AVIC Aviation Techniques (a subsidiary of state-owned AVIC) is steadily becoming the face of Chinas military industrial growth. With its 10 subsidiaries and two listed companies, the company is responsible for R&D, pre-research, sales, services, manufacture, maintenance and cooperation of UAV, fighter and guided weapons
Raytheon has won a contract with the U.S
India's first air-to-air Astra missile is finally back on track now after a long delay due to technical glitches. The beyond visual range (BVR) missile, with an eventual strike range of over 100km, will be fired for the first time from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter this year
Lockheed Martin team laid the keel for the U.S
Russia has delivered the third and final frigate built for the Indian Navy, Rosoboronexport officials said. The Trikand missile frigate was handed over to the Indian crew at the Yantar shipyard in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad yesterday
Israeli weapon system may be offered to the package of the MC-27J aircraft equipped with a 30 mm gun, according to Defense-Update. The planned gunship variant of the C-27J will undertake the first test firings of its 30mm cannon while slaved to an electro-optical/infrared sensor at the end of this year or early 2014
France plans to buy as many as 16 MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) officials told Congress. The Reapers are included in a potentially $1
CAE today announced it has won approximately C$100 million worth of military contracts from customers in more than 15 countries. They include a contract to design and manufacture a CAE 3000 Series AW139 full-flight simulator for Coptersafety, a foreign military sale contract from the United States Navy to provide KC-130R aircrew and maintenance training services to the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, and a contract from Havelsan to provide the CAE Medallion-6000 image generator for T-129 attack helicopter full-mission simulators, according to an official statement
The next big global defence company to rival Lockheed Martin or EADS could well come from China if the ambitions of the state-owned Aviation Industries Corporation of China (AVIC) are realized. The AVIC rounded out last weeks Paris Air Show 2013 with significant interest shown in its military and civil aircraft by visiting air force officials and industry executives
Alenia Aermacchi has teamed with Italy MoD to define the operational specifications for a new jet trainer. The agreement was signed at the Paris Air Show last week, for the collaboration on the development of a new basic-advanced trainer, the M-345 HET (High Efficiency Trainer) and is expected to enter service by 2017-2020