Defence Industry

  KNDS, the Franco-German company specialised in military hardware, was an unusual configuration from the onset. The hybrid defence firm was formed by an entirely private business German KMW and Nexter, initially a state-run but...

  Washington: A new prototype antenna for the US Space Force has passed a milestone test, the contractors involved with the project announced on August 31. The new multi-band, multimission antenna is under development to address...

  SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), with the support of SRC Inc., successfully integrated and flew the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Agile Condor Pod on an MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA)...

  New Delhi. BAE Systems and Leonardo have been awarded a £317m contract to develop the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA), the European Common Radar System Mark 2(ECRS Mk2) radar, to a standard ready to...

ORLANDO, Florida. The US Army recently awarded LONGBOW Limited Liability Company (LBL), a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corporation, four Foreign Military Sales contracts to provide the AH-64E Apache helicopter AN/APG-78...

  Moscow: In a major boost to Indian Armed Forces, India and Russia have finalised a major deal for manufacturing AK-47 203 rifles in India during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s ongoing visit to Moscow, the...

London. Leonardo in the UK has delivered the first of four complete baseline counter-drone systems to the Royal Air Force in support of the next stage of its Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) research and...

Taufkirchen, Germany. Germany-based HENSOLDT, a pioneer of technology and innovation in the field of defence and security electronics, has developed Multifunctional Self-Protection System (MUSS). MUSS is a soft kill-based active protection system (APS). “We...

Tel Aviv. Israeli company Smart Shooter that has developed an innovative fire control system, which significantly increases the accuracy and lethality of small arms, has successfully completed another step in testing the SMASH Hopper...

PHILADELPHIA. Boeing is delivering new technologies and performance improvements to US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with the Block II Chinook helicopter. Boeing’s Philadelphia team recently delivered the first MH-47G Block II Chinook to SOCOM...

  Tel Aviv. Israeli company Steadicopter, that is developing rotary unmanned aerial systems (RUAS), has unveiled Black Eagle 25E and Black Eagle 50E - the newest models of its RUAV - now operated with electric...

Kielce, Poland. One of HENSOLDT’s core competences is recognizing threats and protecting end users. At MSPO 2020 in Kielce, HENSOLDT presents its broad range of sensor solutions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations as...

SYDNEY. Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp., on September 1 announced that it has been awarded a contract extension by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) worth about $1 mn to provide...