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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Africa is now the continent most affected by terrorism. Each day, an average of eight terror attacks results in 44 deaths. In ...

In an extraordinary joint press briefing at the police headquarters in Maseru on Friday, the heads of the Lesotho Defence ...

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 ...