Defence Industry

  Getafe, Spain. Airbus Defence and Space has signed two contracts valued at € 1.2 billion in total with France’s Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) and Direction de la Maintenance Aéronautique (DMAé) for the Capability Enhancement and...

Bengaluru: As it pursues opportunities to sell fighter jets and helicopters to several countries, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) plans to create a new business division to boost exports. The aircraft maker has proposed setting...

Warsaw: The Estonian Centre for Defence Investments (ECDI) has awarded contracts to Turkish manufacturers Otokar and Nurol Makina to purchase roughly 230 armoured vehicles for a total of around €200 million, or $211 million,...

Washington: In a boost to aeronautic technology, Aerospace company Boeing plans to begin testing a full 3D-printed main rotor system for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in the spring of next year as part...

Bethesda, Maryland. The US Army Contracting Command – Orlando, on behalf of the Test Resource Management Center and Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, has selected Lockheed Martin  for Event Planning, Operations and...

  CHINA LAKE, California. Lockheed Martin recently announced a successful flight test of the Multi-Function Electronic Warfare-Air Large (MFEW-AL), an airborne electronic payload with attack and support capability. This MFEW-AL test represented the first time...

  Moscow. JSC ROSOBORONEXPORT (part of Rostec State Corporation) takes into account the pressing challenges facing the Russian defenсe industry and the system of military-technical cooperation. The company actively offers its partners new formats of...

Washington: In what is being said to safely and effectively accomplish critical future missions, there is need  for soldiers to have next-generation heavy-lift capabilities and Boeing says that its H-47 Chinook Block II is...

Paris: French defence firms have boosted production of self-propelled guns, artillery shells, fighter jets and anti-air missiles, the country’s armed forces minister said October 16. The announcement by Sébastien Lecornu comes as France aims to...

Washington: The US Air Force is entering what leaders say could be its most transformational period in a generation, as the service looks to position itself as a global powerhouse for decades to come....

Bengaluru: Defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is preparing to activate new production lines for Tejas MK-1A and HTT-40 planes. The defence PSU has a capacity to build 16 Tejas MK-1As every...

New Delhi: Agnikul Cosmos, an Indian spacetech startup has increased its total capital raised to date to $40 million as it raised Rs 200 crore ($26.7 million) in Series B funding. The funding round...

  Madrid: The A900 system from Alpha Unmanned Systems(AUS), acquired by the DGAM for the Matacán Schools Group (GRUEMA), has successfully completed the process of obtaining its Certificate of Airworthiness for Experimentation (CAE). This certificate has...