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Saab Ready To Invest In Gripen Jets, Missiles Manufacture In India

June 15, 2016 @ 01:13 PM

Saab is ready to invest in setting up manufacturing and training facilities for fighter jets and missiles in India. Saab is buoyed by the recent visit of India's Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha at the company's Linköping production plant in Sweden on 10 June this year
Liteye To Manufacture And Develop Counter-UAV System For Blighter Surveillance In North...

June 15, 2016 @ 10:55 AM

Blighter Surveillance Systems AUDS (Anti-UAV Defence System) team, a counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) has extended its partnership agreement with Liteye Systems for sales to include local manufacturing as well as local development and customisation of the AUDS platform in North America. Liteye Systems role as integration and support partner will include local manufacturing as well as development and customisation of the AUDS counter-UAS platform; AUDS mobile trailer platform developed by Liteye for rapid deployment purposes to support national security applications, the company said in a statement Tuesday
Raytheon Wins $54 Million Australian Weapon Sight For Land Forces Contract

June 14, 2016 @ 02:16 PM

Australia's Department of Defence has selected Raytheon to supply the ELCAN Specter DR 1-4x dual role weapon sight for $54 million. The ELCAN Specter dual field-of-view (1X and 4X) sight will replace the ADF's standard 1
South China Sea Dispute: Chinese Vessels Prevents Filipino Flag Planting At Panatag

June 14, 2016 @ 01:46 PM

The territorial row in South China Sea has further escalated with an incident where Chinese coast guard vessels prevented members of a Filipino nationalist youth group from planting a Philippine flag on a rocky outcrop at the Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal last Sunday. The incident between the Chinese and the Kalayaan Atin Ito movement (Freedom Its Ours) took place as the country was commemorating Independence Day and just as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian countries and China were preparing for a meeting in Kunming to discuss territorial rows in the hotly contested South China Sea, The Philippine Star reported
Lockheed Martin Partners With Interset For Threat Detection Solutions

June 14, 2016 @ 01:10 PM

Lockheed Martin has entered into a commercial cyber partnership with Intersets insider threat detection solution during the 2016 Gartner Risk and Security Summit conference in National Harbor, Md. “Insider Threats pose one of the highest risks to an organization, and thefts by malicious insiders are projected to double by 2017, approaching half a trillion dollars annually,” said Angie Heise, vice president, Lockheed Martin Commercial Cyber
India Eyes Germany For Torpedoes After Blacklisting Finmeccanica

June 14, 2016 @ 05:30 AM

The Indian defense ministry is now looking towards Germany to buy torpedoes for its six under-construction Scorpene submarines. Defence Secretary G Mohan Kumar is on a three-day visit to Germany where he will be exploring the option of getting Seahake torpedoes for the submarines
Thales Eyes India For Its New Medium Scale Drones

June 13, 2016 @ 11:41 AM

Thales is eyeing India as a potential market for its new medium scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Thales is confident that its new mini UAV SpyRanger, being built with a French mid-tier company ‘Aviation Design, will find inroads into the Indian market, the company said Sunday
Russia To Resolve Supply Of Three Frigates To India By Year End

June 10, 2016 @ 01:38 PM

Russia hopes to resolve the unfinished sale the patrol ships to India by year end. Russia could not be supply all the six frigates to India as per the deal as Ukraine stopped supply of engines for the frigates after ties with Kiev plummeted
Denmark Parliament Approves $3 Billion Order For 27 Lockheed Martin F-35 Fighter

June 10, 2016 @ 01:21 PM

The Denmark parliament has approved a $3 billion order of 27 F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. Lawmakers agreed to buy 27 F-35 Joint Striker Fighter jets, with total costs for the lifespan of the deal, assuming some planes last as long as 30 years, set at 55 billion kroner, Henrik Dam Christensen, defense speaker for the opposition Social Democrats was quoted as saying by
Alenia Aermacchi, Sukhoi Joint Venture To Support MC-21, Sukhoi Superjet 100 Aircraft

June 10, 2016 @ 07:53 AM

Superjet International (SJI), a joint venture between Italian Alenia Aermacchi and Russias Sukhoi will be responsible for marketing, sales, customization and delivery of the SSJ-100 aircraft will also be used for after-sales service of MC-21. “The infrastructure, which is now being created in the framework of the Sukhoi Superjet 100, will also be used for the MS-21 project: warehouses, training centers, logistics, partners all over the world, maintenance centers, and the material base

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