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Northrop Grumman has received a $91 million contract for the additional production of AN/APR-39D(V)2 digital radar warning receivers (RWR). Small and lightweight, the system protects rotary and fixed wing aircraft from modern radio frequency (RF) threats such as radar-guided missiles and...

JSC CSTS Dinamika, part of Technodinamika Group, has successfully passed the state trials of the latest target simulator with a rotary-wing target drone system. This is the first unmanned rotorcraft belonging to this size group ever designed, built and tested in Russia. With takeoff weight at...

F-15 Eagle drivers will get upgraded ejection seats under a new $700 million contract to Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, awarded on Oct. 29. The new ACES 5 ejection seat will replace the F-15’s older ACES II ejection seat, found in most of the Air Force’s fighter and...

Su-57 fighter jet The second serially produced Su-57 fighter of Russia marked its first flight on Saturday in Khabarovsk territory marking the start of serial production of the stealth jet. The first serially-produced Su-57 aircraft had crashed in December 2019, causing a huge setback to...

French Air Force refuelling plane to accompany them. Three Rafale fighter jets of the Indian Air Force are scheduled to arrive on November 4 flying non-stop from France, an official source said. With this, the IAF will have eight of the 36 Rafale jets in service. Three Rafale fighter jets...

Taiwan is said to be preparing to retire the MIM-23 HAWK medium-range surface-to-air missile system by end of the year. The missile system’s MPQ-50 Pulse Acquisition Radar will be transferred to the Army. The 6th, 8th and 10th Army Commands will each receive a radar. Meanwhile, it was...

We still don't know much about what exactly caused the collision between a KC-130J and an F-35B, both Marine Corps aircraft taking part in the Weapons Tactics Instructor course out of MCAS Yuma, Arizona, near the Salton Sea in Southern California on September 29th, 2020. What we do know is the...

It's Official: A Foreign Company Will Help Mitsubishi Build Japan’s Next Fighter Aerospace firms in the United States and the United Kingdom are likely to compete for work in co-developing Japan’s next-generation combat aircraft. The Japanese Ministry of Defense has formally laid out the path...

India reportedly declined the opportunity to purchase a fleet of MQ-9 Reaper drones from the United States that would have cost the country more than $3 billion. Officials told U.S. News & World Report that an agreement with India for the drones with the capability of long-range precision...

The United Kingdom has effectively barred the sale of the FA-50 Fighting Eagle to Argentina, with the South Korean manufacturer informing the South American nation that it is unable to supply the light fighter and strike jet with its British-made parts. The South Korean FA-50 has fallen foul...

NATO allies co-operate on GBAD and C-RAM NATO defence ministers launched co-operation projects on ground-based air defence (GBAD) and rapidly deployable mobile counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) capabilities during a virtual ministerial meeting held on 22–23 October, the alliance...

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) appears to be aiming to expand the use of exoskeleton systems among some of its units to help soldiers carry heavy loads more easily. CCTV 7 footage released on 25 October showing PLA soldiers at the Wuxi Joint Logistic Support Centre carrying 80 kg...

The EU’s two-year pilot programme to support defence capability development should soon release funding for its first round of projects, with the deadline approaching in December for its second and final annual call for proposals, according to the EU official in charge of the initiative. The...

Conflict has a strange way of connecting contradictory issues; the Armenia- Azerbaijan war in the Nagorno Karabakh has timed itself with a debate raging in the UK regarding the future of the tank

Italy is to acquire a Gulfstream G550-based special mission aircraft under plans revealed in the country’s latest multiyear planning document (Documento Programmatico... Italy is to acquire a Gulfstream G550-based special mission aircraft under plans revealed in the country’s latest multiyear...

On Saturday 31 October 2020, an al-Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Iraqiya (Iraqi Air Force) Cessna 172S Skylane crashed during a training mission in Iraq's Salahudin province, sadly killing the pilot and co-pilot. The aircraft belongs to the 202nd Training Squadron, part of the Iraqi Air Force College at...