Defence Industry

Albacete, Spain. Spain is placing orders for 100 Airbus helicopters through the Directorate General for Armament and Material (DGAM) of the Ministry of Defence. These four contracts, framed within the National Helicopter Plan announced...

Vienna. Schiebel has successfully completed the first CAMCOPTER® S-300 flight test campaign in France, marking an important milestone in the programme’s progression. The flights were conducted at the CESA Drones test site in Sainte-Hélène near...

Gurugram. Samtel Avionics (SA), a key player in India’s defence technology sector has secured Rs 75 crore in growth funding from True North Private Credit, the credit arm of one of India's most respected...

New Delhi: INAS 335 - The 'Ospreys', the second Indian Naval Air Squadron to operate MH 60R helicopters, was commissioned at INS Hansa, Goa, in a ceremony presided over by Adm Dinesh K Tripathi,...

Nordholz, Germany. Airbus Helicopters, through the joint venture NHIndustries, has handed over the first NH90 Sea Tiger to the German Navy during a delivery ceremony at the Navy’s base in Nordholz. A total of...

Paris: The Netherlands has ordered Skyranger anti-drone cannons from Germany’s Rheinmetall for less than €1 billion (US$1.2 billion), below the budget flagged to parliament in January. The Dutch will buy mobile versions of the Skyranger...

Christchurch: South Korea and Australia are offering to relieve Washington’s strained defence supplier network, as US defence planners grapple with bottlenecks in munitions production. One partial solution is for overseas-based arms manufacturers to set up...

Haifa / Tel Aviv: Israeli company Elbit Systems announced December 16 that it was notified that the Hellenic Parliament and KYSEA (Government Council for National Security) have approved a budget for the purchase of...

Washington: It might seem inconceivable that the use of drones in future battles would have come to the forefront of discussions of NATO strategy in the 1950s, but that is exactly what happened when...

New Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman, Samir V. Kamat, has issued a stark call for enhanced investment in defence R&D to prepare for the evolving landscape of future warfare. Speaking at the...

Raghu Vamsi Aerospace Group, with 10 manufacturing locations across three countries and more than 1,000 employees, has been supplying aero engines and missile subsystems for global OEMs and Indian DPSUs recently inaugurated its Citadel...

Abu Dhabi, UAE: HORIZON, the Middle East’s largest independent helicopter flight training academy and an entity of EDGE, one of the world’s leading advanced technology and defence groups, has become the first authorised service...

Donauwörth, Germany. Germany has decided to exercise the option for 20 more H145M light combat helicopters (Leichter Kampfhubschrauber or LKH for short) that were part of a contract signed in December 2023, bringing the...