Navy’s Fire Scout UAV compromises BAE’s precision weapons upgrade
Edinburgh, UK – 12 October 2012 By Fiona Pringle Fire Scout UAV problems mark poor start for hi-tech APKWS integration The decision to upgrade the US Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout…
China missile test unveils fear of US in Asia Pacific
London, UK – 29 August 2012 By Sania Farooqui China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces staged a live-fire test of what appears to be a new fully functioning high altitude…
DefRep weekly recap: Sukhoi’s T-50 to trump F-35 stealth capability
London, UK – 26 August 2012 By Robert Densmore T-50 stealth comparisons Funding is expected to be approved shortly for the next phase of development of the Sukhoi T-50 fifth…
DefRep weekly recap: British defence industry fraud and malpractice
London, UK – 19 August 2012 By Robert Densmore Handling the UK defence industry with kid gloves The close connection between non-standard business practice and large defence contracts is neither…
Assad must create “Srebrenica” genocide for West to help Syria
London, UK – 16 August 2012 By Marion Ghibaudo Syria’s rebel fighters can not expect assistance in the form of armed intervention from an outside coalition involving the US and…
DefRep weekly recap: British civil-military relations, Turkey’s purge and Afghanistan’s
London, UK – 10 August 2012 By Robert Densmore United Kingdom civil-military relations The way in which service members’ remains are handled may often be interpreted as an accurate reflection…
PKK destabilises Turkey in face of looming Syrian border conflict
London, UK – 26 July 2012 By Marion Ghibaudo Turkey’s growing armed conflict with internal Kurdish ethno-political groups has weakened its role as a regional power and potentially compromised its…
DefRep weekly recap: Israel plans next Lebanon war
London, UK – 8 July 2012 The DefenceReport weekly podcast blog takes on this week’s bombshell: the Israeli Defense Forces’ unveiling of attack plans against Lebanon. We take a closer…
DefRep weekly recap: David Axe on Korea, the Flame virus and Assad’s latest victims
London, UK – 1 June 2012 DefenceReport staff take on this week’s biggest special operations controversy – defence blogger David Axe’s reporting on a Spec Ops commander’s blunder over US…
DefRep weekly recap: Liberia’s Charles Taylor and the “enemy within” America
London, UK – 28 April 2012 As the DefenceReport staff prepare themselves for some serious investigative work on next week’s articles, the DefRep weekly recap planners aim to take a…
