ATR-42 Crash Leaves Nigerian Air Force With Reduced ISR Capacity
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has lost one of its two ATR 42-500 maritime patrol aircraft following the crash of...
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First Moroccan F-16 Block 72 Flies Ahead of Deliveries
Lockheed Martin has announced that the first F-16 Block 72 Fighting Falcon for the Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) has...
Exercise Vuk’uhlome V Underway at Lohathla Training Centre
The South African Army is putting its training to the test in the arid Northern Cape, where Exercise Vuk'uhlome V...
Morocco’s Aerodrive Wins First Domestic Loitering Munition Deal
According to Unmanned Africa, Morocco has awarded its first confirmed domestic contract for loitering munitions, with Rabat-area manufacturer Aerodrive Engineering...
Nigeria’s Plan to Buy Saudi KV-107 Helicopters Appears to End
The twelve Kawasaki KV-107 helicopters that Nigeria was reported in January to be acquiring from Saudi Arabia are back on...
Somalia Graduates Its Largest Army Class Since 1991
The Somali National Army graduated roughly 3,000 soldiers at the Xananbuure training camp in Galgaduud on 16 August 2026, the...
Russia Offers ‘Bizon’ Counter-Drone System to Egypt After Damietta Strike
Russia has offered its "Bizon" counter-drone system to Egypt, an approach that comes weeks after Cairo confirmed what it described...
ShadowfaxUAS Launches SF45 VTOL Drone for Export Market
ShadowfaxUAS has launched the SF45, the first and largest of three new-generation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from the South African...
ASELSAN Seeks Local Manufacturing Partner in Nigeria, CEO Says
Turkish defence giant ASELSAN is actively searching for a local manufacturing partner in Nigeria and has already sent a team...
Inside ITPS Canada’s Growing Footprint Across Africa
In January 2026, in the highlands south of Addis Ababa, an aerobatic display marking the 90th anniversary of the Ethiopian...
L3Harris Begins Multi-Year Overhaul of Morocco’s C-130 Fleet
The first aircraft is already in Texas. A Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) C-130H Hercules sits inside L3Harris Technologies' maintenance...
Mahamat Déby Pushes for Local Production of Arms in Chad
President Mahamat Idriss Déby has created a new state-owned company tasked with building Chad's first domestic arms industry, a move...
BAMEX 2026: Turning Mali Into Sahel’s Defence Hub says Chairman
When the Bamako International Defence and Security Exhibition (BAMEX) opens its doors from 9 to 13 November 2026, it will...
EDGE Delivers HT-100 Naval UAVs to Angola for Corvette Programme
The United Arab Emirates' EDGE Group has delivered six ANAVIA HT-100 NAVAL unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Angolan Navy,...
Havelsan and Egypt’s AOI Sign Sales Agreement for Hamza-1 UAV
Turkish defence company Havelsan and Egypt's Arab Organisation for Industrialisation (AOI) signed a sales agreement for the Hamza-1 unmanned aerial...
El Alamein 2026: China Sends Four Overseas Airshow Debuts to Egypt
China's People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) brought an unusually large and diverse contingent to the El Alamein International Airshow,...
U.S. Military Aircraft Arrive for Egypt’s El Alamein Airshow 2026
The second edition of Egypt's flagship aerospace event opens at El Alamein International Airport on 8 September 2026, following a...
Burkina Faso Tests New Chinese Air Defence System, But Which One?
Burkina Faso's presidency released video footage on 1 September 2026 showing the National Armed Forces (FAN, Forces Armées Nationales) test-firing...
Night Combat in the Bush: Gen-3 NVGs vs Non-state actors
A soldier wearing a Generation 3 (Gen-3) night vision monocular can pick out a human silhouette against Sahelian scrubland at...
Grob Trains Ivorian Pilots Ahead of Chinese Hongdu K-8 Karakorum Deliveries
Small teams of Ivorian Air Force personnel have been quietly working through their paces at a French airbase in Charente-Maritime,...
EDGE Group, Nigeria eyes $300m defence deal
Nigeria is on the verge of signing one of the largest single bilateral defence contracts in its recent history. The...
Orion Drone Sighted Over Bamako as Russia’s Air War in Mali Deepens
A Russian-made Kronshtadt Orion drone, also known by its developmental name Inokhodets, was reportedly seen flying over Bamako today, with...
France and Algeria Move to Repair Relations After Two Years of Diplomatic Tension
A meeting between French Armed Forces Minister Alice Rufo and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune marked the most concrete step yet...
South Africa’s SVI Engineering Reveals New Six-Wheeled Tactical Vehicle
The MAX Recon is a militarized, heavily armoured derivative of the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series, designed for reconnaissance, fire...
Fire, Steel and Code: EFES-2026 and the Maturity of Turkey’s Integrated Defence Industrial Model
From swarm drone attacks on an Aegean mountainside to AI-driven unmanned ground vehicles and a naval combat management ecosystem that...