Rostec Offers Communication Systems Upgrade For India’s Su-30MKI Fighters
Russias United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC) has offered to upgrade the communications systems modules of the Su-30MKI fighters. A press release from Rostec, the parent company of UIMC said that presentations will be made to the Indian air force and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) during the Aero India show in Bangalore...
Thales To Supply Flight Management System Software For US Army’s Black Hawk...
Northrop Grumman has selected Thales to supply its state of the art Flight Management System software, i-FMS200, to be embedded in the avionics mission equipment package to upgrade the US Armys UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters. The upgraded version of the Black Hawk helicopter will be known as UH-60V
Lockheed Martin Wins $71 Million Acoustic Processing Contract
Lockheed Martin has won a $71 million worth Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) long lead material contract for four Virginia Construction boats in support of Acoustic Rapid Technical Insertion (TI)16, the company said in a statement Tuesday. A-RCI TI16 program concept is that vast improvements in acoustic sensing can be achieved without...
ANSYS Acquires Newmerical Technolgies
ANSYS has acquired the assets of Newmerical Technologies International (NTI), a developer of in-flight icing simulation software and associated design, testing and certification services, the company said in a statement Wednesday. NTI develops and markets advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software
Thales Connects Two French Army Simulation Centers With Simulated Helicopters
Thales simulation system has connected the two French Army simulation centers located more than 150 km apart to operate as a network, with a total of 12 simulated helicopters interacting in the same tactical scenario. The simulation centres involved were at Phalsbourg (1st Combat Helicopter Regiment) and Etain (3rd Combat Helicopter...
General Dynamics To Upgrade Four Channel Digital Modular Radios With Hi-Fi Dynamic...
General Dynamics announced today that its four-channel Digital Modular Radios (DMR) are being upgraded with high-frequency dynamic routing (HFDR) software to turn the radio's four channels into eight virtual channels. In addition to HFDR, the new high-frequency virtual channel exploitation software expands the DMR's communications capacity to 16 virtual channels when operating in the high frequency (HF) line-of-sight and ultra-high frequency (UHF) satellite communications frequencies
OIS-AT To Showcase Bird Detection And UAV Tracking Radar Systems At Aero...
OIS-Advanced Technology (OIS-AT) announced Tuesday that it has indigenously produced new radar that offers protection to aircraft against the bird hits while another can detect and track unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), IANS reported. The company further stated that, the two radars would be unveiled at the Aero India 2015 Airshow later this month
Microsoft To Share Windows Source Code With Indian Army
The Indian Army will be using proprietary Windows source code of Microsoft with an aim to develop Secure Operating System. “Microsoft has agreed to give the source code
Northrop Grumman To Supply 142 Scalable Agile Beam Radars For Taiwanese F-16
Northrop Grumman announced Today that it has received its first order for its APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) from Lockheed Martin for Taiwans F-16 Fighters. The order comes within four months of design reviews of the system and consists of 142 SABR units
Exelis, U&U Engineering Win $10 million Taiwanese Night Vision Tubes Contract.
Exelis and partner U&U Engineering have won a contract valued at $10 million to provide the government of Taiwan with night vision tubes. The contract, awarded competitively, is a direct commercial sale contract and deliveries for this order will take place during the first six months of 2015
Indian Navy Operationalizes Radar Network For Coastal Security
A radar network for coastal security has been operationalized on the mainland, Indian Navy stated while submitting its response to the Bombay High Court in response to a public interest litigation filed by an NGO Association for Aiding Justice. Setting up of radar sensors on the island territories is also now nearly completed, Indian Navy was quoted as saying by The Indian Express
Pentagon To Store Non-Sensitive Data In Cloud
US Department of Defense will move its non-sensitive data to the cloud storage system in order to reduce costs and enhance security. “We are such a big market that they [commercial companies] will be willing to adapt their security to meet us
Dark Eagle Hypersonic Missile Tested in Secretive U.S. Launch from Cape Canaveral...
Kim Jong-un Attends Launch of 5,000-Ton Destroyer at North Korean Naval Shipyard
India Closer to Hypersonic Weapon: DRDO Conducts Second Test of Scramjet Engine
Poland’s First Locally Built AW149 Helicopter Takes Flight
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
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
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...
