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Currently a freelance defence reporter, Elisabeth covers all topics related to military deals, international security, and procurement across the world with a focus on Europe and the Middle East and North Africa region. She is the European correspondent for DefenseNews as well as the Australian Defence Technology Review (DTR) magazine. In addition, she works closely with Shephard Media (UK), Al-Monitor (US), the WarZone (US) and European Defence Review (EDR) as a defence journalist. At 26, she has been published several times internationally in two languages including for the Globe and Mail. Canadian-born, she now is based permanently in Milan, Italy where the majority of her work has focused on unmanned systems. She completed her Master’s degree in Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St-Andrews in Scotland in 2019.
MILAN, Italy - Saildrone, a U.S. manufacturer of small and medium unmanned surface vessels (USVs), expects an increase in the number of seabed reconnaissance missions its platforms will carry out in 2023 across the Atlantic, Pacific and the Middle East, said CEO Richard Jenkins.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × The Halcon loitering munition features an artifiicial intelligence-driven target recognition system, and the UAE's Presidential Guard could be among its initial customers.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Ukraine's Radionix, which supplies upgrade packages for Russian-made fast jets and air defence missile systems, used the SAHA event in Istanbul to pursue partnership opportunities with Turkish industry.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Turkish company Titra displayed its Deli loitering munition for the first time at this week's SAHA exhibition in Istanbul, with service entry and serial production due before the end of 2022.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × After finding success with its Barkan autonomous uncrewed ground vehicle (UGV), Havelsan unveiled a new model, Kapgan, on 25 October, which is set to enter Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) service before 2024.
Despite the uproar on Capitol Hill and rare public criticism from the White House, the OPEC+ dispute between the Biden administration and Saudi Arabia has so far not inhibited regular military coordination with Riyadh, US officials say.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × The Iron Beam laser for air and missile defence made its US show debut at AUSA 2022 and it was also presented to representatives of 24 militaries at a recent conference in Israel.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Home> News> Air Warfare> African militaries show interest in Kargu but Japan may remain elusive Kargu manufacturer STM says it is in negotiations with 20 countries to sell the UAV.
MILAN, Italy - Greece is working to ramp up its domestic drone industry, which has lagged behind other European countries, with the development of the locally made Archytas aircraft. Officials presented the vertical-takeoff-and-landing drone for the first time at the International Exhibition of Thessaloniki earlier this month.
MILAN - A Greek defense startup is proposing a new autonomous surveillance tower, "Outpost," to improve the monitoring of remote islands, a capability considered crucial in territorial disputes with neighbor Turkey. Outpost uses artificial intelligence for geo-locating, classifying and tracking a wide-range of threats including persons, drones, vessels, aircraft, vehicles, and smoke piles, according to manufacturer Lambda Automata.
In a plea for assistance in June of this year, Ukraine's Deputy Head of Military Intelligence, Vadym Skibitsky, told reporters that the conflict with Russia "is now an artillery war that we are losing, [as] Ukraine has one artillery piece to 10-15 Russian artillery pieces and we have almost used up all of our ammunition."
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Home> News> Naval Warfare> Every picture tells a story as Egyptian Navy frigate obtains Italian EW upgrade Photos released by the USN in late August reveal that new electronic countermeasures and SATCOM equipment has been installed aboard the Egyptian frigate Al-Galala.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Home> News> Defence Notes> When the shoe fits: Greece looks to US and Israel for UAV and counter-drone solutions Greece aims to buy Israeli C-UAS equipment and it also plans to acquire the MQ-9B SeaGuardian - albeit for a hefty price.
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Located 40 minutes outside of the busy city center of Catania, on the Italian island of Sicily, Naval Air Station Sigonella has become arguably the most important facility for NATO's Alliance's Ground Surveillance force.
Demand for F-35s in Europe has sky-rocketed in recent months alongside a growing desire of customers to fast-track their delivery time and have the aircraft built on the continent - but with only one European assembly line, how can Lockheed Martin meet these expectations?
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Could the Su-35 still be the answer to Algerian future fighter requirements? Algerian media reported in early July 2022 that the country's air force has retired its final MiG-25s, ending a career of almost 50 years.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Home> News> Defence Notes> Tritium light source manufacturer absorbs ripple effects of Russia-Ukraine war A Swiss manufacturer of self-powered illumination technology for weapon sights and other military applications notes a fall in market demand after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in November and December, the first Arab nation to do so. It plans to welcome approximately 1.5 million fans, or nearly 50% of the country's population, which will be both a logistical and safety challenge.
