Lithuania Earmarks 2.5 Billion Euros To Modernize IFV, Howitzers, SAM Missiles By
Lithuania has earmarked Euro 873 million for the defense expenditure for 2018. Among the several programs listed in the Lithuanian Defence System document released , main modernization projects include two battalions of Infantry fighting vehicle BOXER-VILKAS until 2021, one artillery battalion of Self-propelled PZH2000 Howitzers until 2019, Norwegian–US advanced surface to...
General Atomics Develops HEPPC With Twice Energy Than Existing Railgun Weapon Systems
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that it has developed a High Energy Pulsed Power Container (HEPPC) that provides twice the energy density than existing railgun pulsed power solutions. The HEPPC can reduce the number of pulsed power containers required to launch projectiles or hybrid missiles from a railgun weapon...
Supacat, Rheinmetall Team To Offer Dutch-based Vehicles For Wheeled Vehicle Replacement Program
Supacat and Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles Netherlands (RMMV NL) have teamed to offer Dutch-built Supacat Protected Vehicles for the 12kN air assault vehicle (AASLT) and a 12kN light-weight protected vehicle requirements as part of the Defence-wide Wheeled Vehicle Replacement Programme (DVOW) with the Dutch Army. Under the teaming agreement and...
Ukraine Test-fires New Batch Of STUGNA Anti-Tank Missile
Ukraines State Kyiv Design Bureau, Luch, has test-fired its new batch of anti-tank precision-guided missile. The bureau released a video showing the test-firing of a ‘Stugna anti-tank missile at a military range Friday
Malaysia Receives Fourth And Final Airbus A400M Aircraft
Malaysia has received the fourth and final Airbus A400M aircraft at the Airbus final assembly plant in Seville, Spain. Malaysian deputy Defense Minister DS Johari Baharom signed an acceptance document marking the clearance to embark the ferry flight to Subang on March 12, Malaysian Defence reported Wednesday
Lockheed Martin’s JASSM Completes Product Verification Flight Tests
Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) has completed two product verification flight tests at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Focused on demonstrating the updated Global Positioning System (GPS) anti-jam hardware and software, flight testing verified effective operation in both GPS-degraded and non-jammed environments
FNSS To Build New ZAHA Amphibious Assault Vehicle For Turkish Armed Forces
Turkish FNSS Savunma has won a contract to build 23 amphibious armored assault vehicles, 2 amphibious assault command vehicles and 2 amphibious assault rescue vehicles for the Turkish armed forces. FNSS will develop a new Zırhlı Amfibi Hücum Aracı (ZAHA) amphibious assault vehicle for use on new TCG Anadolu amphibious assault ship, According to Undersecretariat for Defence Industries of Turkeys Ministry of National Defence
Boeing Faces Lawsuit Alleging Design Faults In Malaysian MH370 Crashed Flight
A lawsuit has been filed against Boeing alleging series of electrical and other malfunctions caused the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, on behalf of the families of 44 people who were onboard the plane. The lawsuit filed last Friday in the US District Court of the Central District of South Carolina alleges there are several possible reasons the plane crashed
Indian Air Force To Create Green Corridor For Rapid Transport Organs
Indian Air Force is all set to create green corridor to rapid transport organs from Chandigarh to Delhi. As part of the new corridor project, a mock drill for transporting a liver from the Command Hospital in Chandimandir to the Chandigarh airport was held today
India To Sign FGFA Deal With Russia Only If Full-Scale Technology Transfer...
India will sign the final research and development contract with Russia for the fifth-generation fighter aircraft only if there is full-scale transfer of technology and added benefits. The decision has been taken at the highest levels in order to not repeat the mistakes of the entire Su-30MKI jet acquisition program from Russia that cost 55,717 crore to India without any tangible help in developing indigenous fighter-manufacturing capabilities,”
Dassault To Deliver 9 Rafales, 45 Falcons In 2017
Dassault plans to deliver 45 Falcon and nine Rafale fighter jets in 2017 and expects to increase 2017 net sales given the Rafale export net sales. Of the nine Rafales, one will be delivered to France and the rest to Egypt, Dassault mentioned as part of the forecast in the financial press statement released Wednesday
U.S.A.F. Receives First EPAWSS Electronic Warfare System-equipped F-15E Fighter...
Hundreds of British Military Vehicles Head to Romania for NATO's Exercise Steadfast...
Pentagon Funds Project to Extract Rare Earths from E-Waste
France Received 14 Rafale Fighters in 2024
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