The Indian Navy will receive three new (undelivered) MH-60R helicopters formerly meant for the US Navy by the end of this year. “The US Navy has allowed us to leverage three helicopters from their inventory of brand new aircraft that have never been introduced into the fleet – in order to provide them to the Indian Navy so they can begin training on a more accelerated basis than might normally be possible,” Tom Kane, Director, Sikorsky Naval Helicopter Programs told
A laser weapon mounted on a US Navy warship (USS Portland) shot down a target drone during in the first at-sea test of the Navys high-energy laser weapon system. The test termed successful, took place off Pearl Harbor on May 16, U
Chinas Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) announced earlier today that it plans to commence sea-based flight tests of its new AG600 seaplane soon. The project team is working with related authorities in making plans on the first sea-based takeoff and landing test to be conducted in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, in the second half of this year
General Atomic Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has announced the first test flight of a metal 3D-printed part - a NACA inlet made in Titanium Ti6Al4V – on a SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft. “With the GE Additive AddWorks team, we were able not only to achieve our short term objective of qualifying the NACA inlet, but we also worked together on a number of additional application development and qualification efforts, which are continuing into 2020 and beyond,” said Elie Yehezkel, senior vice president of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for GA-ASI
The steel plate of the first of the four new Bâtiments Ravitailleurs de Force (BRF) – replenishment vessels – of the French Navy has been cut today during a ceremony held in the Chantiers de lAtlantique shipyard. The order for the construction of the four ships was notified in January 2019 to the temporary association of companies formed by Chantiers de lAtlantique and Naval Group
Chinese border defense troops have enhanced control measures in response to India's recent “construction of defense facilities across the border into Chinese territory” in the Galwan Valley region. “Since early May, India has been crossing the boundary line in the Galwan Valley region and entering Chinese territory
User testing of the three JF-17 Block II fighter jets is underway with Nigerian Air Force (NAF) pilots testing the aircraft in the Pakistan Aeronautics Complex (PAC). The first of the NAFs JF-17 Block II Thunder multi-role fighters with the serial number 2P 60 has been photographed on the ground with NAF pilots in them
The United States Navy has awarded Boeing $1.9 billion combined to supply Stand-off Land Attack Missile – Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) missiles to Saudi Arabia
The German Bundeswehr is taking delivery of Rheinmetall Fox/Fuch armored transport vehicles newly-configured to support Explosives and Ordnance Demolition (EOD) missions. “Unexploded ordnance, mines and improvised explosive devices pose a grave threat to troops deployed in harms way
The US State Department has approved Hungarys request to buy 60 AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAMER missiles, two spare AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAM-ER guidance sections and related equipment from Raytheon for $230 million. “The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Hungary of sixty (60) AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAMER missiles, and two (2) spare AIM-120C-7/C-8 AMRAAM-ER guidance sections and related equipment for an estimated cost of $230 million,” Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a statement today