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Boeing to Upgrade Entire Spanish Chinook Helicopter Fleet
2019-01-07 Read More...
Boeing will upgrade all 17 of Spain’s CH-47D Chinook helicopters to the F-model configuration, adding features such as the digital automatic flight control system, common avionics architecture system and advanced cargo handling to align that

Saab Completes First Flight Test of Second GlobalEye
2019-01-07 Read More...
Saab completed a successful first flight with the second GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft on 3 January.The second GlobalEye aircraft took off for the first time at 11.00 am on 3 January from Saab’s airfield in

Russia to Hold Over 4,000 War Games in 2019
2019-01-04 Read More...
The Russian Defense Ministry plans to hold more than 4,000 drills and roughly 8,500 practical combat training events throughout 2019, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on a conference last week, TASS news agency

U.S. Air Force to Test Laser Weapons by 2021
2019-01-04 Read More...
The U.S. Air Force is on track to test its first airborne laser weapons by 2021. Lasers attached to fighter jets, drones, or even cargo planes will attack targets on the ground and in the air at the speed of light, making the assaults nearly

Israel to Build Wings for New F-35 to Make it Invisible to Radar
2019-01-02 Read More...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has launched a production line for the outer wing set of the F-35 stealth fighter key component to make the advanced fighter jet invisible to radar, the company

Flight Tests of Russia’s Sarmat Heavy ICBM to Start in Spring
2019-01-02 Read More...
The flight development tests of Russia’s most advanced RS-28 Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) are expected to start from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in north Russia in the second quarter of 2019, a source in the domestic defense

Northrop Grumman to Deliver Joint Threat Emitters (JTE) to US Air Force
2018-12-31 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (MGC) has received a $450 million, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract award to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) systems to the United States Air

Russia Test-Fires Avangard Hypersonic Missile
2018-12-28 Read More...
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry, on instruction from Russian President Vladimir Putin, successfully test-fired the Avangard missile equipped with a hypersonic winged glider

Iran to Equip Helicopters with Fire-And-Forget Missiles
2018-12-28 Read More...
Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari announced plans to equip missiles used in helicopters with fire-and-forget guidance system, Fars News Agency (FNA)

Rostec Upgrades A-50 Early Warning Aircraft
2018-12-27 Read More...
The Vega Radio Engineering Corporation of the Ruselectronics holding company (part of Rostec) and the Beriev Aircraft Company have upgraded the A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft to the A-50U

Lockheed Martin to Upgrade PAC-3 Missiles for US, Allied Forces
2018-12-26 Read More...
The United States and allied military forces will upgrade their missile defense capabilities under a $1.8 billion contract for production and delivery of Lockheed Martin Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment

First M-345 Production Aircraft Performs Maiden Flight
2018-12-26 Read More...
The first M-345 HET (High Efficiency Trainer) production basic/advanced trainer aircraft successfully performed its maiden flight at Venegono Superiore airport (Varese, Italy) with pilots Quirino Bucci and Giacomo Iannelli

Russian Army Received Over 1,800 UAVs in Past 6 Years
2018-12-24 Read More...
- The Russian army has received over 1,800 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of different types over the last six years, the Russian Defense Ministry’s official newspaper “Krasnaya Zvezda” (Red Star)

Harris to Support US Army’s Wideband Satellite Sites
2018-12-24 Read More...
The U.S. Army has awarded Harris Corporation a nearly $218 million follow-on contract to support wideband satellite operations centers and management sites that deliver critical communications to warfighters around the

FLIR to Supply Surveillance Sensors for USAF’s UH-1N Replacement
2018-12-24 Read More...
FLIR Systems, Inc. announced it has been selected by Boeing Co to provide the FLIR Star SAFIRE 380-HDc EO/IR surveillance sensor for the USAF UH-1N replacement

ARQUUS Sponsors 2020 Year of ENSTA ParisTech Engineering School
2018-12-24 Read More...
Leader of land mobility, which is one of ENSTA ParisTech’s fields of expertise, ARQUUS officially becomes the sponsor of the 2020 year. The partnership was launched on December 19, 2018, on the School’s campus, in Palaiseau,

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