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Russian Strategic Missile Forces To Get New Remote-Controlled Mine-Clearing Vehicles In 2020
January 9, 2018 @ 11:06 AMRussias Strategic Missile Forces are expected to receive new remotely operated combat vehicles and other advanced engineering armaments for improving manoeuvrability and survivability of mobile-based combat missile systems, in two years. The SMF formations will receive about 20 Listva remote mine clearing vehicles, and about 50 engineering support & concealment vehicles by 2020, Moscows defense ministry said Monday
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Eurofighter Has Orders for 623 Typhoon Fighter Jets
December 29, 2017 @ 11:47 AMThe Eurofighter consortium's order book for Typhoon fighter jets has grown to 623 aircraft following the signing of contract with Qatar to supply 24 fighters signed in December. Besides, December brought confirmation that Typhoon jet's production had started for the State of Kuwait while the Sultanate of Oman took its first deliveries of Eurofighter Typhoon at Adam Air Base, Oman
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United States' F-22, Russian Su-35 Warplanes in Close Encounter Over Syria
December 15, 2017 @ 12:53 PMA United States F-22 warplane and a Russian F-35 jet was involved in an incident of apparent intimidation over Syria when the latter “rapidly approached” the former which itself was “hampering” two Russian Su-25 fighters escorting an aid convoy. The Russian Defence Ministrys version says that the incident took place Wednesday in the vicinity of the Syrian town of Mayadin, when two Su-25 close air support jets were escorting a humanitarian aid convoy
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BAE Systems, University of Manchester Test Potential Stealth Drone
December 14, 2017 @ 04:11 AMBAE Systems, University of Manchester have completed the first phase of flight trials with MAGMA, a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which uses a unique blown-air system to manoeuvre the aircraft allowing stealthier aircraft designs. The new concept removes the conventional need for complex, mechanical moving parts used to move flaps to control the aircraft during flight
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Rheinmetall Unveils New Version of Laser Aiming and Illuminating Device
December 7, 2017 @ 09:21 AMRheinmetall has unveiled latest version of Vario-Ray LowProfile series laser aiming and illuminating device to the US market. The latest version of Rheinmetalls Vario-Ray LowProfile (VR-LP) is a compact laser aiming and illuminating device that was designed and developed by Rheinmetall Soldier Electronics (RSE) in Stockach, Germany, the company said in a statement Wednesday
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Peru Continues A-37B Light-attack Aircraft Avionics Systems Upgrade
November 16, 2017 @ 09:51 AMThe Peruvian Air Force (FAP, per its Spanish acronym) carries on with the avionics systems upgrade program of its main combat, transport, training, and helicopter fleets. “New leaps in technology demand that we acquire and develop a diagnostic solution compatible with a wide range of our aerial platforms,” FAP Colonel Armando Pomar Galdós, commander of SELEC, was quoted as saying by
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Saab's Latest Generation Fighter Gripen E Completes First Supersonic Flight
October 30, 2017 @ 10:15 AMSaab's next-generation fighter, the Gripen E, successfully flew supersonic for the first time over the Baltic Sea on 18th October, the company announced in a press release last week. The Gripen E smart fighter flew at speeds greater than the speed of sound, at over Mach 1, as part of the ongoing flight trials programme
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Saab to Supply Meteor BVR Missile Subsystem to MBDA
October 19, 2017 @ 01:49 PMSaab has signed a contract with MBDA for deliveries of subsystems for the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) missile system. The order value amounts to approximately SEK 150 million and deliveries to MBDA will take place during the period 2020-2021
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Russia's Tilt-Rotor Heavy-Lift Drone Prototype by 2019
October 19, 2017 @ 10:49 AMThe Russian design bureau VR-Technologies, part of Russian Helicopters, will build Russias first ever electric-powered heavy-lift convertiplane prototype by 2019, TASS reports
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BAE Systems Teams Up With Local Shipbuilder For UK Type 31 Frigates
October 18, 2017 @ 01:41 PMBritish firm BAE Systems has teamed up with Cammell Laird, the local shipbuilder, to provide warship design, engineering capability and combat systems in response to the UK Royal Navy's Type 31e frigate programme. Under the teaming agreement, BAE Systems will partner with Cammell Laird, who would Prime, build and assemble the vessels
Russia Offers Su-57 Fighter Jets to India with Joint Production Option
Indian Mirage 2000 Crashes; Pilots Safe
Iran Launches Drone and Helicopter Carrier
Turkey Waiting For Price Officer from U.K. on 40 Eurofighter Typhoons Procurement
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U