Lockheed Martin's multi-purpose AGM 114R HELLFIRE II missile struck and destroyed a stationary tank target in its third proof-of-principle flight test, a ground-launch test configured to simulate launch from an unmanned aerial system (UAS).

Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC) General Manager Abdulrahman Jawahery has been elected member of the US National Safety Council (NSC) Board of Directors.

The European Union signed a 2.5 million euro ($3.2 million) agreement with Iraq to help Iraqi scientists dismantle, decommission and decontaminate nuclear facilities built under Saddam Hussein.

Eurocopter signed a cooperation agreement with China’s Tongji University that integrates this Shanghai-based educational institute into the company’s family of partner universities, with the goal of training future technicians and engineers in helicopter technology