Russia has turned down Turkeys request to have an access to the internal systems of the S-400 Triumph air-defense system, a Russian news agency reported. According to Gazeta
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced Monday that its newly developed unmanned helicopter, the Air Hopper, has successfully completed a proof of concept for the Israeli military. The Air Hopper took part in a demonstration that covered two scenarios, one simulating carrying a seriously-wounded soldier to a extraction point for life-saving treatment, airborne monitoring of vital signs and real-time dispatch to the ground
The senior leaders of the United States Air Force discussed alternative methods of aviator training and requirement initiatives to address shortage of over 1500 pilots in its aircrew units that has left Americas aerial warfighting branch scrambling to find a way to stop decline in skilled aviators. The 2017 Aircrew Summit held on September 22 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, had air force senior leaders from the headquarters, major commands and other experts discussed strategies, plans and initiatives falling under the ACTFs seven lines of effort: requirements, accessions, production, absorption, retention, sortie production and industry collaboration
Macro Industries is being awarded a $28 million contract for a maximum of 200 sets of panels and hardware for a light-weight floor ballistic protection system for the V-22 Osprey aircraft. Work is expected to be completed in December 2022, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Monday
Rafale International met up with over 100 French small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to encourage investment and set up of production activities in India in the frame of the Rafale offset program under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Make-in-India drive. During two-days Business to Business events held with Indian officials that took place in Paris on the 19 Sept along with the GIFAS, the French Aerospace Industries Association, business opportunities aimed at enhancing the ties between the French and the Indian Aerospace communities in order to define cooperation domains between both industries and pave the way towards building up an aero-defence manufacturing...
The US Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $45.5 million contract to provide Military Code (M-Code) Early Use (MCEU) capability to the Global Positioning System (GPS)
Thales has unveiled a new generation ambidextrous and NATO interoperable military assault rifle, the F90MBR – Modular Bullpup Rifle. The F90MBR is the new generation of the F90 assault rifle, currently in service with the Australian Defence Force, the company said in a statement Tuesday
Bell Helicopter is preparing for initial ground run of its V-280 Valor after it achieved 100 percent build completion on the prototype aircraft. This is a clean sheet tiltrotor, applying lessons learned from previous generations of tiltrotor to create groundbreaking simplicity and deliver transformational, affordable technology to alter the course of vertical flight, the company said in a statement Wednesday
China has started a training program to prepare a new generation of pilots to fly the J-20 jet fighter and Yun-20 transport aircraft. More than a thousand new cadets have been inducted into China's Air Force Aviation University
US files that contain personal information of military and intelligence personnel were exposed for public download for more than a year on a misconfigured cloud server. However, it was discovered earlier this year