Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) has selected Safran Helicopter Engines as engine supplier for its Light Civil Helicopter (LCH). It will be powered with the existing Arriel 2C2 engine. On the Light Armed Helicopter (LAH), Safran has been selected by Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), KAI and Hanwha Techwin. The LAH will feature a new engine […]

STREIT Group to unveil new models of armored vehicles at Eurosatory 2016 exhibition in 13-17 June in France. Company will showcase more then 13 armored vehicles, with Gladiator AHV and  Scorpion – AFV live demonstration at Eurosatory 2016 exhibition. Established in Canada in 1992 – STREIT Group is one of the world’s leading, privately owned armored vehicles manufacturer with 12 […]

This could finally be it. India’s chronically delayed effort to contract for new medium fighter jets could finally be at an end. While France’s monumental four-year endeavour to get India to sign up for Rafale jets has fluttered endlessly, India’s defence minister has for the first time provided a specific timeframe for contract signatute: next month! […]

Airbus has confirmed the most negative scenario regarding faults in the reduction gear of the engine of the A400M military transport aircraft, as cracks have been found in all engines whose propellers rotate clockwise. In extreme cases, these cracks in the engine’s Propeller Gear Box (PGB) could shed flakes of metal which then that pass […]

Manurhin is a French defence company in the arms industry. Manurhin is specialized today in the design, development, manufacturing and installation of ammunition production equipment; from single machines to complete lines, delivered as turnkey. MANURHIN controls 3 subsidiaries specialized in production and supply of technologies for ammunition manufacturing: MR EQUIPEMENT (Mulhouse – France)  It represents the main part […]

France  will show a life size model of the Leclerc XLR Main Battle Tank at Eurosatory 2016 from 13 to 17 June 2016 in Paris, reported by forcesoperations.com. The Leclerc XLR    is a moderate variation of the Leclerc Main Battle Tank, built by GIAT Industries.  This “Scorpionisation” provides for the delivery of 200 Leclerc XLR tanks and 18 Leclerc recovery vehicles […]

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull this morning named France as the winner of the $50 billion submarine bid, pipping Germany and Japan to build the next generation of submarines for the Royal Australian Navy, reported theaustralian.com.au. The French shipbuilding giant DCNS has sold smaller submarines to India, Malaysia, Chile and Brazil, but its chairman and […]

Exercise Griffin Strike 2016 is a live exercise by joint UK and French forces known as the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF). The large exercise being held in April on the Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) is the culmination of six years of UK-French military cooperation and will demonstrate the CJEF’s potential high-readiness to deploy. […]

More than 5,000 personnel from the UK and France will take part in Exercise Griffin Strike, which will test the Combined UK and French Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF). The exercise will see a UK-French headquarters planning and executing major land, sea and air activity for the first time in a demonstration of the force’s ‘full […]

The French military truck  Renault Midlum  heavily stuck in mud during  preliminary trials in Ukraine, reported military-informant.com. The Renault Midlum that participated in the exercises have been presented to a group of military men with the Chief of the General Staff, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forced of Ukraine Mr.V.Muzhenko at the head and battalion commanders. […]