Air National Guard F-16s Get Northrop’s Fifth-Gen AESA Radars
The F-16 fighters of Air National Guards are the first to receive Northrop Grummans AN/APG-83 SABR fifth-generation Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars. “The US Air Force has completed installation of Northrop Grumman Corporations AN/APG-83 SABR radars on Air National Guard F-16s at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to meet a US...
Raytheon Wins $250M for Additional SPY-6 Radars for US Navy Destroyers
Raytheon will build two additional shipsets of SPY-6 next generation, integrated air and missile defense radars for the US Navy's DDG-51 Flight III destroyers under a $250 million contract. "The company is now contracted to deliver a total of nine radar shipsets to DDG-51 Flight III destroyers," Raytheon said in a...
German Naval Troops Begin Training With NH90 Helicopter Simulator
The ground personnel of the German Navy have begun all-round training on the usage of NH90 Sea Lion helicopter with Rheinmetall having delivered the simulators in June 2019. "Thanks to advanced simulation technology from Rheinmetall, ground personnel of the German Navys new NH90 NTH Sea Lion helicopter are already able to...
Czech Republic to Replace Russian Radars with Israeli 3D Mobile Air Defense...
Czech Republic has entered into an agreement with Israel for the acquisition of eight units of 3D mobile air defense radars (MADR) for CZK 3.5 billion ($153
BAE to Develop Cyber Tools to Secure DARPA's Electronic Data
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has contracted BAE Systems to develop new cyber tools to help prevent vulnerabilities in electronic files that can lead to cyber attacks. Development of these tools will be part of DARPA's Safe Documents (SafeDocs) program, which aims to more effectively identify and...
Leidos Nets $6.52B to Sustain Pentagon's Information Network
Leidos has been awarded a contract whose value is pegged at $6.52 billion for Global Solutions Management – Operations (GSM-O) II, which provides support services for the operation, defense, and sustainment of the Department of Defense Information Network/Defense Information System Network
USMC To Get Saab Ground, Air defence Radar
Saab has won a contract valued $31.9 million to supply components and subsystems for US Marine Corps' Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), which has the US designation AN/TPS-80
Lockheed to Equip Spanish F-110 Frigates with Solid State Radars
Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with Spain's Navantia to equip five new F-110 multimission frigates with naval solid state S-band radar. In addition, Navantia's land-based test site (Centro de Integración de Sistemas en Tierra or CIST) will also be receiving the system
Saab to Perform Mid-life Upgrade of German Combat Vehicle Simulators
Germany has awarded Saab a contract worth $19 million (180 MSEK) for a mid-life upgrade programme of the Armys AGDUS combat vehicle simulators. The German Armys AGDUS BT 46 system will be upgraded to the latest generation technology
Raytheon Develops Dismounted Soldier Training Simulator
Raytheon unveiled its new Synthetic Training Environment Soldier Virtual Trainer (STE SVT) at I/ITSEC modeling, simulation and training event in Orlando, Florida, USA. The STE SVT simulator uses virtual reality to train squads of soldiers in multiple scenarios while using real and virtual weapons, the company said in a
Damen, VSTEP JV to Establish Marine Simulation Research Lab
Damen Shipyards Group and VSTEP have set up a joint venture to establish a laboratory to explore innovative new simulation solutions. The aim of the partnership is to develop software that will extend the capabilities of VSTEPs existing NAUTIS Maritime Simulation platform into engineering applications and so open up new research and development possibilities for Damens numerous R&D programmes
Saab to Maintain German Army's simulation training equipment
Saab has signed a contract valued 870 MSEK ($91 million) to support the German Army with the operation of their Combat Training Centre Gefechtsübungszentrum Heer (GÜZ). The scope of work consists of the management and maintenance of all live simulation training equipment, communication infrastructure and the exercise control centre
Estonia Receives Six HIMARS Units From Lockheed Martin
Newly Introduced North Korean Artillery Guns Alarm Ukrainians
Taiwanese Female Officer Sucked into Fighter Jet Engine, Dies
Germany Commissions Thyssenkrupp for Submarine Missile Development
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U