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General Atomics, Hellenic AF to Conduct Maritime Surveillance Demo Using MQ-9 Drones
November 12, 2019 @ 11:24 AMGeneral Atomics and Hellenic Air Force (HAF) will conduct a series of demonstration flights of MQ-9 drones to showcase its surveillance and drone countermeasures capabilities to the European countries, in December. “Flights will base out of the HAFs site in Larissa and use a MQ-9 Guardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) to showcase maritime surveillance capabilities, as well as a Detect and Avoid (DAA) system that enables RPA to fly safely in civil airspace alongside manned aircraft,” General Atomics said in a statement Monday
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India’s HAL to Develop Prototype of Upgraded Su-30MKI Jet
November 8, 2019 @ 09:11 AMIndias state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is poised to develop the prototype of upgraded Su-30MKI fighter featuring advanced radars, weapons and more, with assistance from Russia. In what could be the countrys largest upgrade program with all of Indias 272 Sukhois set to be modernised, sources told
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US Predator Drones Log Over 6 Million Flight Hours
November 6, 2019 @ 11:03 AMGeneral Atomics Predator series of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) which includes the Predator, Predator B, Gray Eagle, Avenger and MQ-9B SkyGuardian lines, surpassed six million flight hours on October 31. The aircraft completed 430,495 total missions with close to 90% of those missions flown in combat, the company said in a
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Iran's New Hand-launched Drone has Electronic Warfare Capability
October 31, 2019 @ 08:40 AMAn upgraded version of Farpad hand-launched drone that was inducted into the Iranian Armys Ground Forces, has electronic warfare capabilities. “Farpad is equipped with autopilot and portable ground control station
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DARPA to Trial AI-based Dogfight Technology
October 28, 2019 @ 08:48 AMArtificial Intelligence (AI) based technology designed to take over low-level maneuvering tasks from fighter pilots. The first two trials will take place November 2019 and January 2020 near Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which is developing and managing the simulation air environment for the AlphaDogfight Trials
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Iran Unveils High Speed Attack Boats
October 10, 2019 @ 04:56 AMIran unveiled speedboats that can attain a top speed of 90 knots (167 kmph) on Wednesday. "Today, marine vessels that cruise at 90knots/h will be unveiled," said Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, according to local media
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DARPA Completes Preliminary Design Review of Ground-launched Hypersonic Weapon's Booster
October 9, 2019 @ 04:29 PMDARPA has completed preliminary design review of a new ground-launched hypersonic weapons system being developed under Operational Fires (OpFires) program. OpFires aims to develop and demonstrate a ground-launched hypersonic weapon system to engage critical, time-sensitive targets in contested environments
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Russia Developing New Engine for KA-226T Helicopter
September 20, 2019 @ 12:38 PMRostec Corporation, the parent company of Russian Helicopters has announced the launch of a new engine project to power the KA-226T helicopter, which has been selected to be manufactured in India. The St
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We’ll Buy Patriots if They Equal S-400 Capabilities: Erdogan
September 14, 2019 @ 07:55 AMTurkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the country would mull over the possibility of buying Patriot defense systems from the US, if they match up to the capabilities of the Russian S-400s it acquired for $2.5 billion in 2017
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Now, a US Research Project to Detect Fake Media Products
September 11, 2019 @ 11:00 AMRecognizing the havoc caused by public dissemination of fake information, the US Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program to develop technologies that make the automatic detection, attribution, and characterization of falsified media assets a reality. The goal of SemaFor is to develop a suite of semantic analysis algorithms that dramatically increase the burden on the creators of falsified media, making it exceedingly difficult for them to create compelling manipulated content that goes undetected
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U