Categories

IBC Wins Raytheon Contract For Beralcast Component For F/A-18 Fighter Jets

May 30, 2017 @ 12:58 PM

IBC Advanced Alloys Corp has won a contract from Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems to produce a beryllium-aluminum cast component for use in Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) system, currently in use on US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets. Although IBC expects to produce this part for Raytheon over multiple years...

Israel's Aeronautics Group To Present Multi-Mission 'Orbiter 4' UAS At Paris Air...

May 30, 2017 @ 11:28 AM

Israel-based Aeronautics Group will present its newly manufactured UAS ‘Orbiter 4 that can carry and operate two different payloads simultaneously, at the Paris Air Show. The Orbiter 4 can carry a maritime patrol radar (MPR) together with a cellular interception sensor, and conduct land or maritime ISTAR missions beyond Line Of...

Greek Mirage 2000 Jet Crashes After Equipment Malfunction

May 30, 2017 @ 11:07 AM

A Greek Mirage 2000 fighter jet has malfunctioned during a training exercise involving simulated fight between the two aircraft of 332 Air Force Squadron. A Greek Air Force Mirage 2000 fell in the area of Skopelos island during an exercise at Monday noon; the pilot is safe in hospital,

Canada Pays Additional $30 Million To Develop F-35 Fighter Jet

May 29, 2017 @ 03:57 PM

Canada has paid $30 million to develop its version of the F-35 fighter jet that could become insurance in the trade dispute between US's Boeing and Canada's Bombardier. The annual payment was made to the US military at the end of April, the Department of National Defence said in the...

Elbit Systems To Deliver Ground Electronic Intelligence Capabilities To European Nation

May 29, 2017 @ 03:37 PM

Elbit Systems has won a $390 million, to supply an array of ground electronic intelligence capabilities to a European country. The contract, which includes various intelligence capabilities, as well as communications and command and control solutions, will be performed over a three-year period

Rafael Displays Spike LR II Battlefield Missile

May 29, 2017 @ 03:36 PM

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has unveiled SPIKE LR II, a 5th generation variant of the Spike Family that can be fired from vehicles, helicopters, ships, and ground launchers. The new missile will be presented for the first time at the Paris Air Show in June, the company announced Monday

Indonesia Names Three High-Ranking Military Officials In AugustaWestland VVIP Chopper Scam

May 29, 2017 @ 02:17 PM

Three high ranking military officials have been named as suspects in a scam that involved inflating the price of AugustaWestland AW-101 helicopter meant for ferrying VVIPs, the Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gen. Gator Nurmantyo said on Friday

Russia Displays Mobile Mortar System Mounted On Tiger Vehicle

May 29, 2017 @ 01:49 PM

Russia has displayed latest 120-mm self-propelled mortar on the chassis of armored Tiger at the landfill Research Institute "Geodesy" in Krasnoarmeysk near Moscow for the first time. Russia's Motovilikhinskie Zavody PJSC (Perm) in partnership with JSC Central Research Institute Burevestnik (Nizhny Novgorod) has developed a new 120mm mobile mortar system mounted on the Tigr 4×4 all-terrain light armoured vehicle,

Russia’s MC-21 Passenger Airliner Makes First Flight

May 29, 2017 @ 12:38 PM

Russias new generation of passenger airliner MC-21-300 made its first flight with duration of 30 minutes, altitude of 1000 m at a speed 300 km per hour. Rostec Corp acts as the integrator of the aircraft multiple systems

Final Batch Of Military Training Aircraft From S Korea To Arrive In...

May 29, 2017 @ 12:18 PM

Philippine Air Force (PAF) will receive the final batch of two FA-50PH training aircraft from South Korea Wednesday. The final batch of FA-50PH Fighter/Surface Attack/Lead-in Fighters Training Aircraft with tail numbers 011 and 012 from South Korea at the Haribon Hangar, Air Force City, Clark Air Base, Pampanga, Air Force spokesman Col

US Air Force To Keep A-10 Attack Planes In Service Following Three...

May 29, 2017 @ 10:35 AM

US Air Force has proposed to keep all 283 A-10 attack planes, which were once almost at the edge of retirement, in the 2018 Pentagon budget plan sent to Congress this week. The Air Force have reversed the Obama administration's view of the plane as an unaffordable extra during a time of tight budgets,

US Fails To Keep Records Of Billion Dollars Arms Trade In Middle...

May 24, 2017 @ 02:34 PM

US Army has failed to keep accurate records on more than $1 billion worth arms transfers in Iraq and Kuwait, according to declassified document obtained by a human rights organization. The arms have been supplied under US-Iraqi cooperation agreement

FEATURES/INTERVIEWS
© 2024 DefenseMirror.com - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED