Defence Minister Christopher Musa says every Nigerian should undergo military training to understand the hunger, fatigue and sacrifice soldiers endure.

Rheinmetall Denel Munition will start LongClaw glide bomb production in South Africa in late 2027, aiming the 7.5 kg GPS-guided...

Ethiopia's Defence University has opened a UAE-backed Advanced Central Laboratory for AI, cybersecurity, prototyping and defence research in Addis Ababa.

Denel showed its new Skyler unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in public for the first time at the Africa Aerospace and...

On the first day of the Africa International Defence Exhibition (AFRIDEX) 2026 in Lagos, a Nigerian company showed a type...

South Africa's helicopter fleet has spent years waiting for spare parts, funding, and workshop capacity. At the Africa Aerospace and...

According to Unmanned Africa, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is planning to add more than the 12 Turkish Aksungur combat...

A convoy of light armoured vehicles rolled through Khartoum on 3 August 2026, and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) had...

I have watched North African airpower arguments recycle the same claim for two years. Algeria, we are told, has entered...

Ethiopia's ambassador to Pakistan, Dr Oumer H. Oba, has visited the headquarters of Global Industrial and Defence Solutions (GIDS) in...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has lost one of its two ATR 42-500 maritime patrol aircraft following the crash of...

Lockheed Martin has announced that the first F-16 Block 72 Fighting Falcon for the Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) has...

The South African Army is putting its training to the test in the arid Northern Cape, where Exercise Vuk'uhlome V...

According to Unmanned Africa, Morocco has awarded its first confirmed domestic contract for loitering munitions, with Rabat-area manufacturer Aerodrive Engineering...

The twelve Kawasaki KV-107 helicopters that Nigeria was reported in January to be acquiring from Saudi Arabia are back on...

The Somali National Army graduated roughly 3,000 soldiers at the Xananbuure training camp in Galgaduud on 16 August 2026, the...

Russia has offered its "Bizon" counter-drone system to Egypt, an approach that comes weeks after Cairo confirmed what it described...

ShadowfaxUAS has launched the SF45, the first and largest of three new-generation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from the South African...

Turkish defence giant ASELSAN is actively searching for a local manufacturing partner in Nigeria and has already sent a team...

In January 2026, in the highlands south of Addis Ababa, an aerobatic display marking the 90th anniversary of the Ethiopian...

The first aircraft is already in Texas. A Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) C-130H Hercules sits inside L3Harris Technologies' maintenance...

President Mahamat Idriss Déby has created a new state-owned company tasked with building Chad's first domestic arms industry, a move...

When the Bamako International Defence and Security Exhibition (BAMEX) opens its doors from 9 to 13 November 2026, it will...

The United Arab Emirates' EDGE Group has delivered six ANAVIA HT-100 NAVAL unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Angolan Navy,...

Turkish defence company Havelsan and Egypt's Arab Organisation for Industrialisation (AOI) signed a sales agreement for the Hamza-1 unmanned aerial...