Airbus India has appointed Ashish Saraf as Vice-President for Industry Development, Strategic Partnerships and Offsets. Saraf will drive the Groups existing ‘Make in India initiatives and conceive new ones for all the businesses of Airbus Group India with the aim to increase their industrial footprint here
The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has ordered six additional NH90 helicopters in tactical troop transport (TTH) configuration. This brings the total amount of NH90 TTHs on order for the French Army Aviation to 74
Fear of intellectual property loss combined with inexperience in helicopter manufacture led Russia's Rostec Corp to select Hindustan Aeronautics Limited over a private firm in the 'Make in India' program to manufacture KA-226T helicopters. The helicopter manufactured by Russian Helicopters boasts of certain unique technologies never before employed in any helicopter in its class anywhere in the world- It is the only chopper with a co-axial twin rotor and no tail rotor
Moscow and New Delhi have concluded an agreement to build at least 200 Ka-226T helicopters in India. Russia and India signed the helicopter manufacturing co-operation deal during the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modis visit to Moscow earlier this month
Russian Helicopters attended the Trade and Industry: Russia – Iran 2015 exhibition and held in Tehran this week and discussed prospects for the sale of Mi-8/17, Ka-32A11BC, and Ka-226T helicopters. The company met with the Iran Aviation Industries Organisation (IAIO), the state body that is responsible for Iran's aviation industry
The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) has ordered seven additional Tiger HAD attack helicopters, bringing to 67 the total number of Tigers that will eventually be operated by the French Army Aviation. The additional Tigers will be delivered in 2017-2018
Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems (EOS) have set up a space object tracking facility in Australia to detect possible debris in orbit, ranging from spent rocket parts to pieces of defunct satellites. The new space object tracking site will give satellite operators a clearer picture of the debris that could damage their networks and how they can avoid potential collisions, the company said in a statement Wednesday
Japans Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is expected to test fly a locally-made stealth jet by March 2016 with technology developed in-house. The plane, called Advanced Technology Demonstrator X (ATD-X) will then be handed over to the Japanese Self Defence Force (SDF), which will start conducting its own tests, Bloomberg quoted Hirofumi Doi, a program manager at the Defense Ministry as saying
India has test fired its home-made nuclear nuclear capable Prithvi-II Missile that has strike range of 350 km. The test conducted today is part of a user trial by the army and was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Economic Times reported Thursday
Turkey has sent an additional 20 tanks to an armored brigade stationed at western Turkish-Syrian border. Turkey earlier today also said, that it will be increasing the number of F-16s from 12 to 18 patrolling the border