Defence Industry

Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 engines will power the first visit to Farnborough Air Show of Airbus’s latest aircraft, the A330neo. The aircraft, which will enter service later this year, is exclusively powered by the Trent...

  SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems announced on July 12, that it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) to upgrade a portable GA-EMS...

  BAE Systems has begun work to transition its advanced Compass Call electronic warfare (EW) system from aging EC-130H aircraft to a modern, more capable platform that will significantly improve mission effectiveness. This Cross Deck...

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE, July 11, 2018: Medium-altitude, Long-endurance (MALE) Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) produced by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) made history as it landed at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford in Gloucestershire, UK...

  Vientiane, July 12, 2018. During their business trip to Laos, the delegation from Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) conducted negotiations with the executives of the Lao Ministry of Defense regarding...

  Haifa, Israel, July 12, 2018. Elbit Systems commences global marketing of the HermesTM 900 StarLiner, a powerful and trend setting Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that features adverse weather capabilities...

  Vientiane, July 12, 2018: Russian Helicopters Holding Company (part of Rostec State Corporation) fulfilled the first service contract in the interests of the Lao Ministry of Defense, having transferred a batch of four Mi-17...

Madrid, 12 July 2018. Airbus Defence and Space has followed its earlier achievement in demonstrating Automatic Air-to-Air (A3R) refuelling of a fighter with another world-first – the same operation performed with a large receiver...

  PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 11, 2018: Boeing has received a $139.8 million contract to provide four MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command. “The Army uses the MH-47G for some...

DENVER, July 11, 2018. Lockheed Martin has embraced a 3-D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can't even put your arms around it. The 46-inch- (1.16-meter-) diameter vessel completed final...

  Warsaw. Leonardo and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (PGZ) signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) that will see the two companies collaborate on the AW249, the only new combat helicopter currently being designed, aiming to...

  The Israeli-based aerostat company RT LTA Systems Ltd. Announces on July 11, it has completed the development of an improved light-weight elastic material for the aerostats' bladder, that will enable all SkyStar aerostat systems...

NFORT WORTH, Texas, July 9, 2018: Lockheed Martin is expanding its work with Guardtime Federal to integrate a variety of integrity and cyber-related capabilities into Lockheed Martin aircraft products and processes. The new contract builds...