Technology originally developed for military and security use, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, could be used as another weapon in the fight against rhino poaching, according to Saab.

The US Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center has purchased the prototype CN235 aircraft and plans to transform it into an HC-144A maintenance training unit. The HC-144A is based on the Airbus Military CN235 tactical airlifter. More than 230 CN235s are in service...

The US Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center has purchased the prototype CN235 aircraft and plans to transform it into an HC-144A maintenance training unit. The HC-144A is based on the Airbus Military CN235 tactical airlifter. More than 230 CN235s are in service...

Following the interception of suspected pirates off Somalia, the commander of the European Union Naval Force has warned that Somali pirates are still determined to get out to sea and, if presented with an easy target, will attack.

Pirates have released five Polish and Russian crew members they kidnapped from a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria last month, the vessel's management company said.

Britain will help boost radio communications on the Somali coast as part of efforts to combat rampant piracy along global shipping routes near the East African country, Prime Minister David Cameron said.

The Airbus Military A400M Grizzly is Europe's most important airlifter project and after years of delays is scheduled to enter service in mid-2013 with the French and Turkish Air Forces. Click here to access the gallery.

The US Air Force recently flew its 200th aerial refuelling sortie in support of French fighter aircraft operating over Mali.

Nigeria sent combat jets in support of troops fighting increasingly powerful Islamist insurgents in its northeast on Thursday, the second day of a military offensive that has divided opinion over how best to tackle the rebellion.

The last 15 months of border protection operations by the SA Army has seen over 12 400 illegal immigrants apprehended by soldiers, mainly along South Africa’s borders with Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

The hard work and onerous hours put in by Roelf Meyer’s Defence Review Committee in meeting the tight deadline set by previous Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu appear to have become entangled in Parliament’s bureaucracy.

Charges against 72 of the soldiers who illegally marched to the Union Buildings in 2009 have been dropped due to insufficient evidence, while 225 underwent a pre-trial process that could lead to their conviction.

The South African Police Service yesterday raided the offices of Smit Amandla Marine over alleged irregularities in the awarding of a tender to manage the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) patrol vessels.

The three upgraded Warrior-class strike craft that were converted into offshore patrol vessels have almost completed sea trials prior to acceptance by the South African Navy, with trials due for completion by the end of the month.

Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has visited the South African Navy’s headquarters for the first time since taking office in June last year.

Fighting has broken out in northern Mali between Tuareg separatists and local Arab-led gunmen, only days after the African country won a $4.2 billion aid pledge to help it recover from a conflict with Islamists affiliated to al Qaeda.

Gunmen stormed a police station and a bank in a town in Nigeria's northwest, beyond a region covered by a military crackdown on a Islamist insurgency, a sign the offensive could provoke violence by smaller militant cells across the north.

Kenya's deputy president, William Ruto, promised the International Criminal Court he and the president would cooperate despite calling their charges over election violence the result of a "conspiracy of lies".

Miners at South Africa's Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) reported for work on Friday, a company spokeswoman said, despite earlier calls for a strike by some union leaders.

A man was killed in an overnight attack on police in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi and their station was later set on fire in a possible act of revenge for the killing, police sources said.

Kenyan police fired teargas and water cannon outside parliament to disperse about 200 people demonstrating against lawmakers' demands for a salary 130 times the legal minimum wage.

3D printing is once again hitting the headlines with the latest creation of a company called Defense Distributed: an almost fully printable plastic gun, humbly named the Liberator.

Megaray, the Johannesburg company which designs and markets long range searchlights systems, is changing the way lighting systems are used in the international private and government defence and security sectors and is selling hundreds of units to global customers....

Antonov’s An-70 airlifter has passed Ukrainian Ministry of Defence structural tests, the company has announced, as the programme slowly moves forward to production next year.

The U.N. General Assembly is set to vote on a draft resolution that condemns Syrian authorities and accepts the opposition Syrian National Coalition as party to a potential political transition.

Qatar, which has taken a lead in arming the Syrian opposition, is coordinating with the CIA and has tightened control of the arms flow to keep weapons out of the hands of al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters, according to rebels and officials familiar with the operation....

If anyone saw last week's U.S.-Russian agreement to convene a peace conference on Syria as a potential breakthrough, Western leaders have been going out of their way to disabuse them.

Boeing Co said that it lost five orders for its 747 jumbo jet worth about $1.8 billion at list prices and gained one order for its 777 wide-body plane in the latest week.

Qatar Airways is in talks with Airbus to buy up to 15 of the European planemaker's A330 passenger jets, a deal potentially worth $3.6 billion at list prices, citing production delays to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

The acting CEO of South African Airways, Nico Bezuidenhout, sees profitability as being “on the horizon” for the troubled national carrier, with business as usual until the airline’s turnaround strategy is approved.

The Israelis and Palestinians are serious about pursuing peace, United States Secretary of State John Kerry said.

April was Iraq's bloodiest month for almost five years, with 712 people killed in bomb attacks and other violence, the United Nations Iraq mission said.

Arab states appeared to soften their 2002 peace plan when a top Qatari official said Israel and the Palestinians could trade land rather than conform exactly to their 1967 borders.