Defence Industry

  Tel Aviv. A improved engine and improved avionics makes the Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) - Heron MK II UAV, a very capable systems. Deliveries of the first UAV of this new version will begin...

  Tel Aviv. The Israeli defence forces (IDF) and other Israeli anti-terror bodies have intensified the use of advanced simulators for anti-terror scenarios. Israeli companies, in close cooperation with the (IDF) and the Israeli border...

Oberkochen, Germany. Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT has received an order from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) worth nearly 75 million euros to equip the Royal Netherlands Army's “Fennek” armoured reconnaissance vehicles with visual systems. The scope of...

  Tel Aviv. Elbit Systems completed the acceptance tests for new patrol vessels of the Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG). In March 2019, the company reported that it was awarded a contract from Cantiere Navale Vittoria...

  Braintree, MA. Ultra announced that its Naval Systems and Sensors business unit has been awarded a $69,816,849 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract containing firm-fixed-price provisions from the United States Navy. This contract is for production of transducers...

  New Delhi. In another boost to government's indigenous defence production push, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed single crystal blades technology and supplied 60 of these blades to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)...

  New Delhi. Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) and Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) are extending all possible assistance to the civil administration/state governments in the fight against the recent spike in COVID-19 cases across the...

Rome. Leonardo has entered into a definitive agreement with Square Lux Holding II S.à r.l., a portfolio company controlled by funds advised by Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts & Co. L.P., to purchase a 25.1...

  Florida. Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Medway underwent a successful planned maintenance period, delivered by BAE Systems and Royal Navy Ship Staff in Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida, from December 2020 through...

  Melbourne / Canberra. Lockheed Martin and Thales Australia have finalized a teaming agreement advancing the delivery of an Australian guided weapons manufacturing capability in support of a sovereign national guided weapons enterprise. The agreement will...

  SAN DIEGO. The US Air Force, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and L3Harris Technologies have collaborated to further expand the mission capabilities of the US Air Force’s versatile MQ-9 Reaper® Remotely Piloted Aircraft...

  Tel Aviv. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Israel’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) Office of Production and Procurement have signed an agreement to manufacture Z-MAG, a unique all-terrain vehicle for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). IAI...

  Stans, Switzerland. Despite the wide spread out of Corona pandemic in 2020, it proved to be a good year for Pilatus and the company achieved good result. Corona also placed great demands on Pilatus,...