Navy leads as Army Technology lists the top five terms tweeted on military & security in May 2020, based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform. The top tweeted terms are the trending industry discussions happening on Twitter by key individuals (influencers) as tracked by the platform. 1. Navy – 370 mentions The US Navy returning …

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Hypersonic weapons and aircraft epitomise a 21st-century breakthrough that will transform science fiction to science fact. In fact, hypersonic technology has a long history, stretching back more than half a century. Similar to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), interest and perceived viability has waxed and waned over the years, but the resurgence of great power competition …

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The four speeds of flight are called the regimes of flight. The regimes of flight are subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic. These speeds are referred to by Mach numbers. The Mach number is the ratio of the speed of the platform to the speed of sound. Flight that is faster than Mach 1 is supersonic. …

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COVID-19 is creating substantial uncertainty around the Russian defense budget, with early indications suggesting a severe economic downturn caused by the coronavirus. Budgetary predictions frequently follow GDP projections, currently revised to include the impact of COVID-19.

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China is on the road to recovery after being severely affected as the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak. Despite a GDP contraction during the first quarter of 2020, the economic pressure from mitigating the effects of COVID-19 has not caused defense budget cuts this year.

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There is ongoing uncertainty regarding the eventual duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a leaked Department of Defense memo on 19 May indicating that the crisis was anticipated to persist until at least Summer 2021. Harry Boneham, Associate Analyst at GlobalData, comments, ‘despite this ambiguous, potentially lengthy timeframe, it would appear that the Department of …

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With the commander of the Army Medical Research and Development Command telling reporters that the Army expects to have a vaccine by the end of the year, and human testing to commence late summer, the focus is once more on the role of the defence base in stabilising the current crisis. With defence having formed …

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India Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, highlighted, as with the rest of the senior cabinet, the importance of self-sufficiency, and the need to indigenise further. Singh also mentioned that the 8,000 odd micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that supplied 20% of defence production of government organisations had suffered during the lockdown as the only buyer …

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In May 2020, due to the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan fell into recession for the first time since 2015. The Japanese economy shrank by an annual rate of 3.4% in the first three months of 2020. There has been widespread discussion regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic of global defense spending.

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India has unveiled its plan to restart economic activity post-COVID-19 with a series of announcements by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. and is using this as an opportunity to reform different sectors and improve the ease of doing business.

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