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CAE to Upgrade NATO’s E-3A AWACS Training Devices
2020-02-03 Read More...
CAE announced it has signed a contract amendment with the NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Program Management Agency (NAPMA) to perform avionics updates on the E-3A flight deck simulator and E-3A flight training device located at NATO

Airbus C295 Performs Wet Contacts as a Tanker
2020-02-03 Read More...
The Airbus C295 tactical airlifter has successfully achieved its first wet contacts during an air-to-air (AAR) tanker flight test campaign. First dry contacts of this flight test took place in December 2019 and were achieved using a closed ramp

Rosoboronexport Wins First Export Order for Mi-38T Helicopter
2020-01-31 Read More...
Rosoboronexport JSC (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has signed the first export contract to supply a foreign customer with the Mi-38T medium-range multi-purpose helicopters manufactured by the Kazan Helicopter Plant, a subsidiary of Rostec’s

Leonardo to Acquire Swiss Helicopter Company Kopter
2020-01-31 Read More...
Leonardo has signed a contract with Lynwood (Schweiz) AG to acquire 100% of Kopter Group AG (Kopter). This move allows Leonardo to further strengthen its worldwide leadership and position in the rotorcraft sector; leveraging

SIPRI Ranks China Second Biggest Arms Producer
2020-01-30 Read More...
Newly available data suggests that China is the world’s second-biggest arms producer, behind the United States and ahead of Russia, a leading conflict and armaments think-tank

Raytheon Awarded U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force Contracts
2020-01-30 Read More...
Raytheon Company was awarded a $403 million System Demonstration Test Articles (SDTA) contract with the U.S. Navy for Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band. The SDTA pods will be delivered to the fleet once developmental and operational testing

Boeing, Embraer Hail Brazilian Approval for their Partnership
2020-01-30 Read More...
Boeing and Embraer welcomed the unconditional approval of their strategic partnership by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)’s General-Superintendence (SG) in Brazil. The decision will become final within the next 15 days

Fincantieri Launches 10th FREMM Frigate “Emilio Bianchi”
2020-01-29 Read More...
The launching ceremony of the “Emilio Bianchi” frigate, the tenth and last FREMM vessel – Multi Mission European Frigates, took place Saturday at the integrated shipyard of Riva Trigoso (Genoa) in the presence of the Italian Minister of

Telephonics Demos its MOSAIC AESA Radar on US Navy MH-60S Seahawk
2020-01-29 Read More...
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, announced it has successfully demonstrated its MOSAIC® Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar system aboard a U.S. Navy MH-60S

Lockheed Martin Elects Former Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff to Board of Directors
2020-01-28 Read More...
Lockheed Martin announced its Board of Directors has elected former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. (photo) to the Board, effective Feb. 10,

Pakistan Tests Ghaznavi Ballistic Missile
2020-01-27 Read More...
Pakistan’s army on Thursday said it had successfully tested a ballistic missile Ghaznavi amid heightened tensions with arch-rival India, Anadolu Agency

GA-ASI Begins MDO Demonstrations Using Gray Eagle ER
2020-01-27 Read More...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) on November 19, 2019 completed the first in a series of internally-funded Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) demonstrations using a company-owned Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft

Bell Boeing CMV-22B Osprey Completes First Flight
2020-01-24 Read More...
The first CMV-22B Osprey, built by Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, and Boeing, completed first flight operations at Bell’s Amarillo Assembly

Fincantieri Enters the Green Cutting-Edge Project “ITER”
2020-01-24 Read More...
Fincantieri has been awarded a prestigious order, worth almost 100 million Euros, for a number of high-profile systems, components, installations as part of the ITER Project, a multinational collaboration aimed at building an experimental hydrogen

Ka-52 Attack Helicopter Gets Broadband Communications Suite
2020-01-24 Read More...
Russia’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter is the world’s sole gunship that has received a broadband communications suite, which provides for high-speed data transmission, CEO of RTI Group Pavel Laptayev told TASS news agency on

Leonardo to Supply RAT 31 DL/M Radar to Indonesian Air Force
2020-01-23 Read More...
Leonardo has signed a contract with Indonesian company PT Len Industri (Persero) to provide a RAT 31 DL/M radar system for the Indonesian Air Force (IAF). The IAF will operate the radar to strengthen the air defense system of the Republic of

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