Shareholders of the Russian state-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) approved the merger of two subsidiary aircraft manufacturing companies, JSC Sukhoi Company and JSC RAC MiG, into UAC. The majority of shareholders voted for the reorganization of UAC in the form of joining Sukhoi and MiG to it during an extraordinary meeting of shareholders held on January 17, 2022
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Indian state-run firm Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) has signed contracts to export its Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv aircraft to Mauritius. “In-line with the government's vision to boost defense exports, HAL signed a contract with Mauritius for export of one Advanced Light Helicopter," the company posted on its official Twitter account on January 19
In an informal meeting of the EU foreign and defense ministers held in Brest on 12 and 13 January, the officials decided to adopt the “Strategic Compass” by March 2022. Europes “Strategic Compass” proposes a number of initiatives to enable the European Union to act in the security and defense domain and confront the many challenges impacting European interests
Philippine Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenzana has announced that the country will order 32 S-70i Black Hawk helicopters for more than $620 million. The government last year completed an order of 16 S-70i helicopters to replace the Air Force's fleet of Bell UH-1Hs, commonly known as the Huey, after fatal accidents
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Thales launched TrustNest Restricted, Frances first and only private cloud platform approved to handle "restricted level" information, on Thursday. Frances chief of defence procurement, Joël Barre, recently visited Thaless Digital Factory for a demonstration of this first restricted level cloud solution and its secure videoconferencing, voice, messaging and document sharing services
NATO will soon sign an agreement with Ukraine to improve cyber cooperation between the two parties, after number of websites run by various Ukrainian government departments including the education ministry and the ministry of foreign affairs were knocked out on Friday. “In the coming days, NATO and Ukraine will sign an agreement on enhanced cyber cooperation, including Ukrainian access to NATOs malware information sharing platform
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will soon start testing unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) on par with human-piloted vehicles being built under the Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. The DARPA RACER programs goal is to develop and demonstrate autonomy technologies that enable unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to maneuver in unstructured off-road terrain at the limit of the vehicles mechanical systems and at, or beyond, human-driven speeds and efficiencies