Eastern European nations such as Romania, Poland and Bulgaria have increased arms imports, mostly from the US to counter possible Russian aggression. The Ukraine crisis has left Russias neighbors vulnerable and have all announced plans to buy aircraft, electronic warfare systems and missiles from Western countries
Boeing has completed environmental and performance qualification testing on the aircraft satellite communications antenna system it is developing for multipurpose satellite operator Al Yah Satellite Company (Yahsat) of the United Arab Emirates. The system has passed customer-witnessed acceptance testing, and its required data transfer rate has been validated in over-the-air satellite tests
DRS has unveiled a new signal intelligence (SIGINT) sensor roughly the size of a small self-contained hard drive which it claims as the worlds smallest, according to various news reports. DRS claims that the sensors have twice the frequency coverage and offers twice the bandwidth
Bell Helicopter , a Textron Inc. company, will showcase the full scale Bell V-280 Valor mockup at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting and exposition, held at Walter E
Exelis has been awarded a follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin to manufacture composite missile bodies and structures for Lots 11 and 12 of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM). The value of the award is approximately $20 million
Polaris announced the launch of the Dagor ultra-light combat vehicle, at the 2014 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting, in Washington DC, Oct. 13-15
China's central military authority has reportedly “issued guidelines to enhance management of military information and severely crack down on illegal online activities involving military affairs”. According to PLA Daily, a military newspaper, the circular was issued by the Central Military Commission (CMC) to strengthen military information security of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and armed police
Aurora Flight Sciences announced that it has won a contract to develop Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys (DARPA) SideArm launch and recovery system Tuesday. Demonstration of the SideArm technology was a key part of Aurora's work on the Tactically Enhanced Reconnaissance Node (Tern) program
The Czech Defence Ministry has announced plans to acquire a new anti-aircraft radar system to replace obsolete Soviet-era equipment, according to Radio Prague. The ministry will reportedly pursue the acquisition independently, abandoning plans to develop a new air defence radar system together with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia
BAE Systems has successfully completed its acquisition of Signal Innovations Group, Inc. (SIG), a provider of imaging technologies and analytics to the U