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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) rolled out the first XSH-60L, serial 8501, at Nagoya today, 1 October 2020. The new Seahawk is the successor to the SH-60L, which is at the moment replacing the last of the SH-60Js in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The exact...

Hyundai Rotems’s K808 armored personnel carrier (Hyundai Rotem) Hyundai Rotem said Tuesday it has signed a contract worth 407.7 billion won ($348.4 million) with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration to supply wheeled armored vehicles by 2023. According to the rolling stock and arms...

The US Army has greenlit initial production of an Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (IM-SHORAD) system, and awarded General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) with a USD1.2 billion contract to build the new vehicles. The service announced the deal on 30 September and said it will run through...

AJAX is the next-generation of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV). Fully-digital and fully-integrated, it enables to soldier to ‘See First, Decide First, Act First’ on the modern battlefield. Providing best-in-class protection and survivability, reliability and mobility, and all-weather...

Lebanese Armed Forces' A-29 Super Tucano aircraft The Pentagon has awarded Sierra Nevada a deal valued $15 million for maintenance of Lebanese A-29 aircraft. “This contract does not currently include any FMS aircraft production. The first task order will be awarded for the sustainment of the...

First complex fiber composite component enables light and safe canopy structure for RACER It is over 400 km/h fast and built to transport people safely and sustainably: The RACER ("Rapid And Cost-Efficient Rotorcraft"), an innovative high-speed technology demonstrator, is designed to achieve...

The contract for an Asia-Pacific customer will be performed by the Israeli defense electronics company over 12-months. Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) announced today that it has been awarded a contract worth $33 million to supply tactical...

GE’s T901 engine ahead of schedule with critical design review complete GE Aviation, in cooperation with the United States Army, successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) in July for the T901-GE-900, GE’s next-generation engine that will power a large portion of the Army’s...

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has completed the first high-altitude flight trial of its AR500C vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the company announced on its official Weibo social media account on 27 September. AVIC stated that the trial...

The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Switzerland of forty (40) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $6.58 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required...

The new Solo Türk support aircraft, CN235M-100 serial 92-055 (construction number C-055) was photographed at Ankara/Etimesgut on 29 September 2020. Its is not known if this CN235M replaced the Lockheed C-130E Hercules (serial 63-13187) in this role or has been added as a support aircraft. Of...

A longer-range anti-ship missile variant of Iran’s Fateh-110 family of solid-propellant ballistic missiles was shown for the first time when the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) opened the National Aerospace Park in Tehran to display the military equipment it has developed. A Zolfaghar...

Chinese state-owned television revealed on 27 September that since early 2020 the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) has been deploying a new surface-to-air missile (SAM) with at least some of its HQ-17A road-mobile short-range air-defence (SHORAD) systems. A PLAGF HQ-17A 6×6 SHORAD...

The US Army ‘successfully’ pushed the unmanned-unmanned teaming envelope at Project Convergence 2020 by releasing multiple Area-I’s Altius-600 air-launched effects (ALEs) to communicate and provide target acquisition information to other drones like the MQ-1 Gray Eagle. After six weeks of...

Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) – one of South Korea’s most prominent naval shipbuilders – has announced that the state-owned Korea Development Bank (KDB), its main creditor and largest shareholder, is looking to sell its stake in the company. HHIC, based in Busan, said in a...

As part of its budget request for fiscal year 2021, Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has asked the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo for JPY1.2 billion (USD11.4 million) to push ahead with the co-development of a Joint New Air-to-Air Missile (JNAAM) with the United Kingdom. This funding request is...

First Rafale F3R Standard flight with Indian, French pilots The first flight of the French Air Force (FAF) Rafale jet in the F3R standard-equipped with the new generation Talios Targeting Pod- took off in the skies of Mons, France today. A unique feature of the mission was that an Indian air...

In conjunction with the Air National Guard (ANG), the Air Force Reserve Command Test Center (AATC) and Ultra Electronics, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) successfully completed initial operational assessment of the Rosetta Echo Advanced Payloads (REAP) pod on an MQ-9 Remotely...

he UK Royal Navy’s new upgraded Spearfish torpedo is on the cusp of entering service after extensive trials in Scotland. The upgraded Spearfish was ‘fired’ repeatedly at Type 23 frigate HMS Sutherland (F81) as scientists, engineers and sailors study its performance. Over four days on special...