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Egypt has requested the purchase of National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems from the United States in a deal worth $4.67 billion. The US State Department approved the possible Foreign ...

One of the South African Navy’s three new multi-mission inshore patrol vessels (MMIPVs) – SAS King Sekhukhune I – has a new ...

An Armscor tender shows the SA Air Force (SAAF) is attempting to improve the availability of its radar systems – essential in ...

South Africans have been re-assured by the country’s Minister of Defence and Military Veterans it has no undeclared stockpiles of hazardous or warfare chemicals, nor any intent or practice placing it ...

Prison sentences totalling 27 years were handed to a pair of former Central African Republic (CAR) Anti-Balaka militia leaders by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week. Alfred Yekatom and ...

At the IDEF 2025 defence exhibition currently underway in Istanbul, Turkey’s Aselsan has signed its first local production ...

Airbus has marked two milestones in its South African operations by celebrating over 30 years of Airbus Helicopters in the country, and launching a new Customer Support Centre in Johannesburg. At its ...

The Department of Defence’s Defence Materiel Division has blamed an inefficient Armscor for poorly managing procurement as well as the naval dockyard, thus negatively impacting South African National ...

A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a ...

South Africa’s senior soldier, General Rudzani Maphwanya, reminds those under his command as long as they serve there is no ...

Makhado, the “fighter town” of the SA Air Force (SAAF), has new commanders for its signature unit – 2 Squadron – as well as 3 ...