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GA-ASI Participates in U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem
2021-04-30 Read More...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) participated in U.S. Pacific Fleet’s (PACFLT) Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem ‘21 (UxS IBP 21), April 21-26, 2021. The UxS IBP 21 integrated manned and unmanned capabilities

EDA Took Part in NATO’s ‘Locked Shields’ Cyber Defence Exercise
2021-04-28 Read More...
EDA participated in the Exercise ‘Locked Shields 2021’, the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defence exercise organised from 13-16 April by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

Saab Reports Continued Order, Sales Growth for 1Q2021
2021-04-28 Read More...
Saab reported continued good order and sales growth for the first quarter of 2021. On this occasion, Saab’s President and CEO Micael Johansson (photo) made the following

GA-ASI Further Expands MQ-9 Mission Capability
2021-04-26 Read More...
The U.S. Air Force, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and L3Harris Technologies have collaborated to further expand the mission capabilities of the U.S. Air Force’s versatile MQ-9 Reaper® Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Curtiss-Wright’s PacStar® Selected by Viasat for Enhancing Battlefield Network Equipment
2021-04-26 Read More...
Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division announced that its PacStar® business, a leading developer and supplier of advanced communications solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), has been awarded a contract by

Rheinmetall, Northrop Grumman to Cooperate on Precision-Guided Enhanced Range Artillery Ammunition
2021-04-23 Read More...
Rheinmetall and Northrop Grumman have formalized an agreement to cooperate in the field of precision-guided enhanced range artillery

BAE Systems to Support International F-16 Fighter Fleet
2021-04-22 Read More...
BAE Systems has received an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force with a value of up to $600 million to supply the international fleet of F-16 aircraft with support

MBDA’s Sea Ceptor Ordered for Canadian Surface Combatant
2021-04-21 Read More...
MBDA has been awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin Canada to equip the Royal Canadian Navy’s new Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) with the Sea Ceptor air defense weapon

Curtiss-Wright’s Top Secret Data-at-Rest (DAR) Storage Solution Wins Re-Certification
2021-04-21 Read More...
Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division, a trusted leading supplier of rugged data storage and protection solutions, announced that its DTS1, the embedded industry’s first commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DAR storage solution

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Division Opens Certification Center in Montreal
2021-04-19 Read More...
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division announced the opening of a dedicated Hexagon certification center in Montreal, Canada, in cooperation with its strategic partner Amrikart

Bell Hosts Bahrain Delegation to Mark Production of AH-1Z Viper Attack Helicopters
2021-04-16 Read More...
Bell hosted a delegation from the Kingdom of Bahrain to mark the start of production of AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters built as part of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)

L3Harris, American Rheinmetall Vehicles to Pursue US Army’s New Fighting Vehicle
2021-04-16 Read More...
L3Harris Technologies and American Rheinmetall Vehicles have signed a teaming agreement to jointly develop the U.S. Army’s new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), which will replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting

Boeing Selects Leonardo’s Airborne Software-Defined Radio to Equip NATO’s AWACS Fleet
2021-04-16 Read More...
Leonardo has been contracted by Boeing to provide its new software-defined radio, the ‘SWave® Airborne SDR SRT-800’ for NATO’s fleet of E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. One of the few military assets that is owned and

New Tactical ISR Satellites for Global, Persistent Support of Warfighters
2021-04-15 Read More...
Lockheed Martin is addressing the accelerating demand for space-enabled warfighting capabilities with a new line of rapid, integrated and affordable tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)

Airbus’ VSR700 Achieves First Step in Flight Envelope Opening
2021-04-15 Read More...
A few weeks ago, the VSR700 demonstrator achieved a test flight that pushed its speed limit to 60kts (more than 110km/h), entirely opening its flight envelope at low speed. At the end of the test, the demonstrator had accumulated more than 10 flight

Dassault Aviation Appoints Two New Directors
2021-04-14 Read More...
The Board of Directors of Dassault Aviation met in Saint-Cloud, France Monday. It paid a tribute to Mr. Olivier Dassault, following his death shortly after the Board of Directors held on March 4,

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