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Slovakia Close To Acquiring Gripen Aircrafts
September 3, 2014 @ 08:41 AMThe Czech Republic, Slovakia and Sweden have signed a letter of intent agreeing to co-operate on using the Saab Gripen fighter paving the way for a potential Slovakian acquisition of the aircraft. “Today's signing will lay the foundation for bilateral co-operation around a common airspace surveillance of Slovakia and the Czech Republic,” the Swedish defence ministry said August 30
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Chinese Army To Get To Anti-Tank Missile: Reports
August 27, 2014 @ 02:38 PMChinas People's Liberation Army ground force will have another new state-of-the-art weapon in its arsenal－the HJ-12 anti-tank missile, which can destroy tanks at a distance of more than 4 km, according to a report published by China Daily. Developed by China North Industries Group Corp, the weapon will enable the PLA to catch up with the antitank combat capability of its Western and Russian counterparts and help it gain a bigger share in the international military equipment market, according to the report
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Pentagon Wants Next Gen Armored Vehicles With Less Armor
August 25, 2014 @ 09:14 AMPentagon is eyeing next-generation armored vehicles that are more mobile, maneuverable and survivable, but with less armor. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host a proposers day to give potential contractors a more clear idea of what the Defense Department wants in its Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program in September
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Mexican Navy Receives Beechcraft T-6C+ Military Trainers
August 22, 2014 @ 02:27 PMBeechcraft Corporation has delivered two T-6C+ military trainers ordered earlier this year to the Mexican Navy Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR), as well as one King Air 350ER. “Being chosen by the Mexican Navy for this modernization program shows a superior level of confidence not only in Beechcraft products to fill its mission requirements, but in the product support well provide as part of the agreement,” said Russ Bartlett, president, Beechcraft Defense Company
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DARPA’s SyNAPSE Develops Brain Mimicking 5.4 Billion Transistor Chip
August 12, 2014 @ 02:40 PMDARPAs Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program has developed a new chip that mimics brains power-saving efficiency; uses 100x less power for complex processing than modern chips, DARPA said in a statement. The SyNAPSE chip is designed by researchers at IBM and is loaded with more than 5 billion transistors and boasts more than 250 million “synapses,” or programmable logic points, analogous to the connections between neurons in the brain
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Rockwell Collins Selected For Phase 3 Of Darpa Mesodynamic Program
July 29, 2014 @ 08:05 PMSandia National Laboratories and Rockwell Collins are selected for Phase 3 of the DARPA Meso-dynamic Architectures program. The aim of the program is to research light-to-sound conversion in ultra-small optical waveguides and develop future system capabilities beyond those attainable with existing technology
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MBDA Brimstone 2 Missile Enters Production And Starts Evaluation For Typhoon
July 17, 2014 @ 07:21 AMMBDA today announced that the Brimstone 2 missile will be evaluated for UK Typhoons. The missile will later enter service with the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) on Tornado GR4s
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DARPA Assigns Rockwell To Develop Antenna Technology
July 11, 2014 @ 10:22 AMRockwell Collins bagged a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop new electronically scanned array (ESA) antenna technology as part of the Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) program. This program aims to make ESAs, a common building block component that is digitally interconnected, reconfigurable, and readily upgradeable
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DARPA, US Navy To Develop Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node
June 12, 2014 @ 02:21 PMDARPA and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on a joint DARPA/Navy research and development program called “Tern". This joint effort builds upon the existing work of DARPAs Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program, or “TERN,” which has been exploring concepts for a long-endurance and long-range aircraft that would operate from a variety of Navy ships
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UK To Investigate AgustaWestland Over Indian VVIP Helicopter Scandal?
June 9, 2014 @ 01:16 PMThe United Kingdom is reportedly considering launching its own investigation against AgustaWestland in connection with the Indian VVIP helicopter deal. According to Exaronews
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