Alenia Aermacchi, ATK Successfully Demos MC-27J Transport Aircraft
Alenia Aermacchi and its partner ATK announced on April 26 that a fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport aircraft completed its first flight. The demonstrator aircraft was modified...
Nexter Acquires Chemring's European Munitions Business For £138 Million
Nexter Systems has acquired Chemring Groups European munitions business, in a deal estimated £138 million. Chemring sold its Mecar ammunition operation in Belgium and the Simmel facilities in Italy to the...
General Dynamics Completes Design Review Of SCOUT Vehicle Variant
General Dynamics UK has successfully completed the Base Platform Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Protected Mobility Recce Support (PMRS) variant, as part of the SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) programme. The...
Cubic Wins $11 Million Combat Training Support Contract
Cubic Corporation has won a contract valued at more than $11 million to provide air combat training support to a Middle East customer at multiple sites. The contract period of...
High Quality Post-Sales Services Gives Rosoboronexport An Edge In The South-East Asian...
Russian arms export agency, Rosoboronexport has achieved sales worth $1 billion in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia among others over the last few years. This is in contrast to American and...
Information Superiority As a Force Multiplier
Information superiority in a digitized battlespace can be a force multiplier as it allows faster, secure communication between soldiers, commanders and various weapons and sensors, according to Thales which offered a rare insight into the...
Honeywell Appoints Pritam Bhavnani President, India and High Growth Regions
Honeywell Aerospace India today announced the two changes to its senior executive team in India. Pritam Bhavnani has been named President, India and High Growth Regions, according to an official statement
Harris Completes Testing Falcon III Manpack Radio With MUOS
Harris Corporation has successfully completed the next in a series of interoperability tests for the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio hosting the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform. MUOS is the next-generation US Department of...
US DoD, DARPA To Develop AI Autopilot To Reduce Air Flight Crew...
The US Defense Department along with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Tuesday said they are developing a method of autopilot that may allow the military to reduce air flight crews to a fraction...
Northrop Grumman To Develop Mission Computers For H-1 Helicopters
Northrop Grumman has won a contract from the US Navy to deliver FlightPro Gen III mission computers in support of AH-1Z and UH-1Y Marine Corps helicopters. Under the $10
Lockheed Martin To Develop Weapons Grade Fiber Laser For US Army Field...
Lockheed Martin has won a $25 million contract from US Army to design, build and test a 60-kilowatt electric laser to be integrated and tested in a truck-mounted weapon system demonstrator. The laser weapon is designed...
Sweden To Equip Fighter Jets With Cruise Missiles
The Swedish government is planning to equip fighter jets with cruise missiles, following the announcement made on a military spending hike linked to the Ukraine crisis. “In the future the ability to combat longer range targets...
One Month Since U.S., Israeli War Against Iran: Who Is Gaining?
One month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28 the conflict has expanded...
Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) have shown their mettle in recent conflicts such as in Ukraine despite being increasingly vulnerable to...
European Nations Prioritizing Europe-made IRIS-T & SAMP-T over American Patriot Air Defense Systems?
European nations looking to procure new air defense systems appear to be giving the much-vaunted American Patriot a miss in...
Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles