Beretta Acquires Victrix Armaments Brand From Italian firm Rottigni
Beretta has acquired Victrix Armaments brand (victrixarmaments.com) from Officina Meccanica Rottigni, an Italian company based in Cazzano SantAndrea (BG)
US Army Test Fires Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile From Multi-Mission Ground Launcher
US Army has tested fired Miniature Hit to Kill (MHTK) missile, AIM-9X Sidewinder and Hellfire missile from its new Army Multi-mission launcher (MML). The interceptor missile is developed to protect forces on the ground by destroying incoming enemy fire from artillery, rockets, mortars, cruise missiles and even drones and aircraft, ...
Indian Research Space Organization Carries CE20 Flight Engine Acceptance Test
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has conducted first CE20 flight engine acceptance test for duration of 25s in high altitude simulation test facility during December 2016. This flight acceptance is an important milestone for ISRO as it could cross the major engine development endeavors in the maiden attempt
Fincantieri To Upgrade Malta's P61 Offshore Patrol Vessel
Fincantieri shipbuilding groups has won a contract from the Armed Forces of Malta for the upgrading of P61, an Offshore Patrol Vessel, built by Fincantieri over 10 years ago. The contract was signed by Brigadier Jeffrey Curmi, Commander of the Armed Forces of Malta, and Gian Battista Corbetta, Head of Maintenance,...
US To Provide Components For Taiwan's MIM-72 Surface To Air Missiles
US has approved to spend $23 million to provide new components for several hundred MIM-72 surface to air missiles (SAMs) that Taiwan purchased from the Americans in the 1980s. These missiles were used on the 90 Chaparral air-defense missile systems Taiwan purchased
Russia Developing Khishchnik High-Speed Missile
Russia's Elektropribor Design Bureau is developing a high-speed torpedo dubbed Khishchnik (Russian for ‘raptor) to replace the Shkval underwater anti-ship missile. The expert Vladimir Tuchkov writes in an article with the Svobodnaya Pressa online news agency
UK Navy's Merlin Helicopter To Be Fitted With Thales Searchwater Radar
Lockheed Martin has selected a new generation of the Thales Searchwater radar and Cerberus mission system to be fitted to existing Merlin Mk2s helicopters for delivering Royal Navy with an airborne surveillance and control capability (ASaC). Lockheed Martin acts as the Ministry of Defences prime contractor for the Merlin helicopter
US Navy’s ‘Night Hunter’ Drone Ship To Stalk Russian, Chinese Submarines
The US navy is expanding the mission capabilities of its experimental submarine-hunting drone ship Sea Hunter that is capable of stalking Russian and Chinese submarines. The diesel-powered submarine is able to stalk for 10,000 nautical miles on a single tank of fuel at a speed of up to 27 knots
Pak Navy Receives Two Patrol Vessels, To Get 2 More From China
China has supplied two patrol vessels, PMSS Hingol and the PMSS Basol, to Pakistan's Navy and will be delivering two more soon to protect Sea Route of the $54 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The vessels were received January 14 by Commander of the Pakistan Navy Vice-Admiral Arifullah Hussaini
Lockheed Martin To Procure Undersea Surveillance System For US Navy
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems has won a $120 million contract to procure Technical Insertion 16 Acoustic-Rapid-Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) engineering services and the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS). A-RCI is a sonar system that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing through rapid insertion of COTS-based hardware and software, the serivice announced Friday
Doss Aviation Wins USAF Initial Flight Training Contract
Doss Aviation has won a $290 million contract from US Air Force for initial flight training. The contractor will provide ground training and flying training for pilots, combat systems officers (CSO), remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) pilots and international military students in preparation for specialized undergraduate pilot training, undergraduate CSO training, and undergraduate RPA training
Bell-Boeing To Develop V-22 Osprey For Japan
Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office (JPO) has won a $138 million Navy engineering contract from US department of defense to develop and test the V-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft for Japan. “Bell-Boeing JPO, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $138
British Army Declares Readiness to Counter Russian Threats
Australia Delivers Guardian-Class Patrol Boat to Fiji
Australia, India Agree on Air-to-Air Refuelling Cooperation
New Dutch-made Satellite to Strengthen Military Intelligence by 2027
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
Russia's Growing Influence in Africa: Arms Sales and Military Bases
Russia's expanding influence in Africa, demonstrated by arms sales, military deployments, and diplomatic engagements, reflects a significant geopolitical shift on...