The Iron Dome, which the United States helped finance, has apparently proven to be 85 to 90 percent successful in shooting down Hamas rockets fired at Israel. A system that shoots down nine out of 10 rockets is less effective when hundreds, or even thousands, of rockets are involved, andRead More →
Denel, the state-owned defence company, is in a spiral of terminal decline. Yet there is no urgency or apparent strategy from the government to deal with the situation. The delay and indecision from Denel’s sole shareholder has made its predicament all the worse. Denel has cutting-edge technology in drones, fifthRead More →
The proof-of-concept test was successfully conducted by transporting light-weight logistical equipment from the Mid Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC), Naval Station Norfolk on board USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) while the Ford-class aircraft carrier was in-port. The long-range cargo transport, dubbed Blue Water UAS, is designed to operate withRead More →
Darren Olivier – Africa is characterised by asymmetric warfare which requires the larger, more technologically advanced combatant to be able to exercise dominance over small, convoluted and inaccessible places. These places may be dense urban environments such as cities or shack settlements, or remote jungles. This requires small, agile helicopters that can provide fast point to point intervention. The most successful of theseRead More →
A U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV ‘drone’ successfully force landed in Niger in West Africa. U.S. Africa Command said the remotely piloted aircraft conducted an emergency landing in the vicinity of Agadez, Niger, on 23 January. “The aircraft experienced a mechanical malfunction while conducting a routine mission in support of operations in the region,” the command said inRead More →
The headquarters of the United States Space Command was supposed to be based in Colorado. Since then-President Donald Trump revived the command in 2018, the state had been its temporary home, and last February, when the search for a permanent location was still on, he had teased that the current arrangement couldRead More →
Details have come to light on the four ex-Israeli Air Force F-16s headed to North America. Top Aces is the first private contractor offering red air adversary support by getting its hands on fourth-generation fighters. During their previous combat careers in Israel, three of these jets brought down Syrian MiGs duringRead More →
(Des Barker – In an extract from his book, Recollections From a Test Pilot’s Logbooks, Des Barker describes the flight test clearance of the V3C on the Mirage F1). Under the international arms embargo the South African defence industry was forced to design and develop its own weapons for the SAAF’s fighter force. Read More →
The Yakovlev Yak-130 (Mitten) is a subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer, light fighter and potential light attack aircraft, able to replicate characteristics of Russian 4th and 5th generation fighters. In the early 1990s, the Soviet government asked the industry to develop a new aircraft to replace the Czech-made Aero L-29 DelphinRead More →
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is a supersonic variable-sweep wing, heavy bomber used by the United States Air Force. It is one of three strategic bombers in the U.S. Air Force fleet as of 2020, the other two being the B-2 Spirit and the B-52 Stratofortress. The B-1 was first envisioned in the 1960s asRead More →
