Rosoboronexport has signed contracts worth over $4.5 billion with 15 countries in 2025, but focusing on the development and modernization of military equipment, its CEO Alexander Mikheyev
Israel has tested 20 new counter-drone technologies, including guns, missiles, and UAV interceptors, in a large-scale defense trial aimed at neutralizing unmanned aerial threats. The tests, led by the Ministry of Defense (IMOD) Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D), featured major defense firms and startups competing to develop next-generation drone defense systems
A scene in the 2022 Hollywood movie “Topgun: Maverick” which shows the hero, Tom Cruise involved in a dogfight with a Su-57 stealth fighter was inspired by actual maneuvers that the latest Russian stealth fighter jet has been performing. Sergey Bogdan, the 60 year old senior test pilot of the Su-57 said that he and his team had developed a maneuver where the plane rapidly accelerates vertically, remains stationary in the air for a few seconds and then spirals down to a certain altitude before leveling off is reproduced in the famous dogfight scene in the Hollywood movie, Topgun: Maverick
The domestically developed 1,000-horsepower diesel engine for the K9 self-propelled howitzer has
L3Harris Technologies has introduced
Rosoboronexport presented the Pantsir-S1M air defense missile gun, the latet version of the Pantsir at Aero India 2025 hose improved features include longer distance and higher altitude. The Pantsir-S1M can engage targets at a range of 1,200 to 40,000 meters and at altitudes ranging from 15 to 18,000 meters
The European Defence Agency (EDA) has initiated a research project called
Russias United Engine Corporation (UEC) has supplied 18 AL-55E engines to Indias HJT-36 aircraft project whose upgraded version, “Yashas” was unveiled at Aero India 2025. The AL-55E engine as was developed specifically for the Indian single-engine trainer aircraft HJT-36, project
Indias Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has revealed its all-new Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for the Su-30MKI upgrade program marking a major leap in the countrys ability to develop radar technology. A model of the radar, “Virpaksha” is being displayed for the first time to the public at the Aero India 2025 event in Bangalore
Booms demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, successfully completed its first supersonic flight on January 28, 2025, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California. This marks the worlds first independently developed supersonic jet and the first one made in America