US F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-18 and Sukhoi Su-27/30 family of fighter jets are ranked most popular combat aircraft in the world. According to a report published by Flight International analytical center Monday, US F-16 fighter jet makes up 16 per cent with 2264 jets ranked at number one is followed by F-18 with 1,047 aircraft making up seven per cent jets around the world
Northrop Grumman and NATOs Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Agency (NAGSMA) successfully tested an AGS derivative of Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. “The NATOs first Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) aircraft is part of a system that will allow NATO to meet the requirements of emerging situations around the world
Defence and security company Saab and UMS Aero Group AG, a Swiss supplier of tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are forming a joint venture under the name UMS Skeldar AG. UMS Skeldar will strengthen Saab's offerings in the tactical UAV market
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co
BAE Systems has been awarded an $82 million contract to modernize and deliver 23 upgraded Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV7A1) for the Brazilian Marine Corps. The vehicles, which will be the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability/Rebuild to Standard (RAM/RS) variant, will significantly enhance the current capabilities of the Brazilian Marine Corps
Boeing and Lockheed Martin have reaffirmed their objection to the US Air Forces October award of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) contract to Northrop Grumman, dismissing the lengthy source-selection process as “irreparably flawed”. Northrop Grumman confirms that it filed comments with the GAO in support of the Air Force's decision to award Northrop Grumman the LRS-B program
Germany aims to hold talks with European partners in 2016 to develop a new fighter to replace Tornado fighter jets. Reuters reported that a draft document by the Defense Ministry on ‘military aviation strategy said it was still unclear whether the new jet would be manned or unmanned
Philippines has allocated 83.9 billion pesos ($1
Elbit Systems subsidiary, CYBERBIT has been awarded a contract to provide RUAG Defence with its CyberShield-Cyber Security Trainer and Simulator (T&S). The contract is in an amount that is not material to either party and the T&S will be supplied in the coming months, the company said in a statement Monday
Iran will drop lawsuit against Russian Rosoboronexport before the supplies of the first S-300 missile systems are delivered. "[Now the lawsuit] has not been dropped