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Russia Likely To Sign Contract With China On Heavy-Lift Chopper

June 16, 2017 @ 10:31 AM

Russia's Rostec is expecting to sign a general contract to joinly develop a heavy-lift helicopter with China by end of this year. The development of a heavy-lift helicopter with a take-off...

Malaysia Modifies Su-30MKM Aircraft To Drop US-made GBU-12 Laser-guided Bombs

June 16, 2017 @ 10:06 AM

Malaysian Air Force has modified Russian-made Sukhoi-30 fighter jet in order to equip it with US GBU-12 laser-guided bombs. The Royal Malaysian Air Force put out a video showing their Su-30MKM...

General Dynamics Awarded US$ 250 Million For ‘Prophet System’

June 16, 2017 @ 04:52 AM

General Dynamics Mission Systems was yesterday awarded a $250,000,000 hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to modify, test, train and sustain the Prophet System. Work locations and funding will be determined with each...

France, Germany, Singapore To Receive Lockheed Martin GMLRS Alternative warhead

June 16, 2017 @ 04:35 AM

Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control was yesterday awarded a $471,731,858 foreign military sales (Finland, France, Germany, and Singapore) contract for guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) full-rate production 12...

US Air Force Fighter Wings Field Test F-35A Ammunition Loader

June 15, 2017 @ 04:51 PM

The US Air Forces first F-35 Lightning II operational wing has recently received five F-35A bulk ammunition loaders for field use. Airmen extensively tested one of the loaders June 6-9, 2017,...

Saab's Gripen-E Fighter Jet Makes Maiden Flight

June 15, 2017 @ 04:50 PM

Saab's first prototype Gripen-E fighter has completed its first flight from the company's Linköping site in Sweden 13 months after its official roll-out. Performed by test pilot Marcus Wandt on 15 June, the aircraft flight lasted...

CIA Hacks D-Link, Belkin And Linksys Router Brands

June 15, 2017 @ 03:26 PM

WikiLeaks has published documents from the Central Intelligence Agency that details about CherryBlossom tool that exploits popular brands of routers such as D-Link, Belkin and Linksys companies. The CherryBlossom tool is used to monitor the Internet...

DARPA Creating Network Isolation Tech To Protect US Public Data, Networks

June 15, 2017 @ 03:21 PM

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is creating network isolation and threat-characterization technologies to protect American data, networks and national security. DARPAs acting director Steven H

India Scraps $1 Billion Deal To Buy 16 Multirole Choppers From US-based

June 15, 2017 @ 02:35 PM

The Indian Defense Ministry has scrapped $1 billion deal to buy 16 helicopters for the navy from US based Sikorsky and will merge the procurement with a Make in India program to produce 140 Naval...

Blast At Ordinance Factory In India Kills Two

June 15, 2017 @ 02:06 PM

Two employees of Indian Ministry of Defences Ordnance Factory near Pune were killed in an blast while shifting explosives. The explosion occured in one of the magazines where propellant powder is stored before processing at the...

US Navy To Modernize Obsolete Reagan-Era Frigates For Redeployment

June 15, 2017 @ 12:38 PM

US Navy is eyeing to modernize obsolete Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates to bring it back to service in a move to achieve its goal of a 355-ship fleet. "The move is worth, if the cost of...

ASIO Solution To Transform CJ4 VIP Transport To Special Mission Aircraft

June 15, 2017 @ 12:21 PM

BIRD Aerosystems together with Textron Aviation will present a CJ4 ASIO Special Mission Aircraft (SMA) solution effectively transforms the VIP transport aircraft into a Special Mission Aircraft at the Paris Airshow starting next Friday. The SMA...

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