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Rosoboronexport Offers Mobile Radar to Detect Stealth Aircraft
2020-12-04 Read More...
Rosoboronexport (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has started promoting the P-18-2 Prima high-mobility 2D surveillance and acquisition radar, developed and manufactured by PJSC NITEL and PJSC NPO Almaz, to the foreign

Rolls-Royce Acquires Leading Supplier of Ship Control Systems Servowatch
2020-12-04 Read More...
Rolls-Royce has acquired Servowatch Systems, a UK-based international supplier of integrated marine automation solutions for navies, commercial vessels and large yachts. Representatives of Rolls-Royce's Power Systems business unit and the company’s

Oshkosh Defense Receives New JLTV Order from US Army
2020-12-03 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, LLC, an Oshkosh Corporation company, announced that the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Detroit Arsenal has placed an order for 2,738 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV), 1,001 companion trailers, and associated

GA-ASI Delivers Final MQ-9A Block 5 RPA to Spain
2020-12-03 Read More...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) delivered the final two MQ-9A Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) and a Ground Control Station (GCS) to the Spanish Air Force (SpAF) on November 23, 2020, completing a Foreign Military Sales

Boeing Producing T-7A Weapons Systems, Operational Flight Trainers
2020-12-03 Read More...
The U.S. Air Force is one step closer to receiving its next-generation trainer as Boeing started producing the T-7A Red Hawk’s “real-as-it-gets” ground-based training system

NATO Cyber Security Centre to Acquire New Cyber Defence Systems
2020-12-02 Read More...
The NATO Communications and Information Agency plans to purchase cyber defence systems to replace systems reaching their end of life at the NATO Cyber Security

Cubic’s SPEAR Demos Operational Capabilities at Checkered Flag 21-1 Exercise
2020-12-02 Read More...
Cubic Corporation announced its Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions (CMPS) business division’s Simplified, Planning, Execution, Analysis, Reconstruction (SPEAR) software suite was successfully operational at the Checkered Flag 21-1 exercise on

Egypt, UAE, France, Greece, Cyprus Start MEDUSA 2020 Exercise
2020-12-01 Read More...
The multinational aeronautical training exercise MEDUSA 2020 began on Monday 30 November, running until 06 December 2020, CyprusMail

SCORPION: GRIFFON Command Post is Qualified
2020-11-27 Read More...
On 13 November 2020, the French Delegation for Armaments (DGA) qualified the command postvehicle (EPC) variant of the GRIFFON vehicle. At the same time, the first examples are beingsubmitted for acceptance by the DGA's quality department at the

MBDA Completes Qualification Firing Trials of Sea Venom/ANL Missile
2020-11-27 Read More...
The Sea Venom/ANL anti-ship missile has completed its qualification firings trials, with a successful final firing at the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) test site at Ile du Levant on 17

Lockheed Martin Completes Acquisition of i3 Hypersonics Portfolio
2020-11-27 Read More...
Lockheed Martin has closed its acquisition of the Hypersonics portfolio of Integration Innovation Inc. (i3), a software and systems engineering company based in Huntsville,

Egyptian, Russian Navies Conclude First Joint Drills in Black Sea
2020-11-26 Read More...
A group of Egyptian warships has left the port of Novorossiysk after completing the Friendship Bridge-2020 joint drills with the Russian Navy, the Black Sea Fleet’s press office reported on

GA-ASI Awarded Smart Sensor Contract
2020-11-26 Read More...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a $93.3 million contract from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) to enhance the autonomous sensing capabilities of unmanned

L3Harris to Help US DoD Develop Artificial Intelligence Systems
2020-11-26 Read More...
L3Harris Technologies will help the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) develop artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) systems to help reduce the amount of time it takes to decipher usable intelligence from increasing amounts of data

MBDA to Contribute to the Foundation of a European Source of Field Programmable Gate Arrays
2020-11-25 Read More...
Early in November, the European Defence Agency (EDA) announced the implementation of EXCEED, the last of the three defence research projects selected under the 2018 call for proposals for the EU Preparatory Action on Defence Research

Falcon 2000 Albatros for the French Navy
2020-11-23 Read More...
During a visit to the Dassault Aviation plant in Seclin, innorthern France, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, announcedthe upcoming notification of the contract for the “Albatros” Maritime Surveillance andIntervention Aircraft

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