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Weapon / Missile Investment

Australia to Invest in Indigenous Guided Weapons

29 Jul, 10:25
2 min read

The Australian government aims to develop its own guided weapons, ending the dependency on overseas ones.

Navy / Maritime Weapon / Missile

US Navy Ends Rail Gun Programme

27 Jul, 03:21
3 min read

The US Navy has ended the railgun project that fires projectiles at up to seven matches using electricity. The Navy’s plans to build an electromagnetic railgun.

Navy / Maritime Weapon / Missile

French Navy’s Laser Weapon gets Prepared for 2022

27 Jul, 01:23
2 min read

French Navy is preparing to test the HELMA-P laser weapon system in 2020. The system has passed the trials on the ground recently.

Weapon / Missile

Russia Tests Hypersonic Zircon Missile

24 Jul, 09:31
2 mins

Russia has reportedly conducted a successful test launch of a hypersonic cruise missile, Zircon. Zircon is known in Russia as 3M22 and to NATO as the SS-N-33.

Weapon / Missile

Sarsılmaz Receives an Improvement on SAR9 METE

24 Jul, 12:22
1 min read

Turkish Land Forces and Sarsilmaz have announced that Sarsılmaz’s SAR9 METE gun rear slide plate cover will be altered with a new one.

Weapon / Missile

India tests surface-to-air missile Akash-NG

21 Jul, 03:43
1 min read

Indian Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested the New Generation Akash Missile (Akash-NG), at Integrated Test Range (ITR) on July 21, 2021.

Navy / Maritime Weapon / Missile

First Photo of U.S. Remedy to Counter UAS attacks

20 Jul, 05:25
1 min read

The U.S. Navy released the photo of the USS Stockdale fitted with the new Optical Dazzling Interdictor (ODIN), which will be used against SWARM attacks consist of UAVs or USVs. The photo was taken while conducting a replenishment at sea with USS Carl Winson (CVN-70).

Weapon / Missile

SYS Builds M2 12.7 Anti-aircraft Gun

16 Jul, 06:04
2 min read

Samsun Yurt Savunma (SYS) has built Turkey’s first close air defence heavy machine gun at 12.7 calibres. SYS is known for its small arm Canik.

Weapon / Missile Sensors

Roketsan’s proximity fuse is tested on MK-82 and Teber

14 Jul, 05:49
1 min read

Turkish Air Force tested Roketsan’s proximity fuse with a TEBER, and a laser guidance kit added MK-82 general-purpose bomb.

Weapon / Missile Bilateral Relations

Israeli Company Rafael Targets Russian Vessel 962 on Animation

11 Jul, 06:30
1 min read

Rafael has unveiled the Maritime and Land-Based “Sea Breaker” cruise missile in an animated video where it destroys a Soviet-made missile corvette which is active use in Black Sea Fleet.

Weapon / Missile

Demir: Two Good News From Hisar

10 Jul, 03:32
2 min read

President of Defence Industries Professor İsmail Demir stated that the HİSAR A+ Air Defence Missile System has been delivered with all its elements and that the HİSAR O+ Air Defence Missile System, which destroys a high-speed target at long range and high altitude in a live warhead test campaign, is in the phase of mass production.