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Shareholders of the Russian state-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) approved the merger of two subsidiary aircraft manufacturing companies, JSC Sukhoi Company and JSC RAC MiG, into UAC. The majority of shareholders voted for the reorganization of UAC in the form of joining Sukhoi and MiG to it during an extraordinary meeting of shareholders held on January 17, 2022
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will soon start testing unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) on par with human-piloted vehicles being built under the Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. The DARPA RACER programs goal is to develop and demonstrate autonomy technologies that enable unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to maneuver in unstructured off-road terrain at the limit of the vehicles mechanical systems and at, or beyond, human-driven speeds and efficiencies
Rheinmetall will be equipping the German Federal Police and State-level public order police units with new special response vehicle, the ‘Survivor R.” In a statement Thursday, Rheinmetall said the procurement agency of Germanys Federal Interior Ministry contracted with the Düsseldorf-based technology group to supply a fleet of new all-terrain, protected multipurpose Survivor R special response vehicles, to be known as the “Sonderwagen 5”
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected 10 industry and university research teams for the Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form (ENVision) program. Current night vision (NV) systems are bulky and heavy, resulting in a significant torque on the wearers neck
Saab will be delivering MS20 Block 2 capability upgrades to Hungarys Gripen fighter aircraft which includes upgrading their radars, enhancing Link 16 functionality and enabling them to carry more weapons. On Thursday, Saab said the Hungarian Government Commissioner Office responsible for defence development and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) successfully completed the negotiations for the MS20 Block 2 capability upgrade to the Hungarian fleet of Gripen jets
Two Israeli Defense Force (IDF) pilots were killed when the Eurocopter AS565 Panther (Atalef) helicopter they were flying in crashed Monday night. The accident took place while the pilots were training off the coast of the northern city of Haifa
The first F-35B fighter jet operated by the U.S
The Indian Navy decommissioned INS Khukri, the first of the indigenously built Missile Corvettes, after 32 years of service in Visakhapatnam on Thursday. The corvette was built by the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders on 23 August 1989 and had the distinction of being part of both the Western and Eastern Fleets
The Raggruppamento Temporaneo di Impresa (RTI) consortium led by Fincantieri signed an agreement with Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR) to build the second Logistic Support Ship (LSS) for the Italian Navy. The LSS will be entirely built at the Castellammare di Stabia shipyard, with delivery scheduled for 2025