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Textron Systems To Integrate Unmanned Vehicles to Littoral Combat Ships
May 3, 2019 @ 10:53 AMAAI Corp., a subsidiary of Textron Systems has won a $20 million modification contract to integrate Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) onto the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)
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Black River Systems To Supply Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems To The USAF
May 3, 2019 @ 10:24 AMBlack River Systems has won a $88.7 million contract to supply operational counter-small unmanned aircraft systems (s-UAS) open systems architecture software/hardware systems to the US Air Force
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US Strategic Drone, Aircraft Spotted In Ukraine: Report
May 3, 2019 @ 07:35 AMAircraft and strategic drone belonging to the United States (US) have been conducting reconnaissance operations close to Russian borders in Ukraine, several reports have claimed. An online aircraft monitoring resource PlaneRadar stated that at least three American reconnaissance aircraft were spotted near Russias southern and western borders on May 1- the RQ-4B Global Hawk drone, Boeing RC-135V and the P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft
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Schiebel To Suppy Norway With UAVs for Arctic Deployment
May 2, 2019 @ 09:10 AMSchiebels CAMCOPTER S-100 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Air System (UAS) has been selected by Norways Andøya Test Center to carry out extensive search and rescue trials as part of the Arctic 2030 project. According to the company, the CAMCOPTER S-100 in its typical configuration can operate for six hours continuously
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China Develops Heat-resistant Material for Hypersonic Aircraft
April 29, 2019 @ 12:16 PMChina has developed a new heat-resistant material for hypersonic aircraft capable of enduring over 3000 degree Celsius caused from friction within the Earth's atmosphere. The new material enables a hypersonic aircraft to fly at Mach 5-20 within the atmosphere for several hours, as the high heat resulting from the friction between the aircraft and the air reaches between 2,000- 3,000 degree Celsius
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Scarcity of Spares Grounds F-35s for 30 Percent of the time .
April 27, 2019 @ 01:58 PMA report released on Thursday by the General Accounting Office (GAO) stated that F-35s were unable to fly 30 per cent of the time because of shortages and mismatched parts. The study was done considering the time period of May to November
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Iran Announces Development of Three Helicopter-borne Missiles
April 26, 2019 @ 03:49 PMIran's Ministry of Defense and the Army Aviation have developed three new missiles with range over kilometers to be mounted on the militarys attack helicopters, with a view to their mass-production in near future. The missiles are respectively dubbed Heidar, Qamar-e Bani Hashem, and the airborne version of the Dehlaviyeh armor-piercing missile, Fars News Agency reported on Thursday
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US To Draft Treaties To Control Military Growth Of Russia, China
April 26, 2019 @ 10:39 AMThe United States is planning to draft new arms control treaties imposing new limits on Russia's nuclear arsenal and placing unprecedented limits on and verifying China's program, according to a report published Thursday. US President Donald Trump also unilaterally withdrew the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a ballistic missile pact with Russia that was intended to limit the possibility of nuclear war in Europe, according to the report by The Washington Post
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Rosboronexport Reaches Record Growth In First Quarter Of 2019
April 26, 2019 @ 08:22 AMIn what could be a record arms sales for Russia, the country's state-run Rosoboronexport has signed contracts worth $5.2 billion and its order book has reached $52 billion in the first four months of 2019
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Turkey To Unveil Its First Electric Armored Vehicle At IDEF-2019
April 25, 2019 @ 11:15 AMTurkish firm Otokar has developed a new electric armored vehicle christened “Akrep II” that will be unveiled at IDEF-2019 exhibition to be held between April 30 and May 3, 2019 in Büyükçekmece, Turkey. “It is the countrys first domestically developed electric-powered armored combat vehicle
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The Future of Combat: Miniaturized Laser Weapons Set to Replace Bullets and Missiles
Lasers may soon replace bullets, and drones could disable enemy UAVs with beams of light instead of missiles