Washington: The US Marine Corps released a revised aviation strategy that focuses on using autonomous systems, drones and artificial intelligence-driven software to ensure its aircraft fleet can survive in a fierce war zone. And...
Washington: The US Air Force greatly expanded funding for the prototype engine for the service’s planned sixth-generation fighter. General Electric of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Pratt & Whitney Engines of East Hartford, Connecticut, each received...
Tel Aviv: Earlier this month, Italy announced that Saudi Arabia may join the sixth generation Fighter Jet Program. The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP), a strategic collaboration between Italy, the United
Kingdom, and Japan to...
Tel Aviv: The Israeli ministry of defence is in high level talks with the US administration about future procurement of military systems.
Director General of Israel Ministry of Defence, Maj Gen (Res.) Eyal Zamir, arrived in...
Washington: The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have reached a handshake agreement for two more lots of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
The initial agreement will cover production of lots 18 and 19 of the stealth fighter’s...
Washington: The return of President Trump as commander-in-chief could mean more hardball negotiations with defence contractors.
But Trump’s focus on cost cutting and potential insistence on hard deals may run into resistance from an industry...
Tel Aviv: Classified air launched ballistic missiles were used by the Israeli air force (IAF) to neutralise the Syrian and Iraqi air defence systems to open a ''clean corridor'' for more than a hundred...
Fort Worth (Texas): After a year’s worth of headlines dominated by the program’s woes, Lockheed Martin celebrated something of a new chapter for the F-35: the first of the stealth fighters for Poland, rolled...
New Delhi: The US manufacturing giant Honeywell on June 21 said that it will buy aerospace and defence technology provider CAES Systems for $1.9 billion, as part of its focus on three broader business...
Tel Aviv: The Israeli ministerial committee for defence procurement approved the purchase of the third squadron of F-35 (Adir) stealth aircraft. This comes after months of delay due to political issues in the Israeli...
London: Britain’s Ministry of Defence has confirmed that software-update problems in the F-35 program will hit aircraft deliveries, though a key official said the delay is unlikely to affect the timing for proclaiming the...
Washington: The first production F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with an early, incomplete version of the software powering a key upgrade was flown last week at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas facility, the company said.
The...
Washington: Leading American defence company, Northrop Grumman, October 26, reported sales in its most recent quarter grew 9%, buoyed by increases in all four of its sectors.
The company recorded nearly $ 9.8 billion in...