Saab Grintek Defence (SGD) will produce the Integrated Defensive Aids Suite (IDAS) for H225M Caracal multirole utility helicopters under a new contract from Airbus Helicopters.

South African company Ansys has posted positive financial results for its defence division, which experienced revenue growth of 108% in the last financial year.

Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) recently hosted members of the Military Attaché Advisory Corps (MAAC) at their facilities outside Potchefstroom, and plans to follow the visit up with a capability demonstration in the future.

Nineteen coastal countries stretching from Senegal to Angola have started working together in a joint effort at fighting crime at sea.

South Korea has dispatched its anti-piracy naval unit to waters off Somalia after communication with a Mongolian fishing vessel was cut when it requested help, fearing it was being followed by a suspected pirate vessel.

The Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) has deployed a Challenger 604 maritime surveillance aircraft to support the French-led Combined Maritime Force (CMF), which was set up to fight piracy in the Indian Ocean waters off the coast of Somalia and the broader Horn of...

Here are details of rotary wing orders and announcements made during the 2017 Paris Air Show last week.

As they do not need a runway, politicians love helicopters but in Britain and Norway, a ban on a model used by the president of Botswana, General Ian Khama, has aviation experts shaking their heads.

China’s first peacekeeping helicopter unit has arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to join the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

Nigeria has apparently ordered Su-30 fighter jets from Russia and has already received two examples.

Here are details of military orders and announcements made during the 2017 Paris Air Show last week.

Kenya specifically asked for the L-3 Technologies-configured Air Tractor AT-802 aircraft and not L-3’s rival IOMAX, according to L-3 officials, but IOMAX nevertheless continues to contest the sale of 12 armed AT-802Ls to Kenya.

Military recruitment scams have become part and parcel of the wider – and dodgier - South African employment landscape with this year’s edition the first to take place in Pretoria, the country’s military capital.

The Defence Force Service Commission (DFSC) has recommended against delinking salary from rank in the entire South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in order to prevent salary stagnation, but has suggested other methods to combat the problem, which affects...

A just over 30% cut in the salaries and wages allocation of the national defence budget is impacting negatively on the utilisation of a major part of the South African military machine – it’s part-time component.

Normally found off the Antarctic peninsula, surveying un- or poorly-charted waters and carrying out experiments with polar scientists, once autumn descends on the Southern Hemisphere, the Royal Navy vessel HMS Protector retreats to African waters to promote the...

A huge explosion was heard from a ship off the coast of Somalia's Puntland region on Monday and flames were seen rising from what was possibly a foreign naval vessel, an official told Reuters.

In the final stages of a three-and-a-half month, two ocean goodwill and naval exercise mission, Indian Naval Ship (INS) Tarkash arrived in Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town, on Wednesday morning.

With South Africa’s cybercrime attacks on the rise, government is set to collaborate with France in order to boost the cyber and digital skills capacities which are key in investigating such crimes.

Around 50 protesters were arrested following violent clashes with Moroccan police in Al-Hoceima on Monday during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a local rights activist said.

Tanzania has threatened to arrest and expel activists, as well as deregister all non-governmental organisations campaigning for gay rights.

A Zimbabwean pastor at the heart of a protest movement against President Robert Mugabe last year is set to appear in court after he was arrested addressing students demonstrating over fees, his lawyer said.

Four police officers and four civilians were killed when their truck hit a landmine on a road near Kenya's border with Somalia, police officials said, in the second such attack this month.

A Swedish citizen held hostage by al Qaeda militants for nearly six years has been released, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

HMS Queen Elisabeth, the biggest warship ever built for the Royal Navy, has finally sailed on her initial sea trials. Until her F-35B fighters become available, sometime in the early 2020s, she will hold the title of the world’s largest helicopter carrier. ...

China's military on Wednesday launched a new type of domestically-built destroyer, state media said, the latest addition to the country's rapidly expanding navy.

Europe is embarking on an expensive and politically charged effort to develop a new combat jet that will shape the future of the European fighter industry and its three existing programs: Eurofighter, France's Rafale and Sweden's Gripen.

Here are details of civil aviation and space orders and announcements made during the 2017 Paris Air Show last week.

Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) promise to be the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest market analysis.

With fires recently causing a spate of disasters both in SA and globally, modern drones stand to offer multi-faceted support in combating fires and disaster relief operations.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visited a Russian air base at Hmeymim in western Syria on Tuesday, his first visit to the base from which Russian jets have played a crucial role in support of his war effort.

Iraqi forces on Tuesday pushed towards the river side of Mosul's Old City, their key target in the eight-month campaign to capture Islamic State's de-facto capital and Iraq's prime minister predicted victory soon.

The battle to take full control of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days and an attempted fight-back by the militants failed, an Iraqi general told Reuters on Monday.