This first PC-21, registered as A54-001, will be handed over to the Royal Australian Air Force at East Sale in June 2017 after completion of testing and verification work in both Switzerland and Australia. Under a contract signed in December 2015 aimed at harmonising Australian Defence Force flight training across all three services – Army, […]

The German Ministry of Defence procurement agency (BAAInBw) and Airbus Defence and Space have signed a contract to provide Heron 1 unmanned surveillance aircraft to support the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) mission in Mali. That reproted by flugrevue.de. “A major success factor for this new assignment is our experience gained in more than 2300 missions over […]

The batch of 10 armored vehicles “Dozor-B” was manufactured and successfully accepted by military representative offices of Kharkiv and Lviv. The event took place at UKROBORONPROM SE “Kharkiv Morozov Machine-Building Design Bureau”. This was stated by UKROBORONPROM Director General Roman Romanov at the press conference, dedicated to the results of 2 years work of UKROBORONPROM […]

The Lockheed Martin (LMT)-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s 17th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Indianapolis, in a ceremony held at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin. Ship sponsor Mrs. Jill Donnelly, the wife of U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly, completed the time-honored tradition and authenticated the keel by […]

Drone Aviation Introduces “Bolt,” its next generation heavy lift, higher altitude tethered drone designed for persistent missions. The coaxial helicopter rotor UAS is designed to meet military applications that require access to altitude for surveillance and communications. The system can operate at altitudes of up to 800ft for 10+ hours at a time in near-silence. […]

Jelcz Sp. z oo, a 100% owned HSW Stalowa Wola, is one of the fastest growing companies in the Polish Armament Group. Lorries, ordered by the military, go to the units of the armed forces regularly. The polish Jelcz Sp. z oo company produced more than 400 military trucks in year.  JELCZ was established the 1 […]

Schiebel, renowned for the development and production of a wide range of proven mine detection equipment, willdeliver 100 MIMID Miniature Mine Detectors to the Czech Ministry of Defence.The recent order for 100 additional units of the one-piece, man portable light-weight mine detector placed by the MoD was not the first of this kind. In the […]

Falco EVO, the longest-endurance version of Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s successful Falco unmanned air system (UAS), has been selected by two customers in the Middle East and Gulf region. A surveillance and intelligence-gathering platform, the Falco EVO can fly for up to 20 hours, carrying a payload of up to 100 kg. With access to a range of […]

Airbus Helicopters has awarded a contract to Mahindra Aerostructures to make airframe parts for the AS565 MBe Panther. These parts will be produced at the Mahindra facility in Bengaluru. They will be shipped directly to the Airbus Helicopter production line in Marignane, France where they will be integrated with the rest of the airframe assembly […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company (RTN) a $291 million contract award for production of the AIM-9X Sidewinder® missile, one of the most advanced infrared-tracking, short-range, air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles in the world. The contract is for All Up Round Tactical Full Rate Production Lot 16 of the Block II missiles for the U.S. […]