Russian Helicopters will display the newly developed Mi-171Sh-VN advanced military transport helicopter at next week's MAKS-17 show. The Mi-171Sh-VN is the new version of the Mi-8/17 military transport helicopter; its main features being extensive armoring and weaponry
The US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has selected BAE Systems to provide new electronic warfare (EW) systems for its fleet of AC/MC-130J aircraft. BAE Systems will upgrade the aircrafts survivability equipment with the capability to detect, identify, locate, deny, degrade, disrupt, and defeat various threats that aircrews encounter in hostile and challenging environments, the company said in a statement Wednesday
Cohort EID has signed a 7.5 million Euro contract with the Portuguese Ministry of Defence to provide software-defined digital multiband, multirole, and multimode tactical PRC-525 radio systems for the Portuguese Army
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently flight tested an unmanned quadcopters to demonstrate autonomous flight without the aid of human operators or global positioning systems. DARPA announced last week that Phase 1 of its Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program concluded a series of obstacle-course flight tests in central Florida, flying quadcopters autonomously through cluttered buildings and obstacle-strewn environments at fast speeds (up to 20 meters per second, or 45 mph) using onboard cameras and sensors as “eyes” and smart algorithms to self-navigate
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the 15th and final H145M multi-role helicopter equipped with a fast roping system to transport special forces, to Bundeswehr. The Bundeswehrs H145M LUH SOF helicopters are equipped with a fast roping system to transport special forces, camera system for reconnaissance, as well as equipment for fire support during deployment, enabling special forces to use the helicopters in a wide variety of new fields, the company announced Monday
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencys (DARPA) last week announced its latest program that aims to develop advanced battle management, command and control tools and a comprehensive interactive virtual environment to test novel concepts for future expeditionary combat operations. The program, dubbed Prototype Resilient Operations Testbed for Expeditionary Urban Scenarios (PROTEUS), seeks to deliver a software platform for use on a tablet or other personal device that would enable dynamic and adaptive composition of battlefield elements—including dismounted forces, vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), manned aircraft, and other available assets—simultaneously across multiple command levels as the fight is evolving, the press...
The US Navy has awarded multiple contracts estimated $492 million to four US firms - DRS Laurel Technologies, Leidos, SAIC and Serco Inc., for Automated Digital Network System (ADNS)
Thales will unveil its Ground Fire family, a range of latest-generation multifunction ground radar at Paris Air show 2017 starting this week. The radar system, which is fully digital, will carry out air defence and surveillance missions simultaneously
A drone likely belonging to North Korea shot 10 photographs of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system deployed in South Korea. An analysis of the drone showed that it had technology from the 1960s and hence was not capable of transmitting the photos to its handlers, a report in Korea Herald said
Germany is eyeing to use face recognition technology and gaining access to chat services like WhatsApp in order to track militants. “New security measures will be taken to combat terrorism, including the use of face recognition technology to track the movements of terrorists”