February – earmarked as Armed Forces Day in South Africa – is just over five weeks away and a decision on venue is apparently ...

Roughly 21 000 children have been recruited as soldiers by government forces and armed groups across Africa in the past five ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga maintains the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) provides services ...

With the growing global interconnection of trade and communications networks, cyberthreats are evolving into a global crisis, ...

Egypt is looking to acquire Hellfire missiles and 70 mm guided rockets worth nearly $700 million. On 20 December the US State Department approved possible foreign military sales to Egypt of 2 183 ...

South Africa’s military aviation fraternity, from those currently in the SA Air Force (SAAF) to those who previously wore the blue uniform, is gearing up for anniversaries later this month (January).

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Denel is upgrading its Umkhonto surface-to-air missile (SAM) from the current Infra-Red (IR) Block II version to a more ...

South Africa’s ongoing border protection tasking – now in its 16th year – executed in the main by infantry units, shows how ...

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has published a report about the recent evolution of China’s ...

Ukraine has been scoring battlefield victories against Russia despite Russia having 10 times the GDP of the country it ...

The United States military has completed its withdrawal from Niger after 11 years of military cooperation with the west ...