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INDUSTRY

Industry

Milkor headlining at AAD 2020

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Milkor is the diamond sponsor for the 2020 edition of the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition to be held at Waterkloof Air Force...
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Denel one of more than 20 SOCs meeting Ramaphosa

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Brazilian defence minister briefed on Denel Dynamics missile range

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Armscor building name change to be decided by committee

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AEROSPACE

Aerospace

South Africa joins international space weather monitoring community

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South Africa is looking to take a leading role in the international space weather monitoring community, as it moves to become a key provider...
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Honorary RAeS Fellowship for Des Barker

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SAAF Museum Air Show set for August

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Hensoldt imaging turret to feature on Viking’s Guardian 400 world tour

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SA DEFENCE

SA Defence

Bogus “soldier” could be jailed for up to five years

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If found guilty the 29-year-old who attempted for become an “instant soldier” so he could be part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s inauguration faces up...
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SANDF members in the DRC receive medals ahead of rotation

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Mamba could be used by SAMHS as a combat ambulance

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Officer Commanding AFB Waterkloof passes away

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GOVERNANCE

Governance

Mali regional governor fired

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Mali’s council of ministers fired the governor of its central Mopti region after gunmen killed dozens of people in the latest ethnic killings there,...
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ISS: Resolving South Africa’s brutal order

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Sudan talks to resume

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Judgement reserved in Seriti Commission application

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COMPANY NEWS

COLUMNS

SA defence industry’s poor relation status must change

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More proof – if needed – that the South African defence industry is the poor relation in the national industrial sector comes from the...

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AFRICAN MILITARIES

Benin

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Congo (Republic of)

LAND

Land

General dynamics awarded support contract for Moroccan Abrams tanks

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General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $16 million contract to provide technical support for Morocco’s Abrams main battle tanks. The US Department of...
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US delivers military equipment to Niger

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The United States has delivered an initial batch of military equipment to Niger as part of efforts to strengthen the G5 Sahel group’s fight...

Mechem clears thousands of landmines in Turkey

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The enviable reputation built up by Denel Group company Mechem continues to grow with a report from Turkey showing it removed more than four...

Jordanian armoured vehicles spotted in Libya

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It appears that Jordan has delivered an unknown number of Mbombe 6x6 armoured vehicles to forces in Libya allied to Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National...

SEA

Sea

Durban port call for French patrol vessel

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French naval vessel Le Champlain arrives in Durban on Monday for a routine port call – the first for one the B2M multi-mission platforms...
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SA’s marine protection increases

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The gazetting of a network of 20 new representative Operation Phakisa: Oceans Economy Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has increased South Africa’s marine ecosystem area...

Kenyan Navy visits Mozambique

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The Kenyan Navy vessel KNS Jasiri has stopped in Maputo, Mozambique, whilst on a training cruise and delivered nearly 6 tons of medical supplies...

Damen building offshore vessel for De Beers Namibia

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Damen Shipyards Group has started construction of a new offshore vessel for De Beers Marine Namibia, which will use it for marine diamond recovery. A...

MARITIME SECURITY

Maritime Security

U.S. blames Iran for tanker attacks in Gulf of Oman, Iran rejects assertion

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The United States blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday that drove up oil prices and...
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Maritime trials and tribulations

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The guilty verdict handed down in a Sao Tome and Principe courtroom echoed across the globe. A Chilean captain and two Spanish crew members of...

Operation Atalanta now headquartered in Spain

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Just over a month since a piracy attempt was thwarted off the Horn of Africa by EU NavFor, the need for a strong maritime...

Tackling maritime threats and challenges in the Gulf of Guinea: Contributions of the Nigerian Navy

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The strategic value attached to the sea and resources therein usually heightens the exposure of littoral nations to maritime security breaches. Contiguous states are...

CIVIL SECURITY

Civil Security

Two arrested after Anti-Gang Unit attack

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The Western Cape police’s Anti-Gang Unit on Wednesday night arrested two suspects and seized firearms as well as an assortment of ammunition in the...
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Blackwater founder registers company in DR Congo

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A company run by private security firm Blackwater’s founder Erik Prince registered a subsidiary in Democratic Republic of Congo with a mandate to extract...