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To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. After the 2021 fall of Kabul and the ongoing Ukraine war, what are the current capabilities and size of the former Afghan Air Force?
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. × Motivated by Russian aggression against Ukraine, more NATO allies and partner countries than expected joined the recent Neptune Shield 2022 vigilance activity.
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The Italian Navy's future LHD , which was launched in May 2019, is currently undergoing sea trials and is expected to be delivered in early 2023. Although classified as an LHD, Trieste will effectively be Italy's second aircraft carrier, featuring a ski jump that allows the ship to operate the Lockheed Martin F-35B.
Sarebbero circa una ventina i combattenti italiani presenti sul fronte di guerra. Divisi fra gli eserciti russo e quello ucraino. Chi sono? Perché combattono? La loro partecipazione è legale? Siamo Noi, programma pomeridiano di Tv2000 in diretta alle 15.15, ne parla con: Carmen Lasorella, giornalista; Elisabeth Gosselin Malo, analista dell'ISPI; Don Michal Wocial, salesiano che vive a Zhytomyr.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. Poland is looking for a stopgap multirole fighter solution as it aims to transfer its MiG-29s to Ukraine - but a proposed sale by Italy of Eurofighter Typhoons may not be the answer.
A US company is donating 100 reconnaissance drones to help Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia. The Quantix Recon drone can scan up to 400 acres of terrain and its makers say when used in a silent mode, it is immune to jamming technology and audibly undetectable at 360ft.
The day is 17 February. Police pours into downtown Ottawa, beginning a crackdown on the nearly three-week occupation of Canada's capital by hundreds of truckers part of the "Freedom Convoy." Several arrests are made, including of the two organizers o
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. As Serbia was already taking steps to expand and modernise its air force before the Ukraine war, has how the conflict altered its defence policy and which security partners is it now looking towards?
Since 2012, there has been speculation regarding Algeria's order of 42 Russian-made Mi-28NE attack helicopters and the timeline for the deliveries. How many has it received, and will recently imposed Western sanctions on Russian arms imports affect Algerian helicopter procurement planning?
The day is June 4, 2017. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain have just announced that they are halting all land, sea and air travel with Qatar alongside ejecting its diplomats and ordering Qatari citizens to leave the Gulf states within the next two weeks.
Ad Omnibus l'analista dell'ISPI Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo
On March 11, two weeks after the creation of Ukraine's International Legion, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would approve the deployment of up to 16,000 Middle Eastern fighters to support Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. Yet another new customer emerges for the F-35A, after Shephard learns that Canada will enter the final phase of talks to buy the aircraft as a replacement for the CF-18 Hornet.
According to the most recent data from SIPRI, Russia was the largest arms supplier to Africa from 2017 to 2021, accounting for 44% of the continent's defence equipment imports. The attraction around Russian arms has been their cheaper prices and ease of maintenance for African states.
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On March 11, the Pakistani Air Force confirmed that it has acquired two different types of Turkish drones, the TB2 and Akinci. Pakistan is the latest of 10 countries operating TB2s - an unmanned aircraft which has recently captured the world's attention in the Ukraine war, successfully striking Russian ground targets.
The US has revealed it will sell Boeing F-15 Advanced Eagle fighter jets to Egypt, in a move thought to follow Cairo cancelling a Su-35 order from Russia. 'In the case of Egypt, I think we have good news in that we are going to provide them with F-15s, which was a long, hard slog,' said Gen Kenneth F.
Only days after Russia's President Vladmir Putin stated his intention to rely on Syrian fighters to boost the country's manpower, Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he had travelled to Ukraine to show support and meet with Russian troops.His trip to the war zone will not have lasted long, as not even forty-eight hours later, Kadyrov was filmed at the Grozny airport back in Chechnya to pick up the Secretary of the Russian Security Council.
The apparently successful employment of Bayraktar TB2s by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against Russian ground targets - and the evident failure of the Russian Aerospace Forces or SOF to destroy the Turkish-made aircraft - builds on the significant successes the MALE UCAVs had against far less sophisticated militaries in Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Following Ukrainian President Zelensky's announcement of the creation of a new International Legion of Territorial Defense, essentially inviting foreigners to join the fight against Russia and promising them arms upon arrival, reactions have been mixed.
Leonardo has confirmed a long-speculated order from Qatar for six M-346 trainer aircraft, which will fly alongside the country's diverse fighter jet fleet - but will the small Gulf country have sufficient logistical abilities, training footprint and personnel to make effective use of it?
