Two Indian Air Force fighters – a Sukhoi Su-30 and a Mirage 2000 – crashed in Madhya Pradesh states Morena on Saturday. The crash happened during a routine training exercise
Qatar Navys Al Fulk landing platform dock (LPD) ordered to Fincantieri, was launched Tuesday at the Palermo shipyard. The LPD, built entirely by Italian shipyards, is designed consistent with the RINAMIL (rules for naval ships classification) rules to ensure efficient land-air-marine connections
DARPA, via its Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program, is collaborating with NASA to build a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine that could expand possibilities for the space agencys future long-duration spaceflight missions. The goal is to test an NTR-enabled spacecraft in Earth orbit during the 2027 fiscal year
Austria is exercising options for 18 additional AW169M Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) produced by Italian company Leonardo. The contract was signed following the Italy-Austria Government-to-Government (G2G) Agreement amendment signed in December 2022, through which Austria is exercising options for these additional units
Boeing is leading a team tasked to develop a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) to accommodate advanced propulsion systems for fuel-efficient aircraft. The technologies demonstrated and tested as part of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) program will inform future designs and could lead to breakthrough aerodynamics and fuel efficiency gains
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, has signed a contract with prime contractor Appworks to provide Thailand with a complete Search And Rescue (SAR) operational system based on the COSPAS-SARSAT MEOSAR Service. The solution will make it possible to detect and locate distress signals from COSPAS-SARSAT beacons on land, in the air and at sea instantaneously, over a radius of 2,500 km centered around Bangkok, mainly using the Galileo satellite positioning system
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to move into the detailed design phase of the
Ukraines state-owned Ukroboronprom has started serial production of improved 82-mm mortar rounds at a facility of one of the NATO member countries. “It is noteworthy that the mine improved by Ukroboronprom is many times better than the regular one,” the company said
In the first major victory for Russian Forces since the annexation of the DPR and LPR regions of Southern Ukraine, the Kremlin announced the capture of Soledar town in DPR using a mix of regular soldiers and Wagner mercenaries. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing Friday that taking full control over Soledar cuts off supply routes of Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk (Bakhmut)
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) said an Avenger UAS flown by Artificial Intelligence (AI) pilot was paired with a digital twin aircraft autonomously chased a target while avoiding threats