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Eurofighter Signs Study Contracts to Infuse New Technology into Typhoon Fighter Aircraft
June 20, 2019 @ 08:16 AMEurofighter GmbH, EUROJET and NETMA (NATO Eurofighter & Tornado Management Agency), have signed €53.7 million contracts at the Paris Airshow 2019 to study improvement to communications, on-board systems and engine of the Typhoon combat aircraft
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Embraer, ELTA Systems To Develop New Airborne Early Warning Aircraft
June 18, 2019 @ 01:30 PMEmbraer and ELTA Systems, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement to develop next-generation P600 AEW (Airborne Early Warning) aircraft, based on the advanced Embraer Praetor 600 business jet, at the 53rd International Paris Air Show. The primary sensor of the P600 AEW is the IAI/ELTA 4th generation Digital Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar with integrated IFF capabilities
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Boeing To Supply Components For US Special Ops’ MH-47G Chinook Choppers
June 14, 2019 @ 07:06 AMBoeing has won a $30 million modification contract to supply components and parts in support of US Special Operations Commands MH-47G Chinook rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters are required to sustain US Special Operations Forces (SOF) heavy assault, rotary wing aircraft, to mitigate the impact of the MH-47G aircraft availability in light of increased SOF operational demands and to procure H-47 long-range, rotary wing aircraft under foreign military sales acquisition procedures for the United Kingdom (UK), the US Department of Defense said in a statement Thursday
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Boeing To Build Additional MH-47G Chinook Choppers For US Special Operations Command...
June 13, 2019 @ 10:33 AMBoeing has won a $194 million modification contract to renew-build six MH-47 Chinook helicopters and new-build another, for US Special Operations Command. The helicopters are required to sustain US Special Operations Forces (SOF) heavy assault, rotary wing aircraft and to mitigate the impact of the MH-47G aircraft availability in light of increased SOF operational demands, the US Department of Defense said in a statement Wednesday
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Thales Acquires AI-based Psibernetix Company
June 6, 2019 @ 09:44 AMFrench company Thales Group has acquired an Artificial Intelligence-based firm Psibernetix, the company announced Thursday. Psibernetix has developed aerial combat application named ALPHA based on AI for simulated air combat
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Belarus Unveils Berkut-3 UAV System With Tail-less Flying Wing Design
June 3, 2019 @ 10:06 AMBelarusian firm AGAT-Sistemi Upravlenia (AGAT Control Systems), a subsidiary of the state-owned Geoinformation Control Systems Holding, has unveiled “Berkut-3,” an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a tailless flying wing design. The UAV has a wingspan of 3 meters, maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 11 kg, and has the ability to carry a 2 kg payload
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Steel Cut for US Navy’s Columbia Class Ballistic Missile Submarine
May 24, 2019 @ 06:03 AMA plasma-burning machine cut the first steel plate that will be used to build Columbia (SSBN 826), the United States Navys lead ballistic missile submarine on Thursday. The event marked the first class of submarines that will be built using fully digital blueprints
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RAF to use Leonardo’s ‘BriteCloud55’ Expendable Active Decoy
May 23, 2019 @ 02:26 PMLeonardo has been contracted by the UK Ministry of Defence to support a series of trials in which the ‘BriteCloud 55 Expendable Active Decoy (EAD) will be deployed for operations with the Royal Air Force (RAF)s fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The first trial with Typhoon took place in April in the UK
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Pakistan To Receive Final Batch of JF-17 Block II Jets In June
May 18, 2019 @ 06:36 AMThe Pakistani Air Force is set to receive the final three JF-17 Block II Chinese-Pakistani stealth fighters at the end of June. The aircraft are part of an order placed by the PAF in late 2017 for an additional 12 platforms that are currently on the Aircraft Manufacturing Factory (AMF) final assembly line at PAC Kamra
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Rheinmetall Wins Follow-up Order From Brazil For Fieldguard 3 Measurement System
May 17, 2019 @ 10:35 AMThe Düsseldorf-based high-tech group Rheinmetall with its Swiss subsidiary Rheinmetall Air Defence has won an order for additional Fieldguard 3 military measurement systems, from an unspecified Brazilian defence contractor. Fieldguard is an active fire control system whose special sensors enable it to measure the trajectory of projectiles, thus assuring maximum precision when engaging targets
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Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
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