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Raytheon’s Small Diameter Bomb II Completes Development Tests
April 20, 2018 @ 01:09 PMRaytheon Company has completed developmental testing on the Small Diameter Bomb II, a key step toward bringing this new capability to fighter pilots. Government confidence testing, a prerequisite for operational testing, is scheduled to be completed this year
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Chinese J-10C Fighter Jet Enters Service
April 17, 2018 @ 02:14 PMChinese home-grown multi-role fighter jet J-10C has been put into active combat duty on Monday. The stealth fighter is equipped with advanced avionics system and other airborne weapons and has airstrike capabilities within medium and close range and is capable of precision striking land and maritime targets, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force was quoted as saying in a statement by Xinhua Monday
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Raytheon Completes Final Development Test Of JSOW Missile For F-35 Aircraft Integration
April 17, 2018 @ 02:12 PMRaytheon Company and the US Navy completed the final developmental test to integrate the Joint Standoff Weapon C onto the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's C variant, keeping the low-cost, air-to-ground missile on track for full deployment in 2019. The JSOW glide weapon uses a GPS-inertial navigation system with an imaging infrared seeker that can identify and track targets autonomously
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Canadian Researchers Developing Quantum Radar to Expose Stealth Aircraft
April 17, 2018 @ 12:00 PMResearchers at the University of Waterloo are developing a new technology, which they claim will help radar operators cut through heavy background noise and isolate objects —including stealth aircraft and missiles— with unparalleled accuracy. “In the Arctic, space weather such as geomagnetic storms and solar flares interfere with radar operation and make the effective identification of objects more challenging,” said Jonathan Baugh, a faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and a professor in the Department of Chemistry who is leading the project with three other researchers at IQC and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology...
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Russian Helicopters Offers to Demonstrate Ship-borne Ka-226T Rotorcraft to India
April 14, 2018 @ 11:20 AMA delegation from the Indian MoD is likely to visit Kamov Design Bureau of Russian Helicopters to observe the demonstration flight of a light utility Ka-226T rotorcraft and its ship-based version. “We have offered the Indian side to visit Kamov Design Bureau that developed Ka-226T for the project of delivering 200 units of such helicopters and localizing their production in India
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Russia Signs Contract with Uzbekistan to Deliver 10 Mi-35 Helicopters
March 29, 2018 @ 12:53 PMUzbekistan has signed a contract to purchase 10 Russian-built Mi-35 helicopters, deputy head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Drozhzhov told TASS at the ArmHiTec exhibition on Thursday. "Weve got a delivery contract for Mi-35 helicopters signed in accordance with the agreements
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Chinese Research Lab Develops Military Vehicle Driver Sensor System
March 28, 2018 @ 11:13 AMChinese researchers are developing a smart, real-time sensing system for the military vehicles to enable smooth movement at night without lighting or in changeable lighting, local media reports. The researchers at the Second Academy of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation told Science and Technology Daily on Tuesday that an intelligent sensor underdevelopment has a microchip a few centimeters in size that empowers the system to realize accurate real-time sensing of the driving environment
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China’s New Aircraft Carrier Getting Ready for Sea Trials
March 28, 2018 @ 06:17 AMChina's first locally built carrier, the Type 001A, is undergoing preparations for its first sea trial, with the scaffolds on the carrier completely removed and a phased array radar installed. "All the equipment and devices on the carrier are in the joint debugging stage, and the main engine has been powered
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Russian Ka-226T Helicopter Certified for Hot Weather Operation
March 21, 2018 @ 10:35 AMRussian Federal Aviation Agency (Rosaviation) has certified the Ka-226T helicopter as fit for operation at high temperatures. The certification makes it possible to start exporting the helicopters to countries with the hot climate
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Syrian Su-24 Shot Down By Rebels In Qalamoun Mountains
March 19, 2018 @ 10:12 AMRebels in Qalamoun Mountains have claimed to have shot a Syrian Su-24 fighter jet, Free Syrian Army reported. The moment of Su-24 falling was filmed and posted on Twitter
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