Defence

A Colt 1911, one of the company's most iconic guns. Image courtesy of Flickr - sadaton.

Gunmaker Colt files for bankruptcy

An Airbus A400M transport aircraft. Image courtesy of Airbus.

Airbus A400M crash due to software glitch

Australian submarines: do we really need them?

HMAS Hobart, the first ship in the Air Warfare Destroyer program. Image courtesy of the Australian Navy.

Australian air warfare destroyer HMAS Hobart launched

Airbus A380 wing manufacture

Airbus would “reconsider investment in UK” in face of Brexit

Boeing has delivered the first two of seven CH-47F Chinooks to the Australian Army at a ceremony in Queensland. The remaining aircraft will be delivered throughout 2015 - image courtesy of Boeing.

Australia receives new Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopter

The Portable Command Centre concept uses commercial technology to create a semi-virtual environment that can be transported in a briefcase and set up anywhere from within a tent to an office to tackle emergency scenarios such as an outbreak of fire or an act of terrorism - image courtesy of BAE Systems.

Augmented reality to transform battlefield ops

BAE applies F1 technology to armoured vehicles in world first

John Rishton, CEO, Rolls-Royce.

Warren East to succeed John Rishton as Rolls-Royce CEO

The Thales Halcyon Unmanned Surface Vehicle used for underwater mine detection and neutralisatoin

Thales to develop robot to neutralise underwater IEDs

The Kalashnikov rifle - a symbol of Russian arms exports. Image courtesy of Kalashnikov Group

Global arms industry continues to boom