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Rheinmetall, MBDA To Exhibit New Air Defense System At ILA Berlin Air...

June 2, 2016 @ 09:19 AM

Rheinmetall and MBDA will exhibit a new defense system concept for close- and very close-range protection against airborne threats for the first time at the ILA Berlin Air Show. This solution ensures highly mobile escort protection as well as immediate firing readiness, and integrates seamlessly in the German Tactical Air Defence System (taktisches Luftverteidigungssystem/TLVS) system architecture as a further possible element of integrated air defence
Leonardo-Finmeccanica To Start Deliveries Of AW101 SAR Helicopters To Norway From March...

June 1, 2016 @ 10:36 AM

Leonardo-Finmeccanica will start delivering AgustaWestland AW101 Norwegian All-Weather SAR helicopters in March 2017 and will complete by 2020. The company made the announcement after it unveiled the new SAR helicopter at its Yeovil facility in south-west England Wednesday
Lockheed Martin Sees A Partner In Tata For India’s F-16 Flagship

May 26, 2016 @ 03:03 PM

Lockheed Martin is eyeing Tata Group as a potential partner for F-16 flagship in India. “Naturally we would gravitate to Tata,“ George Standridge, Lockheeds vice president for Aeronautics Strategy and Business Development was quoted as saying in an interview in New Delhi by
Ukraine To Market Diesel Powerpack As Upgrade To Its Existing Battle Tanks

May 23, 2016 @ 12:36 PM

Ukrainian State Enterprise
Russia Issues Tender For New Machine Guns

May 18, 2016 @ 02:12 AM

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched a tender for new machine guns intended for urban Close Quarter Battles (CQB). Tokar-2, the machine guns development program will be designed for elimination of hostile man and firepower during CQBs and for supporting Special Forces assault groups, according to the MIA`s official notification published at the state purchases web-site
Indian Air Force Su-30MKIs, Jaguars Shine in Red Flag Alaska Exercise

May 15, 2016 @ 03:55 PM

Su-30MKI fighters of the Indian Air Force (IAF) participated in offensive counter air ops in which they provided escort cover to the strike elements as part of the Red Flag Alaska 16-1 air exercise involving the Indian and US air forces. Apart from this, the IAF Jaguars DARIN II undertook integrated strike missions dropping practice bombs over the world renowned JPARC Air to Ground Range)
Bell Helicopter Joins Fuselage and Wings Of First V-280 Valor Tiltrotor

May 5, 2016 @ 08:42 AM

Bell Helicopter has successfully joined the V-280 Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) wing and nacelles to the aircraft fuselage. “The V-280 wing, nacelles and fuselage are now assembled into the aircraft weve designed as the next generation tiltrotor,” said Lisa Atherton, executive vice president of Military Business Development for Bell Helicopter
Pilot Error Caused Crash Of Russian MI-28N Helicopter

May 3, 2016 @ 08:59 AM

The crash of the Russian MI-28N helicopter earlier this month near Homs in Syria was due to human error, according to the investigation committee. RT website quoted a source at the committee as saying on Saturday that analysis of the two black boxes of the helicopter confirmed the committees preliminary conclusion that the helicopter crashed not because of a technical failure but due to pilot error, explaining that both pilots made an error while flying at night over a rugged area with no clear features, causing the helicopter to hit the ground and their death
Australian Air Force Implements PinPoint Tool Control Systems In Support Of New...

April 13, 2016 @ 08:24 AM

The Royal Australian Air Force has deployed 48 PinPoint Tool Control Systems from HABCO Industries, throughout their maintenance facility in support of their entire C-27J transport aircraft. The Pinpoint Tool Control System is a comprehensive product offering designed and developed by aviation professionals for use in all facets of the commercial and defence aerospace environments, to allow for the ultimate 100% solution in tracking predictability and accountability of tools, ground support and other devices
DARPA Demos Aircraft, UAV Collision Avoidance System

April 6, 2016 @ 08:11 AM

The US Defence Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has completed the first flight tests of the integrated sense-and-avoid (SAA) system that is designed to enable manned and unmanned aircraft to automatically detect nearby aircraft and avoid potential mid-air collisions. An unmanned air vehicle (UAV) repeatedly used the technology demonstration system to detect and track in real time a Cessna 172G aircraft approaching from various vertical and horizontal distances

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