The Brazilian Army is scheduled to sign a contract with Sweden's Saab Dynamics to buy RBS 70 man-portable surface-to-air missile systems.

Pakistan could sign a deal to buy up to six submarines from China before the end of 2014, senior Pakistani government officials have told IHS Jane's.

No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled on Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours.

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Defence Minister David Johnston has confirmed the need for a lengthy extension of the in-service life of the RAN's Collins class submarines to avoid any capability gap prior to introduction of the Future Submarine under Project Sea 1000.

Boeing has named Maureen Dougherty as the president of Boeing Australia and South Pacific.

CEA Technologies' achievements with its world-beating CEAFAR radar are fast becoming legion.

Readers may think that our enthusiasm for CEA's AESR, as opposed to PESA radars may be somewhat overworked, but it appears to us that CEA's radar technology has considerable promise in the development of ASMD packages.

After what has been an extraordinarily long time since they were first ordered, battlefield surveillance will be boosted across Army with the handover of 14 surveillance variants of the ASLAV from DMO to Army late last year completing the Land 112 Phase 3 project.

In a recent flight test in Australia, a Scan Eagle UAV succeeded in visually identifying an approaching Cessna aircraft, and letting its own ground-based operators know that evasive action was required.

The Defence Science and Technology Organisation and IBM Australia have entered into a strategic alliance to conduct collaborative research in a range of high-end defence technologies.

The Confederation of Indian Industry and The Australian Industry & Defence Network Incorporated have recently signed a MoU in New Delhi.

Australia's oil security will be scrutinised under a new Secretary of Defence Fellowship awarded to DSTO Senior Research Scientist Dr Greg Calbert.

The Australian motorsport community has thrown its weight behind the home grown Thales' Hawkei protected mobility vehicle.

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Boeing is helping Turkey improve its self-defence capabilities with the recent delivery of the first Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft.