Raytheon has signed a MoU with Indias Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) to co-produce Stinger air defence missile components. “Our agreement with Tata Advanced Systems deepens our industrial partnership in India with a global technology leader and will expand the range of options and capabilities for US and coalition forces to achieve their missions,” said Duane Gooden, Raytheon Land Warfare Systems vice president in a statement today
Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra)-promoted Reliance Aerostructure and Dassault Aviation have formed Joint Venture known as 'Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited'. Eric Trappier, Chairman of Dassault Aviation France, will be the Chairman, and Anil D Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Group, will be the Co-Chairman of Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited DRAL
Indias Samtel Avionics has tied up with South Koreas Hanwha Systems to produce future technologies in Electronic Warfare and Missiles. Hanwha Systems, as a defense electronics company is capable of providing total solutions for ground, naval and air Command, Control, Communication, Computer & Intelligence (C4I), guided weapon, Electronic Warfare (EW) and future combat systems, the South Korean firm announced today
Despite Orbital ATKs lawsuit, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has gone ahead with its Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program by selecting Space Systems Loral (SSL) as its commercial partner for the program. DARPA and SSL seek to develop technologies that would enable cooperative inspection and servicing of satellites in geosynchronous orbit (GEO), more than 20,000 miles above the Earth, and demonstrate those technologies on orbit, DARPA said in a press statement Thursday
Boeing has established a local operating entity Boeing Defense India (BDI) that will support the companys future growth in the country in the areas of services and support, sales and marketing, sourcing, manufacturing and engineering. Pratyush Kumar, president, Boeing India, will lead BDI and the expansion of the Boeing Global Services organization in India
Airbus which was single bidder in a 2013 Indian MoD RFP to sell medium military transport planes continues to be hopeful to bag the multi-million dollar contract. “As part of the Avro replacement programme of the Ministry of Defence (India), Airbus will support Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) in setting-up a final assembly line for the C295W in India, once the contract is awarded
India has held many discussions to sell its indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile and supersonic Bramhos missile to Vietnam. India and Vietnam share a strategic partnership
The board of directors of Russian conglomerate Rostec will consider the sale of a 26 percent stake minus one share in weapons maker Kalashnikov to two private investors, Andrei Bokarev and Alexei Krivoruchko. Rostec announced Friday that it has agreed to sell off a stake in Kalashnikov as part of an overhaul of the producer of the AK-47 assault rifle
German military's first NH90 medium class military helicopters arrived in Mali as part of its largest military mission abroad currently. An additional 300 German soldiers are deployed in Mali as part of the European Unions (EU) training mission EUTM,
BAE Systems has appointed Nik Khanna as the Managing Director of its India operations with effect from 1st February 2017. Nik joins the Company from Raytheon where as Country President he led business development, marketing and strategy in India for the last four years