The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) teamed up with Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky to demonstrate Black Hawk helicopters ability to perform internal and external cargo resupply missions and a rescue operation, autonomously. Performed Oct
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The UK Air Forces Royal Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft have been part of the force's largest ever mass firing of Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles (ASRAAM). Over the space of 10 days, pilots from eight different Typhoon and Lightning squadrons successfully launched a total of 53 missiles at Banshee target drones
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched Beyond Linear Processing (BLiP), a program to improve radar performance by applying innovative signal processing methods. Radar systems have seen many technology improvements in apertures (antennas) and associated hardware and software since the nascent operational versions in World War II
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed an air-to-air laser communication link between GA-ASIs Laser Airborne Communication (LAC) terminals integrated onto two company-owned King Air aircraft
Japan Coast Guard (JCG) commenced flight operations using an MQ-9B SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) on October 19
MBDA has announced that the company and its partners fired a pair of AKERON MP beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) missiles from SHERPA vehicle in late September. MBDA and its partners of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) LynkEUs project gathered in Cyprus on Sept
The second MC-21 aircraft completed its first flight with domestic PD-14 engines, Russias state-owned Rostec has announced. The aircraft took off from the airfield of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of UACs subsidiary Irkut Corporation
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The Franco-German ambitious project to build a Future Combat Air System (FCAS) will be launched in three years. The Future Combat Air System (French: Système de combat aérien du future or SCAF; Spanish: Futuro Sistema Aéreo de Combate or FSAC) is a European combat system of systems under development by Airbus, Thales Group, Indra Sistemas and Dassault Aviation