Airbus Helicopters has handed over an H225 helicopter to the Argentine Coast Guard. This new helicopter will be used for search and rescue missions in the Argentinian sea
Lockheed Martin has won a $17 million contract from UK MoD to extend its support to its Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (CATT). CATT, the virtual training system, is based at the Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, the company announced today
Indian Bharat Dynamics (BDL) has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed second generation, 2.8 km range, anti-tank guided missile, Amogha-1
Pentagon has set up India centric Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) to work all the initiatives ongoing under Indo-US DTTI (Defense Trade and Technology Initiative). “The cell is part of the efforts to pursue both the initiatives that came out of the joint statement between the US President and the Indian Prime Minister in January in New Delhi and an initiative to move quickly and timely and be thorough, which in my opinion requires dedicated support to ramp up the operational tempo,” Keith Webster, who heads the IRRC was quoted as saying by PTI Tuesday
Insitu has won a $6.9 million contract from US navy to adapt the Cosworth AG heavy fuel engine for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
General Dynamics has presented new AJAX Armoured Fighting Vehicle at DSEI 2015. The new armoured fighting vehicle is the replacement for the currently deployed Alvis Scimitar recce vehicle developed some 40 years ago
Thales has won a £54 million contract for the supply of its DNGS-T3 Stabilized Day/Night Gunnery Sight for the Production Phase of the UK MoDs SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) program from Lockheed Martin. The Gunnery sight will be integrated onto the turret at LMUKs facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, UK
MBDA has won a $462 million contract to sustain air to air missile that is being used by Typhoon jets of Royal Air Force. Under the eight-year contract, MBDA (UK) will design and build the new variant of their Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (ASRAAM) missile, incorporating updated sub-systems into the current ASRAAM design
The Chinese peoples liberation army will equip its main battle tanks with electric reactive armor to prevent damage caused due to anti-tank weapons. Electric reactive armor is usually made of two electrical plates separated by an insulator to make a high-power capacitor, Global Times reported today
The Indian MoD has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to procure electronic warfare (EW) suite for all Mi-17 V5 helicopters. According to the RFI floated today, the EW suite meant for Mi-17 V5 will comprise of Radar Warning Receiver (RWR), Missile Approach Warning System (MAWS) and Counter Measure Dispensing System (CMDS) and a limited number of Laser Warning Receiver (LWR) and Directed Infrared Counter Measure (DIRCM) for some Mi-17 helicopters