Defence Industry

  EVERETT, Washington, September 4, 2018. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Boeing’s KC-46 tanker programme a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC), verifying that its refueling and mission avionics systems meet FAA requirements. The...

  September 5, 2018. Saab has received an order for deliveries of the new Carl-Gustaf® M4 multi-role weapon system to the Australian Army. This is Saab´s sixth customer for the Carl-Gustaf M4 system since its...

  CANBERRA. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, on September 4 announced the further expansion of Team Reaper Australia. Sentient Vision Systems, Team Reaper Australia’s newest member,...

ORLANDO, Fla., September 4, 2018. The US Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to more than $500 million to build and deliver more than 200+ electronic Consolidated Automated Support Systems (eCASS)...

  FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin Corp announced on September 4 an agreement to commence production of F-16 wings in India. This strategic initiative positions Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) to become the provider of wings...

  Adelaide, Australia. Elbit Systems of Australia will demonstrate the Network Enabled Land Combat System with a multi-stand collaboration at Land Forces 2018 which commences in Adelaide on September 3. Elbit Systems of Australia is working...

  Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, August 28, 2018. Researchers from the US Army Research Laboratory and Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc., company, met in June to further advance the development of a micro unmanned aerial...

ST. LOUIS. Boeing will build the US Navy’s first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft, the MQ-25 aerial refueler, through an $805 million contract awarded August 30. Boeing was awarded the engineering and manufacturing development contract to...

  Enterprises of Rostec State Corporation signed agreements for the amount of over 100 billion rubles ($1.5 billion) as part of the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2018". This is 2.5 times more than the amount of...

  Following the programme of military-technical cooperation with India, Technodinamika holding company (part of Rostec State Corporation) has begun executing installation supervision of marine hydraulic systems on the Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya. This project...

Bernin (Grenoble) and Le Plessis-Robinson, France, August 21, 2018. Soitec (Euronext Paris), a world leader in designing and manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials, and MBDA, announce the joint acquisition of Dolphin Integration. Dolphin Integration is...

DULLES, Virginia, August 28, 2018. Raytheon Company's Intelligence, Information and Services business' Standard Terminal Automation Modernization and Replacement System (STARS) team received the Air Traffic Control Association's (ATCA) annual Industry Award for exceptional performance...

  CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 28, 2018. Under the Defense Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Explainable Artificial Intelligence programme (XAI), Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing a first of its kind neural network that explains itself. The XAI programme...