Minister condemns attack on Anti-Gang Unit officers

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Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, has condemned the shooting and attack of six Anti-Gang Unit members in Nyanga, Cape Town, early this morning. “Attacking members...

Sudan sit-in crippled by shooting

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Bure’e Mahjoub still hopes democracy will prevail over military rule in Sudan despite the bullet wounds sustained in a raid on a protest camp...

BORDER SECURITY

Border Security

Italy’s Salvini threatens to use strict new law on German NGO boat

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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini threatened on Wednesday to use tough, new measures for the first time on a German charity ship, Sea Watch,...
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Migrants drown off Lesbos

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Two children, four women and a man drowned when a boat overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos, the coast guard said, the deadliest...

Emergency Italian decree targets migrant rescue ships

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Italy passed an emergency decree limiting entry of ships into its territorial waters, a move aimed at curbing the activity of migrant rescue boats...

Migrants stranded off Tunisia

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A rescue boat carrying around 75 migrants, most from Bangladesh, has been stuck off Tunisia for 12 days after authorities refused to let them...

HUMAN SECURITY

Human Security

Tripoli’s children struggle to study as war reaches the capital

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For 13-year-old Taha Aboud, who dreams of becoming an engineer, war in Libya’s capital Tripoli has meant his family fleeing their home and him...
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Canadians kidnapped in Ghana rescued

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Ghana forces rescued two Canadian women kidnapped last week outside their hostel in Kumasi, the Ghanaian government said in a statement. The women, aged 19...

Dogon villages attacked

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Gunmen attacked two ethnic Dogon villages in central Mali, a local official, less than 50 km from the site of a similar attack in...

Nineteen killed in Burkina Faso attack

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Unidentified assailants killed 19 people and wounded 13 in an attack on and around Arbinda in northern Burkina Faso government said. Hundreds of people died...

MIDDLE EAST

Middle East

Russia and Turkey broker ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib

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Russia and Turkey have brokered a complete ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib province between Syrian government forces and rebels, Russian news agencies cited the Russian...
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Syrian fighters burning crops, using food as “weapon of war”

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Fighters have set fire to thousands of acres of wheat and other crops in northwest Syria in a campaign that has turned food supplies...

Turkish military launches operation against militants in northern Iraq

Middle East Guy Martin -
Turkey’s military launched an operation with commandos, backed by artillery and air strikes, against Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of northern Iraq, the...

Pentagon mulling U.S. military request to send 5,000 troops to Middle East

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The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a U.S. military request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East amid increasing tensions...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

International News

Airbus agrees new contract for delayed A400M military transporter

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Airbus has reached an agreement with European state buyers to revise a contract for its delayed A400M military transporter plane, resetting Europe’s largest defense...
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Russian arms sales at $6 billion in first half of 2019

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Russian arms exports since the start of 2019 have totaled nearly $6 billion, according to Rosoboronexport chief executive Alexander Mikheyev. Speaking at the St. Petersburg...

United Technologies, Raytheon to create $120 billion aerospace and defense giant

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United Technologies Corp agreed on Sunday to combine its aerospace business with U.S. contractor Raytheon Co and create a new company worth about $121...

Pentagon eyes rare earth supplies in Africa in push away from China

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The U.S. Department of Defense has held talks with Malawi’s Mkango Resources Ltd and other rare earth miners across the globe about their supplies...

SCIENCE & DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY

Science & Defence Technology

CSIR developing synthetic aperture radar

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is developing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology for aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites. The Council...
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CSIR continues to deliver DRFM devices

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) continues to deliver its Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) devices, used in electronic warfare applications, to...

Hovering into battle

Science & Defence Technology Guy Martin -
Although people have been flying for more than a century, personal flight remains elusive. Take for example Bell Aerosystems’ Rocket Belt, which was designed in...

US warhead destroys electronics, not buildings

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The U.S. Air Force has deployed at least 20 missiles equipped with payloads that can destroy military electronics. The missile uses high-power microwaves (HPMs)...

MILITARY HELICOPTERS

Military Helicopters

Malian Mi-35 spotted ahead of delivery

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Mali’s Air Force is set to take delivery of another Mi-35M attack helicopter from Russia, with the aircraft seen undergoing test flights earlier this...
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Morocco seeking Apaches

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Morocco is looking to acquire a number of Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the United States, with the deal to be concluded within...

