| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant Compound Helicopter Achieves First Flight
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --- The Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant helicopter achieved first flight today at Sikorsky's West Palm Beach, Florida site. This revolutionary aircraft, developed by Sikorsky and Bo... US Assured India It Could Remotely Disable Pakistan’s Amraam Missiles: Report
NEW DELHI --- The United States had assured India that Pakistan won’t use F16s and Amraams (advanced medium range air-to-air missiles) for offensive purposes as the US had an effective end-user monito... Pentagon Orders Four MQ-9 Reapers for Dutch Air Force
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, Calif., has been awarded a not-to-exceed $123,293,911 undefinitized contract action for MQ-9 Block 5 procurement. This contract provides for four ... UK MoD Scraps £1.2 Bn ‘Aggressor’ Training Project
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has moved to scrap entirely its GBP1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) project to provide its military pilots with air combat training through a private contractor. The... US Sees Great Power Competition with Russia, China
WASHINGTON --- Russia and China are competitors to the United States and both nations are looking to overturn the current rules-based international order, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sai... China Puts Two Earth Observation Satellites In Service
BEIJING --- Two Chinese Earth observation satellites, the Gaofen-5 and Gaofen-6, were officially put into service on Thursday after completing in-orbit tests. During the tests, the two satellites p... Vega Launcher Orbits Italy’s Earth Observation Satellite
VEGA --- Arianespace’s third mission of 2019 – which marked the Vega rocket’s 14th consecutive success – orbited the Italian PRISMA Earth observation satellite tonight, bringing the total number of sp... UK-Deployed B-52s Fly Missions Across Europe
Four U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses conducted flights from RAF Fairford, England, to several places in Europe on March 18, 2019, including to the Norwegian Sea, the Baltic Sea/Estonia and the Me... Marines Seize Airfield, Island to Train for Fight Against China
Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, seized a small island and airfield with elite special operations airmen and soldiers as part of a test of its future fighting concept. That ... Israeli AF “Aggressor” Squadron Emulates Arab Air Forces
They have Arab names and their ranks are colored red, but they fly with the IAF's emblem on their aircraft – in celebration of Purim read about the 115th ("Flying Dragon") aggressor squadron, which "d... Jacobs Wins US Army $785M Intelligence Contract
DALLAS --- Jacobs has been awarded a contract to support the U.S Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) at Fort Huachuca by providing training development and support for the Army and other ... DGA Evaluates the Future Optronics of Tiger Helicopter
The DGA’s Flight Test Center of Expertise and Testing conducted the first test campaign of a Strix sight in a TopOwl digital helmet. An innovation that will bring more effectiveness to the Tiger crew.... GD Wins $465M for Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Support
General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co.-Bremerton, Bremerton, Washington, is awarded a maximum value $465,150,000 cost-cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/in... L-3 Wins $132M to Improve Bomb Proximity Fuses
L3 Technologies Systems Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has been awarded a $131,780,189 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the Cockpit-Selectable Height-of-Burst Sensor. This contract pro... Norway Procures Six Leguan Bridge Layers
MUNICH / OSLO --- The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) has signed on March 21, 2019 an agreement with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for the procurement of six Leguan bridge-layer systems on Leop... German Eurofighters Get New Mission Support System
A new Airbus Mission Support System (MSS) for Eurofighter is released to service to the German Air Force. Including unprecedented planning features, the capabilities of this new MSS are based on more ... US Army Says New Paint Can Suppress Vehicle Heat Signature
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. --- While Soldiers wear camouflage to blend into the environment, it is also important to ensure ground vehicles are not easily detected. The Army now has a new advanced c... Satellite Enhances Comms for US Army Missions
FORT MEADE, Md. --- A high-capacity military communications satellite was launched Friday in an ongoing effort to provide ground troops with the ability to send larger transmissions quicker. The sa... Royal Navy Names Fourth New Offshore Patrol Vessel
HMS Tamar, the fourth of the Royal Navy’s five cutting-edge new Offshore Patrol Vessels, has been formally named in Glasgow today. The next-generation River Class ship will boost Britain’s counter-... China Completes Training of Fiji Navy Personnel
SUVA --- Fiji highly appreciates the work that has been done by a group of Chinese experts to train the Fijian naval personnel to operate the China-aided hydrographic survey vessel which was handed ov... Darpa Looks to AI to Build Better Human-Machine Teams
The inability of artificial intelligence (AI) to represent and model human partners is the single biggest challenge preventing effective human-machine teaming today. Current AI agents are able to resp... Thales Naval Combat Management Centre for Type 31 Frigate
Thales is pleased to announce it is opening a UK centre of excellence to develop its globally proven TACTICOS naval combat management system in support of the Royal Navy’s future Type 31 frigate progr... Lockheed Delivers First HC-130J Combat King to NY National Guard
MARIETTA, Ga. --- Lockheed Martin delivered the first of four HC-130J Combat King II aircraft today to representatives from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing (RQW). This HC-130J w... Safran Wins New Contract to Further Develop Australian Expertise
The Australian Government has awarded Safran Electronics & Defense Australasia Pty Ltd (SEDA) a contract for in-service support to the Royal Australian Navy’s infrared search and track systems. Min... Australia to Tout Its Industry at IPE 2019 Exercise
Australian defence industry will showcase their products and services to the region during Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE) 2019, the first time an industry activity will take place as part of the port vi... Korean Missile Fired by Maintenance Mistake
The inadvertent launch of an anti-aircraft missile at a military base in Chuncheon, Gangwon, on Monday was the result of maintenance accident, the South Korean Air Force said on Thursday. After it ... HMS Albion Leads Amphibious Forces for Exercise
HMS Albion returned to sea to lead amphibious forces in a two-week exercise off the Cornish and Devon coast. The assault ship was joined by Commander of the Amphibious Task Group (COMATG) Commodore... EDA Launches ‘Identifunding’ Online Tool
BRUSSELS --- EDA today launched ‘IdentiFunding’, an online tool which allows defence-interested stakeholders (industry - including SMEs, Ministries of Defence, research and technology entities, univer... Thales Opens Engineering Competence Centre in Romania
With the opening of the its new Engineering Competence Centre (ECC) in Bucharest, Thales leverages its global footprint, to reinforce its capability across all its core domains: from space and defence... EU Clears Spirit AeroSystems’ Acquisition of Asco
WICHITA, Kan. --- Spirit AeroSystems announced today it is pleased that the European Commission has cleared the company's planned acquisition of Asco Industries following the Commission's Phase One re... Arquus Exhibits at French Special Forces Show
A major partner and supplier for the French Army, with more than 20,000 wheeled vehicles currently in service in the forces, ARQUUS is also a major [actor] of the Special Forces’ mobility. Expert ... | 
