Russian-built Buk-M3 medium-range air defense missile system will get a new cutting-edge missile that will further boost the capability of the system. "The self-propelled systems transport and firing boxes are designed to hold six missiles
Artec, a joint venture between Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall has won a contract worth EUR 476 million to provide the German Bundeswehr with 131 high-protection vehicles of Boxer type. The order commissioned by the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), is due to deliver the Boxer vehicles between 2017 and 2020
China has installed a next generation flight data recorder (FDR) also known as the ‘black box with high invulnerability performance on its Peoples Liberation Army (PLA)s military aircraft. China will also use the new FDR in civil aviation and relevant industrial sectors in China, ChinaMil reported quoting unnamed sources as saying Thursday
Air bus Helicopters has delivered the worlds first H145 helicopter in law enforcement configuration to German State Police of Baden-Württemberg. The aircraft is the first of an order of six to be handed over to the launch customer, the company announced today
Russian Helicopters will continue to provide maintenance of TV3-117 engines, VR-252 gearboxes, AI-9 power plants and on-board equipment for Ka-32 helicopters flown by South Korean operators. Maintenance work will be client-certified in compliance with South Korean regulations, Russian Helicopters announced today
Rheinmetall has offered the latest BOXER 8x8 Cavalry Reconnaissance Vehicle, Lance Turret and Northrop Grumman C4ISR Architecture to Australia. The company announced Thursday that it has submitted a bid in response to the Australias LAND 400 Phase 2 - Mounted Combat Reconnaissance Capability request for tender
US defense secretary announced $75 million funding to help a consortium of 162 companies to develop wearable technology to be worn by soldiers or molded onto the skin of an aircraft. Ashton Carter speaking at NASAs Ames Research Center Friday said, “Funding for the Obama administration's newest manufacturing institute would go to the FlexTech Alliance, a consortium of 162 companies, universities and other groups, from Boeing, Apple and Harvard, to Advantest Akron Polymer Systems and Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Russian Aviadvigatel will showcase one of the PD-14 test engines at the MAKS-2015 airshow. The indigenous fifth-generation engine for the Russian short and medium haul MS-21 aircraft uses composites as materials
Local manufacturing of fighter and reconnaissance aircraft is not on the indigenization agenda of the Indian Navy for the next 15 years. India has a huge requirement of carrier borne fighter aircraft as it is building its indigenous aircraft carrier and has another bigger carrier on the drawing board besides a steadily growing requirement for maritime surveillance planes
Indian Navys new time bound indigenization plan for 2015-2030 has a list of products ranging from surface-to-air missiles for warships to air independent propulsion system for submarines. The list proposed in the ‘Indian Naval Indigenization Plan 2015-2030′ is divided into three segments that make up a warship- float, move and fight