Keeping in mind the needs of India’s armed forces, Textron Systems will showcase variety of state-of-the-art technologies at DefExpo 2012 in New Delhi. Since 2010, India has been acquiring precision air-launched weapons including the Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) from Textron
Exercise SUDARSHAN SHAKTI, a joint exercise of Southern Army and South Western Air Command, has entered its crucial phase. The training was progressively structured to build on from the smallest unit upwards and today it is the entire Southern Army, which is being put through its paces in a simulated battlefield environment
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Teledyne Brown Engineering, Incorporated, Huntsville, Alabama under contract HQ0147-11-D-0015. The maximum ceiling value of this action is $595,000,000 in Research, Development, Test & Evaluation funds
Dassault Aviation, in cooperation with the Israeli company IAI, is offering a modified and evolved version of the Heron TP airframe. The development of the F-Heron TP will involve, in addition to Dassault Aviation, several French companies through value-added activities, which will generate jobs and incoming transfers of know-how
The Indian ministry of defence has begun seeking proposals from various stakeholders suggesting changes to the Defence Procurement Procedures(DPP) 2011 for incorporation in the 2012 edition. According to Indian media reports, the Indian Air Force has proposal that the validity of commercial bids which now stand at 19 months from the date of submission should be increased to 30 months from the date of the issue of the RFP
Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) will participate in the 8th International Exhibition on Aerospace, Defense and Civil Aviation, February 9-13, 2011 at the Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru, India
MathWorks today announced that Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) reduced by 50 percent the development time of its Prisma project, which tests and validates guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) strategies for advanced autonomous formation flying. SSC adopted Model-Based Design with MATLAB and Simulink to help model and simulate the GNC system, perform real-time closed-loop simulations, and generate production flight code
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MBDA Missile Systems have unveiled a small laser guided weapon developed with company funding at MBDA's U.S
Sagem (Safran group) has signed a contract with French defense procurement agency DGA to supply its new Remote Video Terminal (RVT) to units in the French army’s 61st Artillery Regiment deploying the SDTI Sperwer tactical drone. Developed and produced by Sagem, the RVT recently completed a year of very successful field trials by the French army