U.S. helicopter maker Sikorsky will transform ageing UH-60A helicopter into modern Optionally Piloted Vehicle, the aerospace giant announced on 6 June. The UH-60A Black Hawk has been the Army’s front-line utility helicopter for the past 40 years. Named after Native American war chief and leader of the Sauk tribe in the Midwest, Black Hawk, the […]

The aviation giant Boeing has released onboard footage showed its modern KC-46A Pegasus tanker that provides fuel in mid-air for EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack aircraft. In a video released by Boeing on its Twitter account, KC-46 tanker as the U.S. Air Force team completes EC-130H Compass Call receiver certification testing at Edwards Air Force […]

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy successfully tested its next-generation of a submarine-launched ballistic missile on 2 June. According to several media reports, the Chinese navy launched a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), allegedly JL-3, in the Bohai Bay near the Shandong Peninsula at 4 hours 28 minutes in the morning on June 2, 2019. Tests […]

The U.S. Air Combat Command has released footage of F-16 airstrikes featuring GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs at the Nevada Test and Training Range. In a video post published on the U.S. Air Combat Command’s Facebook page on Friday, showed capabilities of GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb or smart bomb with over 45 mile range. According to […]

British multinational defense, security and aerospace company BAE Systems has released a new video of its modern vehicle mounted mortar system, called the Hammer of Thor or Mjölner. Mjölner is the hammer of Thor in Norse mythology and is depicted as one of the most fearsome weapons, capable of leveling mountains. The Mjölner mortar system, […]

Gaza-based militant group Saraya Al-Quds has released footage showing aerial bombardment by low-end drones on Israeli Merkava IV tank. Militant group using commercial remote-controlled aircraft, referred to as drones, to attack Israel Defense Forces armored vehicles stationed on the Gaza border. The footage, which starts with the words ‘what the enemy has kept silent about,’ […]

Nellis Air Force Base has released video showing the first flight of the F-16C fighter jet painted in a unique digital pixelated camouflage paint scheme that mimics Russia’s next-generation Su-57 jets. The fighter jet, called the Ghost and assigned to the U.S. Air Force’s 64th Aggressor Squadron, is specifically painted to “realistically simulate” air combat […]

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. has announced that it’s Air Vehicle Concept Demonstrator aircraft, called the Bell V-280 Valor, continues to deliver impressive flight test results. According to a news release put out by Bell, the V-280 Valor recently completed flight demonstrations of its low-speed agility key performance parameter (KPP) in the U.S. Army-led Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator […]

Video posted on U.S. Defense contractor Raytheon’s Twitter account, appear to show future laser weapon systems that that can stop enemy hypersonic missiles. Hypersonic weapons are highly maneuverable, travel many times the speed of sound, and allow for the destruction of targets anywhere in the world in less than an hour. The new generation missiles […]

Tomahawk missile maker Raytheon has released video showing capability of its new family of aircraft sensors, called the Multi-Spectral Targeting System (MTS). The Raytheon announced on its Twitter account that: “Small turret, mighty vision: Our MTS delivers detailed intelligence in high-definition, full motion video.” Also, the company points out that the new MTS system is […]