DRDO To Put Up Simulators Of LCA Tejas And Su-30MKI At Aero...
The DRDO exhibit will put up three real-time simulators of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas and the Sukhoi-30 MKI at the Aero India 2015, scheduled to begin on February 18. PS Subramanyam, programme director (Combat aircraft) and director, Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), was quoted as saying by Bangalore Mirror that...
Lockheed Martin Proposes Radar System For UK Royal Navy’s ASAC Programme
Lockheed Martin UK Integrated Systems (UKIS) has proposed radar/mission system for the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) Crowsnest airborne surveillance and control (ASaC) programme. The proposed radar system offers a 'future-proofed' solution exploiting the capability of IAI Elta's EL/M-2052 active electronically scanned array (AESA) multimode radar, according to the report published on...
Lockheed Martin’s VOSS Sensor Program Gets Milestone C Certification
Milestone C has certified US Army and Lockheed Martins Vehicle Optics Sensor System (VOSS) program as the standard sensor package on mine resistant ambush-protected vehicles. The final certification is required for transition of quick reaction capability to a program of record, Lockheed said in a statement Monday
Kelvin Hughes' SharpEye Radar Selected For New Zealand Anzac Frigates Upgrade
The New Zealand Ministry of Defence has selected Kelvin Hughes to supply SharpEye radars and an Agile Tracker as part of Lockheed Martin prime contract for the Frigate Systems Upgrade project. Kelvin Hughes will be supplying their S-Band solid state upmast 2D navigation and surveillance radar SharpEyeTM, for two ship sets...
Rockwell Collins Develops Advanced Remote Secure Receiver For Soldiers
Rockwell Collins has developed the Remote Secure Receiver (RSR) that features smallest, lowest power, protected, secure and trusted Selected Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) GPS solution for the soldiers. The RSR which was recently ordered by the Battlefield Airmen Office of the Air Force Special Operations Command, offers the warfighter assured PNT...
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 changing the sensors
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 Regiment) in Eastern France, according to Thales press release on February 4
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
Upgraded Russian Iskander Missiles Foxing Patriot Defense Systems Guarding Kyiv
Media Access to Pentagon Curbed
Ukrainian Special Forces Receive German Caracal Anti-Drone SUVs
Malaysian MoD Orders 2 Additional Thales Groundmaster Radars
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...
