A court in Paris has ordered a probe by the National Financial Prosecutors Office into a 2016 deal to sell 36 Rafale figher jets to India by Dassualt Aviation. French investigative new website Mediapart reported July 2, 2021, “as confirmed to us by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (French acronym-PNF), the Paris court on June 14 opened a judicial investigation, entrusted to an examining magistrate, on the sale by France to India of 36 Rafale fighters
Royal Marines together with Lithuanian, Portuguese and American commandos conducted raids along the Lithuanian coast and on a radar station inland as part of ‘Exercise Strong Griffin, in what Russia sees as a threat to it is activities in the Baltic region. The exercises concluded on June 29
Tekhnodinamika Holding, a subsidiary of Russias Rostec has developed a decoy cartridge to protect fighter jets from smart missiles. Identified as L376-2 ‘Yagel, the cartridge is fired in the direction of the aircrafts movement thereby confusing the missile at the last minute
Aerojet Rocketdyne has demonstrated a technology that allows on-demand thrust termination of a rocket motor to advance the realization of hypersonic missiles. DARPAs Operational Fires (OpFires) program, which is developing and demonstrating new technologies for ground-launched medium-range hypersonic weapons, successfully completed full-scale static test firing of a unique second stage propulsion system
The Biden administration has reportedly temporarily suspended a $100 million worth military aid package to Ukraine that includes even lethal weapons. The National Security Council directed officials to put the package together, as Washington grew increasingly concerned over a massive Russian military buildup near the border with Ukraine and in the Crimean Peninsula
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Concerned by aviation accidents where artificial intelligence (AI)-driven controls have failed in critical situations, the U.S
The UEC-Klimov Company of Russia presented a shipping container based mobile servicing unit for the new VK-650V engine mounted on the KA-226T light helicopter. To improve after-sales service, specialists of UEC-Klimov have developed the concept of a mobile service unit (MSU) that takes quick maintenance and repair of engines to the point of operation