Havelsan, which operates in the defense and informatics sectors in Turkey, is continuing its efforts to integrate various weapon systems into the BARKAN unmanned ground vehicle. As part of these… Continue reading "Turkish UGV BARKAN Successfully Fires Its First Guided Missile"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s first Weekend Briefing of the year. This is where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. In this weekend’s issue, we cover Japan’s… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (2-6 January)"
As a part of its planned massive defense spendings increase Japan plans to purchase up to 500 U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles by the end of fiscal year 2027. The move… Continue reading "Japan to Purchase up to 500 Tomahawks Amidst Military Budget Expansion"
India’s Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), headed by defence minister Rajnath Singh granted approval for Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for 24 acquisition proposals on 22 December. These proposals include six for… Continue reading "India Approves Procurements Worth $10 Billion Including Light Tanks, FICV And Pralay Ballistic Missiles"
On December 20, Turkey held its final Defense Industry Executive Committee (SSİK) meeting of the year. The meeting, which took place at The Presidential Complex and was presided over by… Continue reading "Turkey Green-lights Production on 25 Different Projects Including the Tayfun Short-Range Ballistic Missile"
The United States have been training Ukrainian personnel on a plethora of equipment large and small for months. Everything from small UAVs up to M777 howitzers and M142 HIMARS. The… Continue reading "United States Has Trained More Than 3,000 Ukrainians on Everything from Drones to HIMARS"
The United States Air Force has announced that its AGM-183 Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon conducted a successful test flight on December 9. The test was the first time the prototype… Continue reading "ARRW Hypersonic Missile Passes First Operationally Configured Flight Test"
The United Kingdom has signed an amendment to the European multi-national program to upgrade Aster 30 naval air defense missile to the Block 1 configuration. The UK signed on to… Continue reading "UK Joins European Aster Missile Upgrade Program"
The U.S. Navy carried out the fourth successful flight test of the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER) on the 30 November. The test firing of the Northrop… Continue reading "Northrop Grumman And U.S. Navy Conduct Fourth AARGM-ER Test Firing"
Norwegian defense company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS have announced the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy)’s selection of the Naval Strike Missile. The Dutch Ministry of Defence stated that the… Continue reading "Netherlands Navy Selects Kongsberg’s Naval Strike Missile"