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Seoul’s biennial Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (ADEX 2025) offered an extensive overview of the evolution of Korea’s defense sector as it enters a new era of warfare.Key defense contractors including Hanwha, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), LIG Nex1 and Hyundai Rotem showcased an expanded range of systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI), along with unmanned operations and space technologies.With 600 companies from 35 countries, this year’s exhibition was the largest since its launch in 1996, filling every hall at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, and attracting a record number of foreign delegations. The event emphasized the momentum behind what officials now…

The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has christened and launched the first 8,000t Victory-class Multi-Role Combat Vessel (MRCV), which it describes as a first-of-its-kind mothership optimised for uncrewed systems. Built by ST Engineering, the 150m-long, 21m-wide vessel is the largest warship ever constructed for the RSN, surpassing the Endurance-class landing ship tank in size. A total of six destroyer-sized vessels will replace the navy’s existing six missile corvettes that share the same namesakes — Victory, Valour, Vigilance, Valiant, Vigour and Vengeance. Lt Col Auyong Kok Phai, deputy director (MRCV project) at the RSN Shipbuilding Group,

The United States has repeatedly used live ammunition during training, but according to one American official more than seventy years have passed since the Marine Corps fired artillery over a section of Interstate 5 in California – and that is how it happened during the celebration of the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary on Saturday. The first shell fired during the demonstration flew over the interstate, one of the busiest roads in the United States, and at least one fragment fell onto a parked patrol car of the California Highway Patrol. The celebration at Camp Pendleton in California was attended by…

Servicemen of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the “Contract 18-24” program are taking part in tactical field exercises in an unknown location in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on May 1, 2025. Getty Images/GENYA SAVILOV/AFP The Ministry of Defense’s “Contract 18-24” program, which provides voluntary service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been expanded to all combat units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. On October 21, the Deputy Head of the Office of the President for Defense Issues and the former commander of the 93rd Brigade of the Ukrainian…

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There is considerable confusion in the air about the role of Air Force in Operation Sindoor. However, a close scrutiny reveals that it stems from the lack of proper understanding of the air p ower. To begin, the assertion that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was “fully ready and already airborne” waiting for the IAF lacks operational logic. Air forces do not achieve superiority through early airborne presence or “waiting in the air”; they do so through the intelligent orchestration of planning, timing, and mission effectiveness. Air campaigns are designed around objective achievement, escalation control, and strategic messaging — not…

Howmet Aerospace Inc. HWM and General Dynamics Corporation GD are two powerhouses operating at the heart of the aerospace and defense industry. Howmet is well-known for its highly engineered solutions for customers across the transportation and aerospace industries. Meanwhile, General Dynamics provides a broad portfolio of products and services across several industries, including aerospace and defense, marine, land combat vehicles, as well as weapons systems and munitions.Both companies have been enjoying significant growth opportunities in the aerospace and defense space on account of the improving air traffic trend and the expansionary U.S. budgetary policy in the past couple of years. But which…

The Royal Regiment of Scotland showcasing its capabilities as an infantry battalion of the British Army while using a UGV as a resupply vehicle as part of wider Exercise ‘Tarasiss’. (Crown Copyright) The British Army revealed to Janes on 20 October the two types of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and two types of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) tested by soldiers from 11 Brigade and 3 Scots Battlegroup during Exercise ‘Forest Guardian’ held in the third quarter of 2025. The following UASs and UGVs were tested by British troops alongside Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) allies during ‘Forest Guardian’: two Anduril Ghost…