The defence acquisition council (DAC) has approved funding for the purchase of 111 multi-utility helicopters for the Indian Navy worth $3.2 billion, news agencies quoting top officials reported
Indonesia has ordered the Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System (NASAMS) an air defense system from Kongsberg under a $77 million contract that includes command posts, radars, launchers and radios. The NASAMS is a medium- to long-range air-defense system developed in partnership with Raytheon
Swedish aerospace company CybAero has signed an agreement with Skyworks Global, an American company that focuses on the design and development of high performance gyroplanes. Skyworks will provide CybAero with a perpetual license to their gyro technology intellectual property
Spain's state-owned shipbuilding company Navantia and US aerospace firm Lockheed Martin have signed a renewed Memorandum of Agreement to jointly explore mutually beneficial new business opportunities in the areas of surface ships and naval combat systems. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to recognize their history working alongside each other and to seal the renewed agreement, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin announced in a company news release
Airbus Defence & Space has beaten Japans Mitsubishi Electric and Canadian-U.S
Boeing and Near Earth Autonomy, a Pittsburgh-based company announced a partnership to explore products and applications in autonomous mobility for defence and civilian applications. Boeing also announced its investment in Near Earth Autonomy which will be through Boeing HorizonX Ventures
South Koreas largest airliner Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd has partnered with the US aerospace giant Boeing to cooperate on technology in upgrading the CH-47 Chinook helicopter, Yonhap reports
Leonardo, working in partnership with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency), has completed the rollout of its cyber monitoring and response service to a number of additional NATO headquarters. The service, called NATO Cyber Incident Response Capability – Full Operational Capability (NCIRC-FOC), sees a combined Leonardo and NCI Agency staff of around 200 computer security experts provide a rapid-response cyber defence capability, around the clock, to more than 70,000 NATO users around the world
Romanian Ministry of Economy and General Dynamics will manufacture armored vehicle, Piranha 5 in Bucharest. The signed documents by the Ministry of Economy and General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) are announcing a new sustainable strategic American-Romanian partnership that is in the interest of national security industry and armys development, the economy minister, Gheorghe Simon was quoted as saying by Business Review EU Friday
Defence ministers of the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a military grouping perceived as anti-NATO will hold an exercise in 2018 to enhance its combined air defence system. As discussed in the CIS Defence Ministers Councils session held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on October 12, the Regional Security 2018 computer command post exercise and other events are aimed to improve combat potential of the Joint CIS AD System, the ministry said in a statement