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L-3 Oceania Wins $307 Million To Supply Night Vision Goggles, Helment Mounts...

October 28, 2016 @ 02:49 PM

L-3 Oceania has been awarded contracts worth $307 million for the supply of night vision goggles, helmet mounts, head harnesses and laser aiming devices to Australian Defense Forces. The Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP and the Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne today announced the project has been given the green light, Australian Department of defense said in a statement Friday
Indonesia Trains Marines Corps With Ukrainian BTR-4 APCs

October 18, 2016 @ 01:00 PM

Indonesia has commenced training its Marines Corps (KORMAR) with amphibious BTR-4 8x8 armored personnel carriers (APCs), acquired recently from Ukraine. The training will be held from 14 to 24 October at Kormar base in South Jakarta, IHS Janes reported Monday
Bradley AFV Has Suspension, Turret, Sensors, Connectivity Upgrades

October 4, 2016 @ 09:43 AM

BAE Systems next-generation Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicle has suspension, turret, sensors and connectivity upgrades. The company is debuting a Bradley Fighting Vehicle demonstrator at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual meeting in Washington, D
Israeli Firms Could Lose $10 Billion Business Under New US Defence Aid

September 21, 2016 @ 08:01 AM

Israeli defense companies could lose $10 billion in business due to a new US military aid package that will phase out the countrys ability to spend a quarter of the funds on its own businesses. The US has signed an agreement to provide $38 billion military assistance to Israel for a span of 10 years starting 2019 through 2028
DARPA Aims To Revolutionize Situational Awareness with Thinking Imaging Sensors

September 19, 2016 @ 01:00 PM

US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is aiming to develop a software‐configurable array that enables simultaneous and distinct imaging modes in different readout integrated circuits. “What we are aiming for,” said Jay Lewis, program manager for Reconfigurable Imaging (ReImagine), “is a single, multi-talented camera sensor that can detect visual scenes as familiar still and video imagers do, but that also can adapt and change their personality and effectively morph into the type of imager that provides the most useful information for a given situation
Danish Army Selects Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s Vehicle Mission Systems

September 7, 2016 @ 04:06 PM

Leonardo-Finmeccanica has signed a contract with the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) to provide Vehicle Mission Systems for the Danish Armys land vehicles. Based on the Leonardo solution, developed to be fully compliant to the very latest Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) technology, systems will be fitted on several platforms including the newly procured Piranha V APC, new Armoured Patrol Vehicles, Wisent engineering vehicles, Leopard II MBTs and CV90 IFVs, the company said in a statement Wednesday
Taiwanese Patton Tank Plunges Into River, 3 Soldiers Killed

August 17, 2016 @ 10:56 AM

Three Taiwanese soldiers died and one got severely injured after the one of the nation's M48 Patton main battle tank lost balance and fell into a river in while returning to its base. The driver said, he was trying to take a right turn but the left track got stuck while the right track operated normally and fell into a Wangha river in Pingtung County
Israel unveils New 8X8 Armored Personnel Carrier ‘Eitan’

August 3, 2016 @ 07:08 AM

Israel has unveiled a new 8-wheeled home-grown armored personnel carrier, ‘Eitan. The multi-purpse APC will replace Israels ageing M1113 fleet
UTC Aerospace Flight Trials New Pulse Aircraft Health Monitoring System With USAF...

July 28, 2016 @ 11:11 AM

UTC Aerospace Systems is currently testing its new Pulse Health Monitoring System (HMS) to evaluate the airworthiness of sensing systems aboard the USAF's C-5 Galaxy aircraft. The Pulse HMS is a lightweight, scalable vehicle health management system designed to enable real-time evaluation of an aircraft's condition
NASA To Test ‘X-57’ Hybrid Electric Research Plane

June 18, 2016 @ 08:38 AM

NASA will test a new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane now designated the X-57 and nicknamed “Maxwell” - a hybrid electric research plane equipped with 14 electric propeller-turning motors located along the wings. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden highlighted the agencys first X-plane designation in a decade during his keynote speech Friday in Washington at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) annual Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, commonly called Aviation 2016

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