Taiwan Seeks Asymmetric Weapons Against Possible Chinese Invasion The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense is to obtain three asymmetric warfare weapons for the army and air force besides the navys program to develop small fast-attack missile boats as defence against a possible Chinese invasion. The army is to be given medium-range anti-tank missiles and a ground mobile minelayer system, and the air force is to be given a new gun-based close-in weapons system, an anonymous sources was quoted as saying by the
Swedish UAV manufacturer `CybAero has filed for bankruptcy following its failure to sell 20 civilian drones to China which was expected boost the funding of the financially beleaguered firm. The filings were made with the Nasdaqs First North Sweden stock exchange on June 19 and show that the company had experienced significant declines in revenues, halting all trading in the companys shares on June 15 due to CybAeros uncertain financial position
Russias Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will test the new electric propulsion rocket engine operating on iodine this month end, TASS reports quoting the companys press office as saying. "The developers will hold the ground tests of the propulsion unit already in late June," project co-head and design engineer Pavel Shcherbina said
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $364.6 million sales contract for Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and Launching Assembly Service Life Extension program to US Army and Romania
The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) has released a photograph of Chinas second aircraft carrier equipped with an electromagnetic aircraft launch system. The photograph put up on companys WeChat-Chinese social media platform-account shows the aircraft carrier in the center and the Liaoning and Chinas first domestically developed Type 001A aircraft carrier on either side
Italy has shown interest in the future Franco-German battle tank by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Nexter Defence Systems (KNDS). The Italian military is interested in the future Franco-German battle tank KNDS, according to our information,
Kongsberg has received $65.5 million order from Lockheed Martin for deliveries of more than 150 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft structural parts
Russias Kalashnikov arms manufacturer is planning to build military defense systems with artificial intelligence that implies weapons self-learning, Industrial Director of the Rostec Conventional Armament, Ammunition and Special Chemistry Cluster Sergei Abramov said Wednesday. The need, prospects and expediency of creating and adapting artificial intelligence systems for military use do not evoke any doubts and all the leading countries are taking efforts for introducing artificial intelligence into existing and future weapons, he was quoted as saying by TASS at the conference tiled: "Digital Industry of Industrial Russia 2018
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Boeing has been awarded a $7 million contract for the Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) warhead arming devices remanufacture. This contract provides for the remanufacture of 94 ALCM warhead arming devices