The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter will undergo user-trails by the Indian Air Force (IAF) during the last week of June 2010. The C-17 will fly into India for the trails in a fortnight’s time from where it will fly to airfields for hot and cold weather trials, informed sources said
The first flight of India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Limited Series Production (LSP) aircraft, LSP-4 took place at HAL, Bangalore airport today. The aircraft took off at 1110 hrs and landed forty minutes later, becoming the 10th Tejas aircraft flying
The Marine Corps is conducting reliability tests on its latest Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle prototypes, the service’s program manager for the effort said yesterday during a “DoD Live” bloggers roundtable. The last couple of years, we’ve been going through a redesign for reliability for the basic system,” Marine Corps Col
Lockheed Martin is gearing up for the delivery of the first C‑130J Super Hercules to the Indian Air Force later this year. In 2008 the Indian Air Force ordered six C-130J’s for Special Services, with an option for six more
India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) showed off its indigenously manufactured Light Combat Helicopter(LCH on Saturday, May 22. The LCH took to the skies in the presence of the Defence Secretary RK Singh, Vice Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal PK Barbora, Chairman HAL, Ashok Nayak and senior officials of Defence ministry and the forces
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by Raytheon Company to supply the inertial measurement solution for the Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems (JPALS) Shipboard Reference program. Under this contract, Northrop Grumman's Navigation Systems Division will deliver 18 LN-270 inertial navigation systems (INS) for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the JPALS Increment 1A Shipboard Reference System (SRS)
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Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) contract from the Israeli Ministry of Defense, valued at approximately $50 million
At DSA 2010 Rosoboronexport will present information about Russian-made military equipment. These systems include the Buk-M2E air defence missile system (ADMS), Tor-M2E SHORAD (short-range ADMS), Tunguska-M1 air defence gun/missile system, Igla-S MANPADS (man-portable ADMS), Pantsir-S1 air defence gun/missile system
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Thales UK the initial three-year support contract for the Watchkeeper Unmanned Air System (UAS) programme, for which Thales UK is also prime systems integrator. The Watchkeeper support solution will be a performance-based Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) service, providing spares and repairs, technical support and the availability of the Watchkeeper training facility