Centurion-headquartered trade union Solidarity claims Denel top management received a 60% salary increase last year.

The 2017/18 financial year saw 29 Armscor personnel “granted severance or special packages” compared to two in 2016/17 and zero the previous financial year.

Denel maintains allegations around a bursary awarded to the son of North West premier Supra Mohamapelo are false.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the extension of the anti-piracy Operation Copper in the Mozambique Channel for another year.

RMS St. Helena Britain’s last working postal ship was for almost three decades the main source of contact between one of humanity’s remotest islands and the outside world.

With sea trade being one of Africa’s largest sources of income, a wave of new port infrastructure and upgrades along African coasts are set to make ports even more attractive to an influx of trade. In fact, a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on port development...

Nigeria’s upper chamber of parliament on Tuesday said it would invite the central bank governor and the ministers of finance and defence to explain the release of $462 million to buy helicopters, a lawmaker said.

A Zimbabwean delegation has visited the Ulan-Ude Aviation Factory, part of the Russian Helicopters group, to view the VIP modification of Mi-171E helicopters.

Ukraine signed a preliminary agreement on Friday with France to buy 55 helicopters from a division of Airbus to be used by the police, border guards and emergency services.

A telling question has been asked by Congress of the People (COPE) chief whip, Deidre Carter, after her party was told the SA Air Force’s (SAAF) VIP squadron – 21 – is grounded because of delays in processing and awarding maintenance contracts for aircraft....

Science and Technology Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said the latest South African cube satellite, which has been sent off to India for launch, will help gather data to unlock economic growth in the oceans economy.

The Nigerian Air Force has finished training two Liberian pilots, the first since the end of that country’s civil war in 2003, and who will now return to Liberia to help establish the Liberia Air Wing.

The South African National Defence Force has indicated it is serious about eliminating sexual exploitation and abuse by its deployed soldiers and has come up with numerous interventions after a three-day conference on the subject.

Elements of the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) moved into the government hospital in the North West provincial capital, Mafikeng, in the early hours of Saturday to take over provision of medical and other healthcare facilities.

The maritime defence component of the Department of Defence’s (DoD) performance plan for the current year is – again – symptomatic of the malaise the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) finds itself it.

Aircraft carriers are “100,000 tons of diplomacy”, as Henry Kissinger once said. They provide great political strength as mobile air bases since they allow for maritime supremacy and even strikes deep inside an enemy’s territory. And despite growing criticism...

Milkor, diversifying from its history as a supplier of 40 mm grenade launchers, is promoting its MN Centurion patrol boat at DSA 2018 in Malaysia as well as its new 4x4 armoured vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

South Africa will play a leading role in a major international scientific expedition next year to survey the underside of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea.

Zimbabwean nurses called off a strike against poor working conditions and returned to work on Monday, a nurses union said.

One person was killed when Madagascar police fired tear gas at opposition demonstrators protesting against new electoral laws they say are designed to lock out their candidate from a presidential election due this year.

Protests flared in Senegal’s capital and a parliamentary debate descended into pushing and shoving over a change to an election law critics say will make it impossible for minor candidates to run for president in 2019.

The South African Military Heath Service (SAMHS) will move into the North West province to reinforce medical care at its provincial hospital following a strike by health sector workers.

Six farm attacks reported in 72 hours at the start of this week have again put the spotlight on rural security, or the lack of it.

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the strongman who is widely regarded as the most important player in the overcrowded cast of characters determining Libya’s uncertain future, has aptly been called the ‘divisive unifier’.

In a telephone call with the emir of Kuwait in January, U.S. President Donald Trump pressed the Gulf monarch to move forward on a $10 billion fighter jet deal that had been stalled for more than a year.

U.S. senators announced long-awaited legislation on Monday to provide congressional authorization for campaigns against militant groups in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, as lawmakers push to take back authority over the military from the White House.

France’s Dassault Aviation aims to take the lead on the development of a new European fighter jet, its chief executive told a German magazine.

Boeing predicts that African carriers will need 1 220 new airliners to meet 5.9% annual commercial airline growth between 2017 and 2036. African airlines currently have a total of 74 Boeing aircraft on order at the moment and Boeing aircraft comprise nearly 70...

Zimbabwe has bought two Boeing 777 aircraft and an Embraer plane from Malaysia, the finance minister said on Wednesday, adding the planes would be leased to a new local airline until national carrier Air Zimbabwe returned to profitability.

After a major decline over the last two years, the level of aviation activity in South Africa is starting to improve, according to the latest Aviation Activity Index released by the Commercial Aviation Association of Southern Africa (CAASA).

After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies launched missile strikes as punishment.

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Air strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain against Syrian military targets could give terrorism an opportunity to expand in the region, the Iraqi foreign ministry said on Saturday.