Indias Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) will double the production rate of Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) from eight to 16 per year from 2019. “Besides enhancing infrastructure for redouble manufacturing of Tejas, HAL has also outsourced manufacture of some major components including wings and fuselage of the jet to private industry which will further speed up rate of production,” HAL Chairman and Managing Director T Suvarna Raju said Sunday
US F-35 fighter jets are likely to be purchased by fewer overseas government due to surge in the dollar value, a senior Lockheed Martin executive said yesterday. The strengthening of dollar value has resulted into jets becoming more expensive
China is planning to equip J-20 stealth fighter jets with home-made engines that incorporate Powder Metallurgy superalloy turbine disks. China intends to replace the current Russia-produced Saturn AL-31F engines between 2018 and 2019,
Singapore Technologies Engineering has won a contract from Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) for the production and supply of a new Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV). Delivery of the new AFV will begin in 2019, the ministry said in a press release on Wednesday (Mar 22)
Malaysia's Boustead Holdings Bhds (BHB) has received a letter of acceptance (LoA) from Malaysian defense ministry for a contract to supply four units of littoral mission ships for RM1.17 billion (US$264
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Phase 2 contracts for its low-cost, reusable unmanned aerial systems (UASs) project dubbed ‘Gremlins to the two teams. The winning teams - one is led by Dynetics, Inc
Germany has plans to buy six Lockheed Martin C-130J military transport planes for around US$966 Million starting in 2019 under a joint operating agreement with France. Germany and France first began working on the deal in October and announced broad outlines of their plans in February at a meeting of the NATO alliance, part of a broader push to increase European defence cooperation,
Indian Air Force will have 123 indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas fighter jets in its fleet by 2024-25 provided that the current development and capacity enhancement plans move as per schedule. Currenly, "Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is engaged with setting up a new assembly line and is also involving the private sector in a big way," the Chief Managing Director (CMD) of HAL T
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $98 million contract by the US Navy to produce Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) shipboard EW systems. “Lockheed Martin Corp
Russian Federal Treasury released figures have confirmed that the nations defense budget has been cut by 25.5% for 2017, falling from RUB3