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Rheinmetall To Upgrade German NH90 Cockpit Trainer With Asterion
April 28, 2015 @ 04:22 PMRheinmettal announced Monday that it is upgrading German Bundeswehr NH90 Cockpit Trainer to IOC+ configuration and with additional software modules from Rheinmetalls Asterion product line. Rheinmetall won a contract from Germanys BAAINBw defence procurement agency last month
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DARPA’s EXACTO Guided Bullet Demonstrates Repeatable Performance Against Moving Targets
April 28, 2015 @ 02:43 PMDARPA announced Monday that its Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program developed self-steering bullet has demonstrated repeatable performance against moving targets. EXACTO developed a self-steering bullet to increase hit rates for difficult, long-distance shots, completed in February its most successful round of live-fire tests to date
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F1 Tech To Speed BAE System’s Armored Vehicles
April 28, 2015 @ 02:25 PMBAE Systems announced Monday that it has come up with an upgraded technology ‘Active Damping system to current variants of the CV90 combat vehicle family adapted from Formula One to improve handling and speed across the battlefield. The new technology will help in breaking speed records in rough terrain and increasing the CV90s agility by reducing the vehicles pitch acceleration by approximately 40 per cent – taking a world class system to the next level, and leaving competitors behind
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Pratt And Whitney Denies US DoD IG Report On F135 Engine's Quality...
April 28, 2015 @ 01:24 PMPratt & Whitney on Monday has denied a report by the US Department of Defense's (DoD's) inspector general (IG) that has raised quality control violations of the F135 engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Fighter. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) studied flight test data and concluded that the reliability of the F135 engines is “very poor (less than half of what it should be) and has limited” progress for the F-35 program, the DoD IG report stated
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Indian Avro Replacement Program Cost Increases As Coast Guard Adds Requirement
April 28, 2015 @ 12:41 PMThe Indian Air Force's avro replacement program will now cost an additional US $870 million (INR 5,500 crore) to the existing US $1.9 billion (INR 12,000 crore) as the coast guard initiated its requirement for new patrol aircraft, Economic Times reported Tuesday
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Finmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi Presents M-345 Training Device At ITEC 2015
April 28, 2015 @ 12:34 PMFinmeccanica-Alenia Aermacchi announced Tuesday that it is presenting the M-345 Ground Based Training Demonstrator Device(GDD) at ITEC on 28-30 April 2015 in Prague. The M-345 GDD is an advanced flight simulator, representative of the flight qualities of the Alenia Aermacchi M-345 HET (High Efficiency Trainer) aircraft and offering a replica of the cockpit and the main flight controls of the aircraft
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Saab Develops Mk4 Version Radar For Gripen C/D Fighter Aircraft
April 28, 2015 @ 11:58 AMSaab announced today that it has developed PS-05/A fighter radar to a new version designated Mk4 for Gripen C/D improved performance and operating range. The PS-05/A Mk4 is the recent development of PS-05/A radar, originally developed for the Gripen fighter
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India To Start Manufacturing Its Own ‘Bofors’ Artillery Gun
April 28, 2015 @ 11:23 AMUsing drawings supplied as part of technology transfer of the original Bofors gun, the Indian Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) plans it manufacture some 114 pieces of its homemade artillery called ‘Dhanush. The plan is to equip six army batteries with the homemade gun
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BEL Exports Hull Mounted SONARs To Myanmar
April 28, 2015 @ 11:06 AMIndias Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has exported three hull-mounted SONARs to Myanmar based on the technology developed by DRDO, Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar said in a written reply at the parliament today. Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has developed SONARs for Indian Navy and has transferred technology to Indian Industries for manufacture and supply to Indian Navy
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Bolivia Receives Five Offers For Fighter Aircraft Bid
April 28, 2015 @ 10:58 AMBolivia has received five offers for its fighter aircraft requirement to re-equip the armed forces, which requires a purchase of 20 fighter jets as well as 40,000 rifles, EL Deber Bolivian News daily reported Monday. “Bolivia has received five offers, but it does not mean we will be selecting among them
Lockheed Martin Awarded $35 Billion for THAAD Missile Defense Interceptor Production
Russian Drones Destroy US MAAWLR Air Defense System in Ukraine
Russia’s YAK-130M Modernized Combat-Trainer Conducts Maiden Flight
American MAAWLR Air Defense System Seen in Ukraine
One Month Since U.S., Israeli War Against Iran: Who Is Gaining?
One month after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28 the conflict has expanded...
Modern Tank Showdown: T-90MS, Leopard 2A7, M1E3 Abrams Compared
Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) have shown their mettle in recent conflicts such as in Ukraine despite being increasingly vulnerable to...
European Nations Prioritizing Europe-made IRIS-T & SAMP-T over American Patriot Air Defense Systems?
European nations looking to procure new air defense systems appear to be giving the much-vaunted American Patriot a miss in...
Russian T-90MS Crew Discuss Future Upgrades
Defense Mirror spoke with the crew members of the Russian T-90MS main battle tank, produced by UralVagonZavod
China's Mass-produced J-35A Aircraft Set to Disrupt Global Stealth Fighter Market
China is aiming to disrupt the global stealth fighter market by mass-producing its fifth-generation J-35A at a pace comparable to...
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