Russia has signed a contract in September this year to deliver two Mil Mi-17V-5 helicopters to Thailand. "A contract was signed in September 2017 on the delivery of two Mi-17V-5 helicopters in the interests of the Royal Thai Army
The joint venture a4ESSOR (Alliance for European Secure SOftware defined Radio) has been awarded a contract by OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en matière dARmement) to start a new phase of the ESSOR programme, called ESSOR Operational Capability 1 (OC1). The ESSOR OC1 phase aims to enhance the operational capabilities of the ESSOR High Data Rate Waveform (HDR WF), developed in the previous phase of the ESSOR programme, in order to meet the requirements of the battlefield with secure, high capacity land tactical communications, the company said in a statement Tuesday
The US President has requested an approval from Congress for a new wave of funding to support a missile defense system, US Navy ships repair and his new Asia strategy. “The request includes an additional $4
The United States is considering selling F-35 aircraft to the United Arab Emirates, which the Gulf country has been seeking for years. On November 4, Defense News reported that experts and insiders had made clear that the UAE had a continued desire to buy F-35s, in spite of the United States repeated rejections of its requests
Lockheed Martin recently delivered F-35 Full Mission Simulators (FMS) to the Israeli, Italian, Japanese and Norwegian Air Forces – the first-ever deliveries to international F-35 operators. The simulators are critical components of the pilot training capability at F-35 operating bases in these four countries, where they will facilitate pilot qualification training, continuation training and mission rehearsal training
A US Navy sailor has been seriously injured after being hit by a plane in tow onboard the USS Carl Vinson flight deck during a training exercise last week. The Los Angeles Times reports the sailor was flown by helicopter to a hospital with a serious but non-life-threatening injury
US and South Korea have reached a final agreement on removing the limit on the payload of South Korean ballistic missiles. The agreement came at a bilateral summit between the two presidents, Moon Jae-in and Donald Trump at the South Korean presidential office Cheong Wa Dae,
India's indigenously designed and developed long range subsonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay performed its fifth experimental test from a test range at Chandipur along the Odisha coast today. The state-of-the-art sleek cruise missile, which can carry warheads of up to 300 kg, took off from a specially designed launcher from the launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, near here, at about 11
India's Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) is displaying its L70 artillery gun at the Defence and Security 2017 exhibition in Bangkok. The gun has been designed and developed for the Indian Army
A group of senior Saudi officials including Prince Mansour Bin Muqrin were killed in an helicopter crash at the south western Asir region bordering Yemen. Prince Mansour Bin Muqrin, Deputy Emir of the Asir region was accompanied with Deputy Emir Salim al-Jerwishi, Emirate General Secretary Saleh bin Abdullah al-Qadi, head of Asir's Regional Agriculture Department Fahd al-Fartish and Asir Regional Police Director Major Salih bin Suleiman al-Qarzai, according to Saudi state-run TV channel Monday