Another Nigerian AW109 spotted

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Leonardo Helicopters has flown a third AW109E Power helicopter destined for the Nigerian Air Force, with the rotorcraft undergoing pre-delivery test flights in Italy. The...

Exclusive – 19 Squadron Oryx pilot nominated for top UN peacekeeping medal

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The phrases “remarkable courage” and “extraordinary threat” written by no less a person than the UN Secretary-General do not affect the man they were...

CIVIL AVIATION

Civil Aviation

First flight of teen-built Sling 4 light aircraft ahead of trans-continental journey

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Tedderfield Airfield, south of Johannesburg, over the weekend witnessed the public unveiling and first flight of a Sling 4 light aircraft built by a...
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South African Airways requests urgent state funding as it appoints interim CEO

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South African Airways (SAA) appointed its head of operations as acting chief executive on Friday and said it needs 4 billion rand ($265 million)...

Global airlines slash profit forecast on protectionism fears

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Global airlines slashed a widely watched industry profit forecast by 21% on Sunday as an expanding trade war and higher oil prices compound worries...

South African Airways CEO quits over lack of state support

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South African Airways’ CEO Vuyani Jarana has resigned after less than two years in the job, saying his turnaround strategy for the loss-making airline...

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

African Development Bank showcases impact of Korean drone technology for agriculture

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Drone technology is being used to collect and analyse data, and monitor irrigated areas, combat pests At a special event highlighting the partnership between the...
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Advances in drone technology come under the spotlight

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Guy Martin -
Advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, technology were once again under the spotlight at a Drone Conference held at Emperor’s Palace last...

CSIR progressing with UAV developments

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Guy Martin -
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is getting ready for flight testing of its Long Endurance Modular Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (LEMU), which...

U.S. to sell 34 surveillance drones to allies in South China Sea region

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The Trump administration has moved ahead with a surveillance drone sale to four U.S. allies in the South China Sea region as acting Defense...

NATIONAL SECURITY

National Security

Nigerian army base overrun by Islamists

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Islamist insurgents overran a Nigerian army base in the north-east, killing at least the commander, two Nigerian security sources said. Militants took a Nigerian army...
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Seventeen Darfur deaths confirmed

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The United Nations confirmed the killing of 17 people and burning of more than 100 houses in Deleij village in Darfur region of Sudan...

Malian president visits massacre site

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President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita of Mali visited the site of an ethnic massacre in central Mali where gunmen killed dozens, vowing again to crack...

Boko Haram attack Lake Chad island

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Around 300 suspected Boko Haram militants swarmed onto a Lake Chad island in Cameroon’s far north killing 24 people, including 16 Cameroonian soldiers, officials...

CYBER DEFENCE

Cyber Defence

General Barker to speak at EWSA 2019 conference

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Retired Major General Des Barker will be one of the keynote speakers at the Electronic Warfare South Africa (EWSA) 2019 conference, taking place at...
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Cyber war could cripple a country in a month

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Government may not be taking the risk of cyber attack on critical infrastructure seriously enough. So says Veronica Schmitt, academic and Lead Forensic Analyst at...

Battle lines drawn in coming cyber war

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Cyber analyst Pukhraj Singh has said every premonition he’s had about how diplomacy and conflict that is going to play out in the cyber...

Adopting military tactics to fight the cyber war

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Businesses rely on predictions in order to set their strategies for the future, yet no one can predict precisely what will happen in 10...

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

Government Affairs

Document: Department of Defence annual report 2017-18

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The Department of Defence has released its annual report for the 2017/18 financial year. Click here to view the document: DoD_Annual_Report_2017-18
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Read the DoD annual report

Government Affairs Guy Martin -
With currently no indication when the Department of Defence (DoD) website (www.dod.mil.za) will be up and running again, defenceWeb has decided to...

Speech: Cyril Ramaphosa at the opening of AAD 2018

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Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the opening of the Africa Aerospace and Defence Exhibition, Waterkloof Air Force Base, Pretoria, 19 September...

Speech: Mapisa-Nqakula at AAD 2018 media breakfast

Government Affairs Guy Martin -
Address by the minister of defence and military veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, on the occasion of the official media breakfast of the Africa...
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