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19 June

India Eyes Homegrown Directed Energy Weapons to Boost Anti-Drone Defense

India plans to acquire locally-made directed energy weapons to expand the defense force’s counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities.

19 June

Rojoef Manuel

Pentagon Solicits Battle Management Prototypes to Bolster Integrated Defense in Guam

The US Department of Defense has issued a request to industry partners to build prototypes to streamline American defense capabilities in Guam.

19 June

Christine Casimiro

Australian Startup Orders Flexrotor Drones From Airbus

Australian aerospace startup Drone Forge has signed a deal to acquire mission-ready Flexrotor uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) from Airbus Helicopters.

19 June

Lockheed Martin and KAI expand partnership in new deal

Christine Casimiro

Lockheed, KAI Add Drones, Rotorcraft, Space to Expanded Partnership

Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have entered a deal expanding their long-standing partnership to collaborate in the areas of drones, rotorcraft, and space.

19 June

Staff Writer With AFP

Taiwan Pursues Homegrown Chinese Spies as Beijing’s Influence Grows

Taiwan is vetting hundreds of thousands of military service members, public school teachers, and civil servants in a bid to root out potential homegrown Chinese sympathizers.

18 June

Staff Writer With AFP

Taiwan Starts Sea Tests of First Domestically Built Submarine

Taiwan has started sea trials of its first domestically built submarine, as it upgrades its military capabilities to defend against a potential Chinese attack.

18 June

Rojoef Manuel

Taiwanese Military to Form HIMARS Unit

The Republic of China Armed Forces will establish a new formation focused on M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System operations.

18 June

Taiwan's NCSIST President Li Shih-chiang and Auterion CEO Lorenz Meier sign an MoU to develop and produce unmanned systems.

Christine Casimiro

Taiwan Partners With Auterion to Produce Unmanned Systems at Scale

Taiwan’s state-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Auterion for joint, scaled production of uncrewed systems.

18 June

A Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet in flight with two JDAM-ER 500lb bombs and two Time Space Position Information pods. Deep cap: TESTS OF EXTENDED RANGE 'SMART' BOMBS The Department of Defence, in conjunction with Hawker de Havilland and The Boeing Company, has conducted the successful initial testing of an extended range Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) variant. The successful tests were conducted at Woomera, South Australia, in mid August. The development activity was conducted under the Concept Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program managed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). The Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM-ER) is a conventional JDAM, enhanced with an Australian designed wing kit which has the potential to significantly increase its range. The wing kit was developed by Hawker de Havilland, based on technology licensed from DSTO.

Christine Casimiro

US Approves $2B Sustainment for Australia’s F/A-18F, EA-18G Fleet

The US State Department has approved a possible $2-billion sustainment package for Australia’s F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare (EW) aircraft.

18 June