SOFEX 2014

Serbia's state-owned defence manufacturer Yugoimport has unveiled a new, indigenously developed, air-to-surface unguided rocket - the BR-VZ 128 mm M15 - that it is offering for the international market. Intended for launch from an L-128-04 four-barrel rocket launcher pod on fixed- or rotary-wing

China's Jiangsu A-Star Aviation Industries Company (A-Star) used the first Beijing exhibition promoting "civil-military integration" to reveal new combat aircraft electro-optical systems, some of which may be slated for the country's fifth-generation fighters. A-Star's booth featured

The Polish Land Forces launched a tender on 23 July to buy 882 light multipurpose 4x4 vehicles to replace its fleet of ageing Honker and UAZ469 jeeps. Poland seeks 841 soft skin vehicles and 41 armoured variants with gross vehicle mass under 3,500 kg to be delivered in 2016-2022. The new vehicles

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will begin taking delivery in 2016 of about 30,000 new EF88 Austeyr 5.56 mm rifles under an AUD100 million (USD75 million) contract to be signed later this month, a Department of Defence (DoD) spokesman confirmed to IHS Jane's on 7 July. The contract, to be signed

Iran has built a second Ghadir long-range early-warning radar, the Fars News Agency reported on 4 July. Fars said Iranian air defence commander, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, had attended a ceremony in the city of Ahvaz (Ahwaz) in the western province of Khuzestan earlier in the day to unveil

The German Navy has formally qualified the Saab Dynamics/Diehl Defence RBS15 Mk 3 anti-ship missile following a successful operational flight test off the coast of Sweden. Performed from the K130 corvette Magdeburg on 28 April 2015, the end-to-end test - undertaken on the Swedish Defence Materiel

Images on the Chinese internet suggest that China's Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard has begun outfitting the second of three C28A corvettes destined for the Algerian Navy with main weapon systems. IHS Jane's reported in February that the vessel, with pennant number 921, had been launched with only two Type

The US Department of State has approved the prospective sale of additional Aegis combat systems and associated shipborne components to South Korea under a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) case. The approval covers three sets of Aegis shipboard combat systems, Mk 41 vertical launching systems (VLS), data

Russia's Krylov State Research Center (KSRC) has developed innovative new technologies, which will reduce the ability of sonar to detect Russian submarines, according to Valeriy Shaposhnikov, chief of KSRC's endurance and shipping hull construction unit. "We have developed the appropriate

Key Points The announcement by the Colombian government and FARC rebels of new efforts to de-escalate the conflict has rescued the peace talks from its most serious crisis since it started in late 2012. FARC's new unilateral truce and the government's willingness to reduce military operations are

Key Points Domestic and foreign policy decisions by Saudi Arabia are probably emboldening the country's Islamist opposition, creating more favourable conditions for extremist Islamist radicalisation in the Kingdom and exacerbating the Sunni-Shia divide in the country. Without a loss of public