Dylan Malyasov

Dylan Malyasov is the Editor-in-Chief of The Defence Blog, overseeing the publication’s editorial standards and ethical principles. He sets the outlet’s editorial policy, ensures compliance with rigorous journalistic standards, and directs the strategic development of the newsroom. As the founder and public face of Defence Blog, Dylan leads the platform with a commitment to independent, fact-based reporting.read more...

Russian forces in Syria fired on Israeli military aircraft

Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek improved operational coordination with Moscow, Israel's top-selling newspaper said on Friday. The unsourced report in Yedioth Ahronoth gave...

Renk France is offering a powerpack upgrade for the Malaysian Army’s PT-91 main battle tank

Renk France is offering a powerpack upgrade for the Malaysian Army’s PT-91 main battle tank at the Defence Services Asia exhibition. The vehicle transmission manufacturing company is displaying its Powerpack 350S that uses ESM350 automatic transmission, and is...

Exclusive Interview : French armament expert Edmond Huet discusses the issues to arm Ukraine

French armament expert Edmond Huet re-armament of Ukraine army to guarantee regional stability. Q. You have been introduced in many interviews by the medias of Ukraine, France , Switzerland and others for the past two years as an armament expert who...

Malaysian Army to buy 44 GK-M1 Rapid Rover 4×4 vehicles

According to the Malaysian company Weststar Defence there are orders from the Royal Malaysian Navy and Royal Malaysian Air Force for 44 GK-M1 Rapid Rover 4x4 vehicle each following an official signing ceremony on 19 May at...

Deftech of Malaysia unveils new Lipanbara 4×4 HMAV High Mobility Armoured Vehicle at DSA 2016

The latest state of the art 4x4 High Mobility Armoured Vehicle (HMAV) has been named as "Lipanbara", after the lethal and poisonous centipede found in the Malaysian jungles. This armoured vehicle will be primarily used in hostile...

Russia confirms plans to buy 100 main battle tanks based on the «Armata» Universal Combat Platform

Russian Ministry of Defense confirms plans to buy  100  main battle tank based on the «Armata» Universal Combat Platform. The Russian Ministry of Defense has signed a contract to acquire the "Uralvagonzavod" 100 new T-14 "Armata" tanks , said Russian...

Russian Ministry of Defense shows interest about the BTR-87 armoured personnel carriers

Russian Ministry of Defense shows interest about the BTR-87 armoured personnel carriers, said General Director of "Military-Industrial Company" (VPK)  Alexander Krasovitsky. The BTR-87 is an amphibious wheeled armored personnel carrier being developed for the potential foreign customers.  In a departure with the...

Washington vetoes on sale of Israeli-made unmanned air vehicles to Russia

Washington vetoes on sale   of Israeli-made unmanned air vehicles to Russia. The latter also encompasses locally assembly agreements. Moscow has previously purchased 10 «Searcher 2» and 30 «BirdEye-450» UAVs from Israel Aerospace Industries. Russia has adopted the IAI...