Google uses a legal loophole to piggyback on NASA to test drones in US airspace as it exempts the company from federal aviation regulations. The partnership with NASA will enable Google to test its commercial drones dodging the federal aviation regulations, the Guardian reported Wednesday
Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) have handed over the Puma infantry fighting vehicle to the German Bundeswehr today. The Bundeswehrs fielding of the Puma IFV gives its mechanized infantry a new main weapons system that will gradually supersede the Marder, first introduced over forty years ago
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced on Sunday that recently it has completed a series of flight demonstrations of its HAROP Loitering Munitions in Israel. The demonstrations follow various other successful operational exercises performed in the last few months
Exelis and Leidos have been selected to continue to evolve advanced technology development for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Adaptive Radar Countermeasures (ARC) program, Exelis said in a statement Today. The five-year subcontract from Leidos could be worth up to $15
Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (KRET), a part of the Rostec, will introduce modern radio-electronic solutions for the Indian Air Force at Aero India 2015 The foreign partners are to become familiar with the latest achievements in a field of the identification friend or foe, special electronics, electronic systems for aviation and radio-electronic solutions within the Russian stand,. The Concern is ready to export both the latest complexes for EW solutions and the latest avionics
Europe has planned to launch a car-sized experimental wingless space plane on a 100-minute unmanned mission, AFP reported Feb 5 2014. The European Space Agency's two-tonne, 5m-long Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) is scheduled to be blasted into space on a Vega rocket from a space pad
A radar network for coastal security has been operationalized on the mainland, Indian Navy stated while submitting its response to the Bombay High Court in response to a public interest litigation filed by an NGO Association for Aiding Justice. Setting up of radar sensors on the island territories is also now nearly completed, Indian Navy was quoted as saying by The Indian Express
Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) a division of Environmental Tectonics Corporation ETC announced today that it signed a contract with the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) to provide a fifth spatial disorientation flight simulator. The AFLCMC selected ETC's GYRO IPT II (Integrated Physiological Trainer) to fulfill the requirements of their new Spatial Disorientation (SD) Training System Program
Lockheed Martin announced Tuesday that it has delivered a command control battle management and communications (C2BMC) software upgrade for the US Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center (MDIOC). The software, Spiral 8
Raytheon announced Monday that its Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) software successfully tracked a simulated Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) target. The AAW target tracking was demonstrated using the working software for the US Navy during a recent Software Build Review