Defence Industry

  NEW DELHI. A newly designed website has been launched on October 10 for Aero India 2019 (https://aeroindia.gov.in) for registration of exhibitors and visitors. The portal facilitated payment of registration fee online and thereafter book space/stall...

  ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS, Inc. and partner Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. of Israel announced on October 9 that they have successfully completed a lengthy live-fire qualification process for key elements of the lighter...

  S AN DIEGO. Partnered with the US Army, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) recently completed Follow-On Operational Test & Evaluation (FOT&E) for its MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range. Testing of the Unmanned...

  BAE Systems has received an order to provide 18 additional M777 155mm Ultra Lightweight Howitzers to the U.S. Army under a new contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This order builds on the...

  TECHMASH (part of Rostec) is ready to adapt ammunition to meet the needs of drone manufacturers. Companies of the concern produce a wide range of air ammunition, such as aerial bombs whose weight ranges...

  SYRACUSE, New York. The US Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract modification to insert Gallium Nitride (GaN) into the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) radar as part of the full rate production configuration. The Q-53 is the most...

  CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Florida. The fourth Lockheed Martin built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communications satellite is one step closer to space. The AEHF-4 satellite was encapsulated into its payload fairing...

  Saab has, in collaboration with Raytheon, received a contract from the US Army to demonstrate a guided munition for the Carl-Gustaf system, with three all-up-round test firings against threat-representative targets. In 2017, Saab announced its...

  NEW DELHI. India and Russia signed for approximately above $5 billion contract to supply India with the S-400 Triumf long-range air defence missile systems (ADMS). The deal, which is the biggest ever in company history...

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. The Sikorsky S-97 Raider light tactical prototype helicopter is advancing rapidly through its flight test schedule, recently exceeding 200 knots at the Sikorsky Development Flight Center. Raider, developed by Sikorsky,...

Marignane. The H225M, with 88 aircraft currently in service in six countries across the globe, has surpassed the 100,000 flight hour milestone, following its first delivery to the French Air Force in 2006. The...

  Tampere, Finland. Robonic Ltd Oy, subsidiary of Safran Electronics & Defense has delivered a third-generation KONTIO pneumatic launcher to Leonardo, a company press statement said on October 3. Designed to launch tactical unmanned air systems...

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) performance testing has been successfully completed for the C-2A Greyhound, E-2C+ Hawkeye, and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The testing supports...