Naval Group and Australian UNSW University have demonstrated a lightweight ship mast on which Radar and other sensitive material can be installed significantly cutting down on overall ship weight. "Naval Group Pacific and ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC) at UNSW Sydney, have demonstrated the structural applications of of a carbon composite material embedded with fibre optics in marine vessels," Naval Group said in a statement Thursday
Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter has completed 16 flights equipped with its new, powerful engine dubbed "Item 30." "Currently, the engineering bench tests of the advanced engine continue and the item is being tested on a flying laboratory
The United States approved the sale of 850 Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment 1 Block 1 (JCREW I1B1) Systems and related equipment worth $245 million to Australia, on Wednesday. “The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of up to eight hundred fifty (850) Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare Increment 1 Block 1 (JCREW I1B1) Systems and related equipment for an estimated cost of $245 million,” Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a
Turkey's armed drones can distinguish between men and women, and terrorists from civilians using artificial intelligence (AI) when specific characteristics are fed into it. "You provide the system with specific characteristics and it could memorize them after undergoing a machine learning process," Abdullah Cavusoglu, directorate general of Electronic Warfare Systems Engineering (EHSIM), a company established in 1998 that operates in the fields of electronic warfare and tactical command and control systems, told Anadolu Agency
The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin an agreement valued $7 billion to supply 114 F-35 stealth jets to the US, Australia, Norway and Italy. “Lockheed Martin is awarded a $7 billion modification to a previously awarded contract
Russia's Roscosmos will export engines to power Lockheed Martin's Atlas III and Atlas V launch vehicles, with the latter currently the only US-made launch vehicle capable of sending heavy payloads into orbit. Roscosmos subsidiary Energomash is preparing to deliver three more RD-180 engines for use with Atlas-5 launch vehicles, the company said in a statement Friday
DARPA has completed preliminary design review of a new ground-launched hypersonic weapons system being developed under Operational Fires (OpFires) program. OpFires aims to develop and demonstrate a ground-launched hypersonic weapon system to engage critical, time-sensitive targets in contested environments
Following mysterious airdrop of ammunition, grenades, rifles and fake currency in the Indo-Pakistan border state of Punjab on Sunday, Indias Border Security Force (BSF) has asked its troops to shoot down any drone intruding into Indian airspace. The BSF guards the 180km of the International Border (IB) with Pakistan along with the Indian army
BAE Systems will commence trial flights of a unique solar-powered UAV that can stay airborne for 1 year flying at 65000 feet, and work as a low-cost substitute for satellites delivering 5-G networks. The company announced today it had reached an agreement to acquire British SME, Prismatic Ltd which had done initial work on developing the solar-powered UAV called PHASA-35
After the debut of the export versions of Su-57 and Il-112 aircraft at the MAKS 2019 airshow, the export version of Korsar reconnaissance drone has been unveiled at the event. Korsar high altitude reconnaissance drone system, capable of flying at high altitudes, in excess of 5000 meters, was