Radar and sensor technology and electronic and network centric warfare are top of the priority list at a new Centre of Excellence for Advanced Defence Technologies.

Military spending in Africa increased by 8.3 per cent in 2013, reaching an estimated $44.9 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which noted that global military spending has decreased in the West but is rising everywhere...

Denel is using this week’s Defence Services Asia (DSA) exhibition in Malaysia to showcase its products to countries in the wider Asia-Pacific region as well as the Malaysian defence sector and that country’s armed forces.

Ghanaian and U.S. maritime forces completed a three-week combined maritime law enforcement operation as part of African Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership (AMLEP), on April 11.

South Africa’s maritime capability, both in terms of manpower and equipment, has shrunk dramatically since democracy but the Navy can do the job it is tasked for if properly resourced.

“Last out, first back” is an apt way to describe the current and immediate preceding task of the Navy’s Valour Class frigate SAS Spioenkop (F147).

A welcome boost to SA Air Force (SAAF) Chief Lieutenant General Zakes Msimang’s stated intent of bringing the Air Force Reserve back to life has comes via the Reserve Force’s University Reserve Training Programme (URTP).

A thousand unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of all types will be manufactured this year, with output rising to 1 100 units in each of the following two years, according to Forecast International, which predicts strong growth in the UAV industry.

Tanzanian Vice President Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal was one of eleven people on board an Agusta-Bell 412 helicopter who escaped injury after it crashed on takeoff earlier this week.

Unpacking the Defence Review compiled by Roelf Meyer and his team Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, pointed out there was “an urgent need” to capacitate and re-equip the SA National Defence Force (SANDF).

The top man at the Department of Military Veterans (DMV), along with a deputy director general, have both been put on special leave with immediate effect pending an investigation.

SAS Manthatisi (S101) will be back in the water on May 5 after more than six years on the hard and in the shed for a major refit.

New SA Navy Chief, Vice Admiral Mosuwa Hlongwane, is fully aware of the tasks his arm of service has to execute and is upbeat about them in view of progress on the Navy’s capital acquisition programme.

In the course of counter-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa different nations from different task forces often meet the latest example being a multi-ship replenishment at sea.

One year ago, on March 15, we reported on the unlikely link between the tiny west African country of Gambia and Turkey which were establishing a logistical military assistance agreement. On April 3 this year, both countries decided to reinvigorate their military...

The White House on Tuesday called the massacre of hundreds of civilians in South Sudan an abomination and called for an end to the cycle of violence there.

Rebels slaughtered hundreds of civilians when they seized the South Sudan oil hub of Bentiu hunting down men, women and children who had sought refuge in a hospital, mosque and Catholic church the United Nations said.

Algerian police broke up a rare anti-government protest on Wednesday, a day before elections that look set to give President Abdelaziz Bouteflika a fourth term in office although he is still recovering from a stroke.

South Sudan peace talks were delayed again on Tuesday as UN peacekeepers battle to protect some 22 000 civilians at a base in Bentiu, where dead bodies lined the dusty streets after an ethnic massacre during rebels’ seizure of the oil town.

French peacekeepers in Central African Republic (CAR) escorted a convoy of Muslims away from the threat of violence in the capital on Monday to a town effectively controlled by Muslim rebels.

Authorities in Nigeria's northeast Borno state denied on Thursday a statement by the armed forces which had said most of the more than 100 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist rebels had been freed in a military rescue operation.

The number of US troops in Afghanistan may drop well below 10 000 - the minimum demanded by the US military to train Afghan forces - as the longest war in American history winds down, Obama administration officials briefed on the matter say.

Separatists attacked a base of the Ukrainian national guard overnight and Kiev said three separatists were killed, the worst bloodshed yet in a 10-day pro-Russian uprising in east Ukraine, overshadowing crisis talks to resolve the conflict.

A deep-sea drone completed its much-anticipated first full scan of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean, the team looking for a missing Malaysian jetliner said on Thursday, as an air and surface search became less likely to yield results.

Boeing has delivered the 8 000th 737 to come off the production line to United Airlines, marking another important milestone for the world’s best-selling airplane.

FlySafair has been granted a license for domestic scheduled passenger services, several months after it was grounded by the competition.

France’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Afrotech Project and the Swiss National Centre of Competence for Research in Robotics (NCCR), have sponsored a project aimed at using drones as a means of transport in Africa.

Chlorine gas attacks in Syria this month, if proven, expose a major loophole in an international deal to remove chemical weapons from the war-torn country and suggest chemical warfare could persist after the removal operation has finished.

The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Yemen has vowed to attack the United States, in a video apparently showing a gathering of the group celebrating a mass jailbreak of fighters.

Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country's civil war.