DefenseWeb, Egyptian Ambassador to South Korea Khaled Abdelrahman confirmed that negotiations with Korea...

South Korea is positioning its K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer as a potential cornerstone of Canada’s ongoing military modernization program, offering an alternative to U.S.-made artillery systems as tensions between Ottawa and Washington continue to simmer. According to Canadian press reports from early March, a delegation of South Korean defense officials...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has officially codified and cleared the domestically developed UNEX UGV, an amphibious unmanned ground vehicle, for operational deployment within the country’s Defense Forces, according to a report from Militarnyi citing the Ministry. The UNEX UGV is a remote-controlled, armored wheeled platform designed to operate in challenging...

The United States is deploying its latest ship-killing missile system as part of a major military exercise with the Philippines near the South China Sea and Taiwan. According to Reuters and local media including the Philippine Inquirer, the Armed Forces of the Philippines confirmed that the U.S. will field the...

French defense manufacturer CNIM Systèmes Industriels has successfully tested its newly developed armored cab under the AUROCH project, demonstrating survivability against both anti-tank mine and improvised explosive device (IED) blasts. The development, completed in under six months, reflects growing demand for rapid innovation in battlefield survivability. According to the company,...

The British Army has successfully conducted the first live-fire trials of the RapidDestroyer, a radio frequency-based directed energy weapon (RF DEW) designed to neutralize drone swarms at short range. The trials, supported by the Ministry of Defence and led by Thales UK, mark a milestone in the country’s push to...

The Indian Army has begun deploying newly manufactured Mahindra Light Specialist Vehicles (LSV) to its Northern Command. According to the Indian Army’s Southern Command, the latest batch of LSVs was dispatched this week from the Ordnance Depot in Avadi, Tamil Nadu, for immediate integration into frontline operations. The vehicles are...

Russia is expected to showcase its long-range Geran-2 kamikaze drones for the first time during the upcoming Victory Day parade on May 9, marking a rare public appearance of the weapon widely used in strikes against Ukraine. Footage from a recent rehearsal shows the drones loaded onto a KamAZ-6350 military...

The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed the first battlefield use of upgraded 220mm TBS-3M rockets for the TOS-2 “Tosochka” heavy flamethrower system. In a statement issued on April 17, 2025, the Ministry stated that the new TBS-3M munitions extend the range of the TOS-2 from 12 to 15 kilometers....