China has donated 900,000 euros (1 million U.S
Airbus Helicopters has won a contract to deliver three additional H225s to Japan Coast guard. With the new order, the JCG will have a total of nine helicopters by February 2020
MBDA has introduced its new SmartGlider family of guided weapons, optimised to counter anti-access strategies and other emerging battlespace threats. Planned to become available for fast jets no later than 2025, SmartGlider forms a family of all-up-round glider weapons, with folding wings and a range of over 100 km
The US Air Force completed a series of wind tunnel tests of Raytheon-built Small Diameter Bomb II with F-35 the Joint Strike Fighter. SDB II can destroy moving targets in all weather conditions at ranges greater than 40 miles
Russia's Ilyushin has rescheduled the first flight of new Il-112V light military transport, said to be a replacement for the AN-24, for early 2018. "Our plans point to the end of this year
Russia's Kalashnikov Group has launched serial production of Russias advanced ZALA 421-16E2 unmanned reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft that features noiseless flight mode. “The companys order book for ZALA 421-16E2 complexes has been formed for this year,” the company announced Tuesday on its website
Thales, in coordination with the French defence procurement agency (DGA), has developed the capabilities of the BAT-120, a combat proven weapon system already qualified on the Mirage 2000 fighter jet. The laser-guided BAT-120 is a precision strike weapon, reasonably sized that can be carried in large numbers on the aircrafts wing pylons to fight all types of fixed or mobile targets (lightly armoured or unarmoured vehicles, go-fast vessels)
Pakistan Army will get its first three Bell AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters this year making it the first foreign military sales of this helicopter type in 20 years. "The first three helicopters (from an order of 12) are undergoing final assembly in Amarillo, Texas" Bell Helicopters vice president of international military sales Rich Harris was quoted as saying by
Safran has successfully completed the first ground run of the Arriel 2L2 engine that will power the new Korean civil and military helicopters, at its Bordes facility, beginning of June. The Arriel family was selected in 2016 to power the new Korean LCH (Light Civil Helicopter) and LAH (Light Armed Helicopter)
Russia announced at Paris Air Show that it is planning to modernize India's Su-30MKI multirole fighters with help from Italy. "In cooperation with the Italian side, we will start modernizing Indian Su-30MKIs," Russian Rosoboronexport CEO Alexander Mikheev said during a news conference Monday, in comments quoted mostly by the Russian media