Russia is currently developing Ship-based unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for its Navy and also planning to produce 100 Navy aircraft by 2020. "One of prospective directions for specialists of leading design bureaus is research and design aimed at creating an unmanned ship-based aircraft," the Russian naval aviation chief, Maj
MBDA Germany has carried out trials of new Laser Weapon System (LWS) demonstrator designed to test its beam guidance and tracking system in a sequence of simulated engagements of airborne targets. The trials were conducted at the Bundeswehr's military training ground at Putlos on the Baltic Sea from 4-14 October
Indian Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has rejected three Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals in the defense manufacturing sector. The three defence manufacturing companies that had their FDI proposals rejected include Harris Communications Systems India, Schoeller Technologies India and Barracuda Camouflage, a subsidiary of Swedish Saab
South Koreas government has refused to provide the countrys detailed map to Google due to “Security concerns”. The joint committee led by transport ministry and IT, foreign affairs, unification, defense, administration and trade ministries reached decision
Donald Trumps election victory is likely to pressurize the Canadian government to boost its defense spending and to reconsider its participation in US missile defense shield, military analysts in Canada predict. Further the victory could affect some of the Canadas high-profile missions in Eastern Europe, said Department of National Defence officials in Ottawa, who are working, analyzing about Trump presidency
Raytheon is partnering with Logos Technologies for delivering advanced multi-intelligence, or multi-INT, sensor systems to address challenging intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) requirements. The new sensor system will allow military ISR operators to use multi-sensor data to detect, recognize and identify hard-to-find targets across wide areas and in near-real time without extensive post-mission processing
The Indian ministry of defense has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to procure approximate 12 High Power Radars (HPRs). According to the RFI issued on 26 September 2016, the MoD stated that the radars would be used for Air Defence Surveillance
Safran Helicopter Engines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Urban Aeronautics to address power system solutions to support the development of an entirely new platform family of internal rotor aircraft. The Cormorant (formerly AirMule) UAV demonstrator is already flying powered by an Arriel 1D driving two ducted-fans, the company said in a statement Wednesday
Russia is developing a new Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) that can penetrate the US missile shield. “Russia is carrying out active work on improving its means of overcoming the missile shield,” Russias Strategic Missile Force (SMF) Commander Sergey Karakayev was quoted as saying by
Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) has launched Osprey, the worlds first lightweight airborne surveillance radar to be built with no moving parts. The launch customer for the radar will be Norway, which has purchased Osprey as part of the countrys acquisition of 16 AW101 Helicopters for the NAWSARH programme (Norway All Weather Search And Rescue Helicopter)