With Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2018 literally around the corner, exhibition lead partners the Commercial Aviation Association of SA (CAASA) confirmed a pair of K8 jets and a CASA 212 from the Zimbabwe Air Force as well as a pair of trainers from Sudan...

The penny appears to have dropped at Armscor which this week will host an engineering day under the theme of “engineering in tough economic times”.

Denel is one of six government owned enterprises reporting directly to the Public Enterprises ministry where a clean-up is underway, according to Minister Pravin Gordhan.

This year the Indian Ocean has seen a drop in piracy risks and an increase in maritime development and attention to the blue economy. This is largely thanks to improving maritime security.

Brazil has been welcomed to the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) family to become the 33rd nation to join the team.

A revamped strikecraft, now doing duty as an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) with the SA Navy, will port in Durban on Friday after an Operation Copper anti-piracy tasking tour in the Mozambique Channel.

Egypt’s military has taken delivery of at least 12 Ka-52 attack helicopters from Russia.

Here is a roundup of rotary wing news from the Farnborough Air Show that took place between 16 and 22 July.

Even if Farnborough International Air Show is not the place where helicopter manufacturers are expected to make major announcements, five large OEMs attended the show and displayed aircraft this year: Bell, Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo, Sikorsky and Turkish Aerospace....

Mauritania’s air force may be on the receiving end of a single Basler BT-67 turboprop aircraft modified for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) role.

The US Air Force (USAF) will have a presence at this year's Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition at AFB Waterkloof in just over a month.

France is looking for a way around the United States’ blocking of Scalp cruise missile technology for Egypt, and is exploring the possibility of replacing American components with alternatives so it can deliver the missiles as well as additional Rafale fighters...

The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Education Trust has this year made bursaries available to 90 scholars and students across the education spectrum, 16 more than last year.

The South African Military Ombud is currently taking its services to provinces where it will no doubt emphasise the success rate achieved in interventions on behalf of SA National Defence Force (SANDF) members.

It doesn’t appear to get better at the Potchefstroom-headquartered SA Army Specialist Infantry Capability (SAASIC) unit with another seven horses removed from the unit and two of them having to be euthanased.

Vice Admiral Mosuwa Hlongwane, SA Navy Chief, was the only African naval representative at last month’s Russian Federation Navy Fleet Review in St Petersburg.

Egypt is considering purchasing two Meko A200 frigates from Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) as discussions with France’s Naval Group on the acquisition of further Gowind corvettes grinds to a halt over cost concerns.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) hydrographic survey vessel Qian Weichang has paid a visit to Cape Town.

Police commanders who authorised the 2012 killing of striking miners at Marikana should be a priority for prosecution by the incoming head of the National Prosecution Authority (NPA), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said.

Most people in South Africa know about the fatal shootings at Marikana platinum mine on 16 August 2012 as police attempted to break up a week-old strike. But the television footage showed just one of two major fatal episodes on that day.

An Ethiopian court has freed 11 police officers on bail after they were detained on suspicion of negligence in a grenade attack on a rally in June attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, state-affiliated media said on Tuesday.

Militia violence in Democratic Republic of Congo prevented aid workers from reaching potential cases in an outbreak of Ebola that has so far killed 44 people, the World Health Organisation said.

One person died and five others were wounded in Uganda, police said, as security forces used teargas and live bullets to disperse a demonstration against the beating of arrested lawmakers in response to the stoning of a presidential convoy.

At least 19 people were killed in an Islamist militant attack on a village in north-east Nigeria on Sunday, a survivor said.

A suicide bomb attack on a group of teenagers studying for university exams shocked Afghanistan but was the latest in a series of attacks on schools which proved an easy target for militant groups.

The US Air Force shared a draft request for proposal for the Light Attack Aircraft with Sierra Nevada / Embraer and Textron Aviation following the conclusion of the second phase of its Light Attack Experiment.

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The process to merge South African Express (SA Express) with South African Airways (SAA) is underway, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday.

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises has welcomed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s announcement that SA Express will resume flights as early as next week.

Eritrean Airlines started regular flights to Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, the Eritrean information minister said marking another step in improving relations between the Horn of African countries after a generation of hostility.

President Ashraf Ghani congratulated Afghanistan’s armed forces in Ghazni on Friday for their victory over Taliban insurgents in the strategically important city after clashes that killed at least 150 soldiers and 95 civilians.

Iraq launched an air strike on a gathering of Islamic State fighters in neighbouring Syria, killing members of the hardline militant group who planned cross-border attacks, its military said on Thursday.

Egypt is finalising details of a long-term truce deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security source said, amid easing tensions on the border of the enclave where some two million Palestinians live.