The Pentagon has awarded $68 million worth contract to Lockheed Martin to support the restoration of the US Navys damaged guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald. Last June, the USS Fitzgerald collided with a merchant ship while transiting busy sea lanes outside Tokyo Bay after the junior officer in charge on the bridge disregarded standard navigational and maneuvering practices
MKU has signed a MOU with UAE-based EDIC Caracal at DefExpo 2018, for strategic co-operation to manufacture the advanced CAR817AR rifles in India. The Assault Rifle will be manufactured in India at MKUs proposed facility in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh under the ‘Make in India initiative of the government and will be offered to the Indian Army for their requirements
Indian Defense Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), Bharat Electronics (BEL) has unveiled new products during the ongoing Defense Exposition, DefExpo 2018. The PSU unveiled new products include 100 Mbps Radio, Secure Military Wireless Local Area Network, Multi-Function Hand Held Thermal Imager, Long Range Surveillance System, Chemical Agent Monitor (CAM), Multi-Purpose Reflex Weapon Sight, Long Range Surveillance System, Light Weight Composite Shelter, and Mine Field Recording System
AeroVironment, Inc. conducted successful maritime demonstration of a Puma-Switchblade automated sensor-to-shooter (S2S) capability from a US Navy Coastal Riverine Craft for increased mission autonomy to counter threats
Russian Kalashnikov plant in Venezuela will start full-fledged licensed production of AK-103 assault rifles by the end of 2019. The plant is planned to manufacture about 25,000 assault rifles annually
Russia has delivered the first regimental set of S-400 long-range anti-aircraft missile systems to China. "Two vessels have delivered the first regimental set of S-400s from the port of Ust-Lug, Leningrad Region, to China within the time limit established by the contract
Pakistan tested a cruise missile from an underwater dynamic platform mimicking a submarine-launch yesterday. This was the second successful test of the indigenously developed Submarine Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM) Babur having a range of 450 km
Naini Aerospace Limited (NAeL), Allahabad made its first delivery of 335 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and 28 Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) cable looms after being taken over by HAL as a subsidiary. R K Mishra, CEO (NAeL) presented the Certificate of Conformity of Aircraft and Helicopter Looms to M S Velpari, GM, LCA Tejas Division at a function held at its plant in Naini, Allahabad on March 27, 2018
AeroVironment, Inc. unveiled on Monday an upgraded Puma small unmanned aircraft system this week at the AUSA Global Force Symposium, which is now available for export orders
Ukraines state-owned defence holding, UkrOboronProm has successfully fulfilled the contract for supplying the main battle tanks "Oplot-T" to the Kingdom of Thailand. The batch of combat vehicles successfully passed the test in the presence of customers and will soon be sent to Thailand, the press release states