The Electronic Warfare South Africa 2017 International Conference and Exhibition is due to delve deeply into the art and science of electronic warfare next month, with a varied lineup of speakers examining everything from the effectiveness of chaff to artificial...

As Reutech Radar Systems (RRS) celebrates its 30th anniversary, it continues its expansion into the mining market, has launched a new radar product and is positioning for several South African National Defence Force (SANDF) projects, including Biro, Chutney and...

The 2016/17 financial year was, according to Armscor chief executive Kevin Wakeford, one in which there was “a significant and concerning decline” in the performance of the local defence industry.

In its latest annual report, for the financial year ending 31 March 2017, Armscor states it aimed at arriving at a contracting position for Project Hotel by the end of May 2017.

One hundred and twenty-one incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships were reported in the first nine months of the year, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has said in its latest report.

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence has just completed a week long regional training course in Cape Town focused on the theme of ‘Protecting the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).’

Togo may receive five ex-French Army Gazelle helicopters as the procurement process is being reviewed by the French government.

The United States Air Force’s (USAF’s) 811th Operations Support Squadron has provided UH-1 helicopter training to members of the Burkina Faso air force after the West African country received two UH-1Hs from Taiwan.

Thick vegetation and a fire fanned by strong winds saw the firefighting abilities of the SA Air Force’s (SAAF) 22 Squadron called into action and tested on Wednesday near Cape Town.

Desert Wolf has been demonstrating the Black Hornet mini-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the South African Army, which has shown strong interest in acquiring the system.

Four Moldovan citizens were killed and two others injured when a cargo plane chartered by the French military crashed into the sea near the airport in Abidjan, Ivorian and French officials said.

The Angolan Air Force is operating a Cessna Citation jet configured by Israel’s BIRD Aerosystems for the maritime surveillance role.

Next week is SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Prestige Week the fifth of its kind where enhancing social cohesion is the major aim.

SEA (sexual exploitation and abuse) guidance ahead of and during all SA National Defence Force (SANDF) deployments, internally and continentally, is an integral component of training.

South Africa will be the first country in Africa to host the 10th International Conference of Ombud Institutions for the Armed Forces (ICOAF), which will take place from 30 September to October 2018.

After issuing a tender for torpedoes, Armscor is now looking to acquire spares for the South African Navy’s submarine fleet as part of the refit process.

Ghana and Ivory Coast have set up a body to implement an international tribunal ruling on their dispute over a border running through multi-billion dollar offshore oilfields, the countries said in a statement.

The French Navy’s surveillance frigate FS Floreal, docked in the port of Durban, was damaged by the recent storm in KwaZulu-Natal, which resulted in a cargo ship colliding with the vessel.

Four people were killed in Togo in clashes between security forces and demonstrators calling for an end to a half century of Gnassingbe family rule, the security minister said.

At least one person died as police fired bullets and teargas to disperse a crowd of opposition supporters rallying against plans to extend Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s rule.

The public discourse around soldiers assisting police in high crime areas, which according to the Police Minister include Gauteng and Western Cape, could see an escalation to the level of the Marikana massacre.

Turkey’s swift response to Somalia’s deadliest truck bombing drew praise from survivors and officials who called Ankara their “only genuine” international partner, an implicit challenge to Western backers who spend billions on security.

Four Britons were kidnapped in Nigeria’s southern Delta state, a police official said.

Thousands of Somalis demonstrated against those behind bombings that killed more than 300 people, defying police who opened fire to keep them away from the site where friends and relatives were killed.

A drone hit an airplane landing at a Quebec City airport this week, the first time an unmanned flying object has collided with commercial aircraft in Canada, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said on Sunday.

The Florida inventor who designed the first “bump stock,” nearly two decades before the Las Vegas gunman used one to massacre 58 people on Sunday, never made a dime off of his creation.

Japan’s air force said on Friday it will send its new C-2 long-range heavy lift military cargo plane overseas for the first time to show it off to potential buyers in the Middle East and New Zealand.

Civilian flights were suspended for several hours at the Libyan capital’s Mitiga airport on Monday and Tuesday as rival armed groups clashed nearby, a spokesman said.

The British island of St. Helena, home to what critics called “the world’s most useless airport”, welcomed its first commercial flight on 14 October.

Airlines in southern Africa will face a potentially crippling shortage of skills and failure to hit employee transformation targets if governments do not fix basic and tertiary education, the Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) has cautioned.

The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly rapid gains in a sudden campaign that has shifted the balance of power in the country almost overnight.

U.S.-backed militias in Syria declared victory over Islamic State in its capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising flags over the last jihadist footholds after a four-month battle.

Iraqi government forces captured the major Kurdish-held city Kirkuk, responding to a Kurdish referendum on independence with a lightning strike that transforms the balance of power in the country.