The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems FAST Labs research and development organization $7 million for the Oversight autonomous space-based target custody program. Traditional space intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) collection can be siloed, labor intensive, and unable to dynamically re-evaluate quickly enough to take advantage of new space systems
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) signed a contract to export three specially customised ANKA drone systems to Malaysia for approximately $100 million.The ANKAs for Malaysia are equipped with with satellite control capability besides radars specific to Malaysia's needs
Malaysia has signed a contract worth of RM187 million for the leasing of 4 Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters for the Malaysian Army Aviation. The contract was signed with a local outfit, Aerotree Defence & Services, at the ongoing Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (LIMA) exhibition
Iran has unveiled Khorramshahr-4 (Khaibar), a new ballistic missile with a 2,000km launch range. As per Iranian media, tests of the new missile have been successful
Russia today announced that it had entered into an agreement with it ally Belarus, to store tactical nuclear weapons. These non-strategic nuclear weapons are meant to be launched from the Iskander surface-to-surface missile which has a range of 500 km besides the Su-25 aircraft whose combat radius is 357 km
Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu and his Belarusian counterpart Viktor Khrenin have signed an agreement defining the procedures for storing Russian nuclear weapons at a special storage facility on Belarusian territory. "During the meeting (between the defense ministers), documents determining the procedure for keeping Russian non-strategic nuclear weapons in a special storage facility on the territory of the Republic of Belarus were signed," the ministry's press service confirmed today
Hanwha Aerospace has invested in ‘InfiniDome, an Israeli start-up that has 'anti-jamming' technology to respond to GPS interference. As the jamming attack that neutralizes GPS has emerged as a new threat not only in the military sector but also in the private sector, such as delivery drones, robots, and autonomous driving, it has preemptively secured technology to respond to it
The Czech Republic has expressed interest to join an emerging push by Germany to upgrade its fleet of Leopard 2 main battle tanks to the latest A8 configuration. Germanys Ministry of Defense wants to purchase 18 Leopard 2 A8 main battle tanks for $565 million to replace the Leopard 2 A6 surrendered to Ukraine
Northrop Grumman recently completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the U.S
SARISA drone from Greek SAS Technology has fired a Thales 70mm rocket as part of a trial that took place at a firing range of the Hellenic MODs General Directorate for Defense investments and Armaments (GDDIA). The test was conducted on April 25, Thales announced Wednesday