In witnessing Turkish military involvement over the past few years - including in Syria, Libya and in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - one thing was striking: the significant capabilities of its military drones. Speaking to this effect, was the fellow momentum of exports for these weapons systems that was subsequently generated.
Canada's decision to join the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics alongside the U.S., U.K. and Australia has raised concerns about the heavy burden this places on competing athletes. However, the greater price was laid upon them when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the decision in 2015 to host the Games in China, amid deep concerns about human rights abuses and athlete safety.
I Baltici e le legioni di combattenti stranieri - Radio3 Mondo - L'altra forza in campo, i foreign fighters vecchi e nuovi, dalla Siria alla Cecenia, ne parliamo con Lorenzo Trombetta, esperto di Siria e Libano, e con Elisabeth Gosselin Malo, esperta Ispi.
Since the US announcement that it was entering a security agreement with Australia, where Canberra gave up its 2016 contract for French submarines in favor of American vessels, parties from all sides have been busy pointing fingers at who they believ
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. The Canadian Department of National Defence has confirmed the programme schedule for its optionally armed UAS procurement plan, while also identifying where the aircraft will be based.
Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo is a freelance defence and security reporter who specializes in military affairs and procurement now based in Milan, Italy. Canada's Afghan resettlement plan to rescue those who supported the government and military may have started off with the right intentions, but it has been fraught with problems since its inception in late July.
Rheinmetall, un'azienda tedesca, leader del settore difesa, ha annunciato che la sua filiale RWM Italia, con sede a Ghedi in provincia di Brescia, ha firmato un accordo strategico con l'azienda israeliana Uvision, per la produzione su licenza e sviluppo di munizioni a guida remota (loitering ammunition) del tipo Hero.
Canada's capital, Ottawa, is not generally known for large-scale political protests or standoffs with police and bystanders. However, over the last ten days, the city among others in Canada, has been paralyzed by the 'Freedom Convoy', a group composed of hundreds of truckers and fringe activists which drove across Canada.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. There are indications that Iraq may order more surface naval vessels from Italian shipbuilders, despite the tortuous history of procurement between the two countries.
Different criteria seem to have been applied to exports of naval electronic countermeasures to Egypt as opposed to Qatar, Turkmenistan and the UAE. Naval electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment denied to Egyptian Navy FREMM frigates has been exported to Qatar, Turkmenistan and the UAE.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. A future conflict between Russia and Ukraine could see KUB used as a defensive loitering munition in a form of aerial minefield against the Bayraktar TB2.
Cargo aircrafts are being unloaded; track and wheeled armored vehicles equipped with electronic warfare systems are advancing towards the old capital of Kazakhstan; military personnel are giving out orders. It is January 9 th and the 2,500 peacekeepers sent by the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have just landed in Almaty, following the country's call for help to stop the unrest.
Morocco is set to procure an array of Israeli defence equipment under a recently signed MoU - what is Rabat hoping to achieve?
ELISABETH GOSSELIN-MALO INSIGHT #9 * MARCH 2021 As the technology and capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increase, the countermeasures to protect against them have struggled to keep pace.
As many were ringing the new year, India was busy preparing a show of force. The world witnessed as, for the first time ever, India's military deployed a swarm of 75 autonomous drones that destroyed simulated targets. As it did, the Indian military joined the growing list of armies capable of conducting swarming attacks using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
On January 31st, President Joe Biden designated Qatar a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) to the US, making it the third country of the Gulf region after Kuwait and Bahrain to receive the designation and one of only 18 countries globally. MNNA status bestows significant benefits and privileges on holders, including preferential access to advanced US military technology and defense equipment.
To make this website work, we log user data. By using Shephard's online services, you agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy. The Pakistan Air Force is expected to unveil Bayraktar TB2 UAVs in March 2022, as it seeks to gain an advantage over Indian air defences.
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By Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo, University of St-Andrew's Introduction The pinpoint killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, marked a significant evolution in the employment of armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Conducting a targeted killing via UAV strike outside of conventional armed conflict zones against a prominent state official during peacetime was an unprecedented act for the U.S.
In this episode of a chat in theSquare we are going to explore the definition and categories of unmanned weapons. Thanks to the expertise of Elisabeth Goesselin Malo it will be tackle how States, especially in Europe, are developing strategies and regulations trying to keep up with one of the latest and most radical revolutions in contemporary warfare.