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BAE Systems Wins Contract to Support New UK-Qatar Hawk Training Squadron
July 15, 2021 @ 04:51 AMBAE Systems won a six-year contract to deliver support and training to a new joint UK-Qatar Hawk squadron based at RAF Leeming, UK. The company will provide Qualified Flying Instructors as part of this contract, delivering both live and synthetic training to Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots
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U.S. Announces Program to Extract Rare Earth Elements from Domestic Sources to...
July 14, 2021 @ 10:30 AMThe Pentagons Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a program to extract Rare Earth Elements (RRE) from domestic sources using microbes, a process called ‘biomining. Success in the program will end American dependence upon China which is its single largest supplier of RREs
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Italy, UK Sign Contract for Mid-Life Upgrade of Aster Missiles
July 10, 2021 @ 07:33 AMItaly and the United Kingdom signed an agreement Friday to upgrade their Aster surface-to-air missiles. This strategic contract, which follows the Amendment 5 signed by OCCAR-EA in January 2020 on behalf of French armament procurement agency – DGA, will allow the five Services (FR, IT, UK Navy, IT Army and FR Air Force) of the three Programme Participating Nations (IT, UK, FR) to extend the operational availability of their ASTER missiles stockpile
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Singapore Airlines becomes First Carrier to Offer Live Onboard e-Shopping
July 9, 2021 @ 12:59 PMSingapore Airlines became the first airline to offer live e-shopping onboard via KrisShop. Singapore Airlines customers now have access to the worlds largest seatback shopping experience at 30,000ft
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Russian firm Starts Testing Parachute System to Air Drop Heavy Armored Vehicles
July 9, 2021 @ 12:32 PMRussias Technodinamika Group has started conducting preliminary trials of a parachute system meant to airdrop heavy armored vehicles - including the Typhoon vehicle weighing 18 tonnes – with personnsel inside. "We are carrying out a piece of very important experimental design work dubbed Parachute
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Turkey's ASELSAN & Safine Shipyard Start Production of New Naval Drones
July 9, 2021 @ 09:13 AMTurkish firms Aselsan and Safine Shipyard started the construction of two new naval drones – an Unmanned Anti-Submarine Warfare boat and an Unmanned Surface Vehicle - on Thursday. Both vessels are capable of reaching speeds of 40 knots and have a range of 600 nautical miles
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AeroVironment Introduces 'Crysalis' Ground Control Station for UAV
July 9, 2021 @ 04:18 AMAeroVironment unveiled Crysalis, a new ground control solution (GCS) that will provide command and control (C2) of compatible company unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their payloads. Crysalis is an integrated hardware and software-based ground control system built around three core elements – software, hardware, and antennas
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DARPA Selects Raytheon, BAE Systems, Northrop Teams to Develop Event-based Sensors
July 5, 2021 @ 07:11 AMThe U.S
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Paris Court Orders Probe into Rafale Jet Sale to India
July 3, 2021 @ 06:54 PMA court in Paris has ordered a probe by the National Financial Prosecutors Office into a 2016 deal to sell 36 Rafale figher jets to India by Dassualt Aviation. French investigative new website Mediapart reported July 2, 2021, “as confirmed to us by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (French acronym-PNF), the Paris court on June 14 opened a judicial investigation, entrusted to an examining magistrate, on the sale by France to India of 36 Rafale fighters
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Albania Approves Bayraktar TB2 Drone Purchase
July 2, 2021 @ 06:32 AMAlbanias parliament allocated an additional budget of more than €8 million for the procurement of Bayraktar TB2 drones from Turkey. The nod for such a contract came after Albanian Interior Minister Bledar Çuçi and military officials paid a visit to Turkey, Turkeys government-owned Anadolu Agency reported Thursday
U.K. Navy's New Drones Can Trick Sea Mines into Exploding Harmlessly
Turkey’s ASELSAN Demonstrates Laser Defense System Against Infrared-Guided Missiles
Russia Targets Patriot Battery in Kyiv as Germany Pushes for New U.S....
Dutch Intelligence: Russia Using WWI-Era Chemical in Ukraine
The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles
Four-legged Robots Vs. Military Dogs
Four legged robots that resemble dogs are increasingly being seen in war zones and exercises for functions such as reconnaissance...
Lockheed Martin Faces Billions in F-35 Cuts Under U.S. Policy Shift
Americas policy of controlling F-35 usage, spares, and maintenance—combined with President Donald Trumps threats of trade wars with Europe, halted...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
