Defence Industry

  Rome, August 9, 2018. Leonardo, through its German subsidiary Selex ES GmbH, has secured a number of international contracts for its Meteor family of radars in the first half of 2018. The deals follow...

  Shvabe holding company (part of State Corporation Rostec) has completed the installation of a mirror at the Large Altazimuth Telescope (BTA) in the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS)...

  Munich, August 9, 2018. The installation of HENSOLDT’s ASR-NG Air Traffic Control systems in Australia takes up speed. Recently, the second Final System has completed site installation joining one Interim System and another already...

  Initiatives undertaken by the Government to modernize the Indian armed forces and the push for indigenisation of defence manufacturing through the “Make in India” campaign has encouraged Indian automobile companies to venture into developing...

  Bengaluru. Mr T. Suvarna Raju, CMD, HAL flew the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft-Tejas from HAL Airport here on August 8. The twin seat variant of LCA (PV5) was piloted by Group Captain KK Venugopal,...

  Rostec expects to get state approval by the end of the year to sell 75 per cent minus 1 share in the Technodinamika holding company, the leading developer and manufacturer of equipment for the...

  SAAB HAS RECEIVED a follow-on order from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the IDAS-2 self-protection suite for the Indian Army’s Dhruv helicopter. The order amounts to approximately MSEK 350. The order includes the IDAS-2 (Integrated...

Saab has received an order from the Royal Thai Air Force to upgrade Thailand’s national Air Command and Control System which is based on Saab’s 9AIR C4I. Saab will upgrade and further enhance the Royal...

  SAN DIEGO, August 7, 2018. The French Air Force operated two of its MQ-9 Reaper simultaneously in support of France’s Bastille Day events, one over Paris and the second over Cognac, on July 14....

  Rostov-on-Don, August 7, 2018. Russian Helicopters holding company (part of State Corporation Rostec) will for the first time present the latest Mi-26T2V heavy helicopter developed for the Ministry of Defence during the Army-2018 International...

  Damen Marine Components has won a contract to supply steering gear, rudders and stern tube parts for an Antarctic Research vessel of the Chilean Navy, under LRS -Polar 5 Class notation. The contract was...

CHICAGO. Boeing announced on August 7, its investment in Digital Alloys, Inc., a Burlington, Mass.-based company developing high-speed, multi-metal additive manufacturing systems that produce 3D-printed parts for aerospace and other production applications. Digital Alloys' Joule...

  Haifa, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd announced on August 7 that it was awarded an approximately $85 million contract from the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) to supply Electronic Warfare (EW) suites for the Israeli...