Thales Reports 10 Percent Increase In Orders For Q1
Thales has announced new orders in the first quarter of 2014 totalled €2,030 million, an increase of 10% compared with the first quarter of 2013 (+13% on a like-for-like basis and at constant exchange rates). At 31 March 2014, the consolidated order book amounted to €24,175 million, nearly two years of
USAF Issues RFP For Mini Crypto Program
The US Air Force is looking to address challenges of secure communications with its Mini Crypto program, Defense Systems reports. The service is seeking cryptographic devices that meet National Security Agency requirements while also falling within low size, weight and power, or SWaP, parameters
BAE Systems Develops App To Help Navigate In And Around Royal Navy...
British engineers constructing the Royal Navys largest ever warships have invented a novel mobile application to help them find their way around one of the most complex workplaces in the world, BAE Systems announced today. Platform Navigation sees employees using an encrypted application to scan one of 3,600 QR codes located...
Sagem Wins SIGMA Navigation Systems Contract From Nexter
Sagem has won a new order from Nexter Systems to supply 37 SIGMA 30 navigation and pointing systems for CAESAR guns, to be delivered to an Asian customer, the company said today. Sagems SIGMA 30 system gives long-range artillery system immediate, high-precision firing capability, since they do not need GPS
Kinetics, L-3 CPS Sign Agreement To Manufacture InfiniDrive HMX Transmissions
Kinetics Drive Solutions Inc. has signed an agreement with L-3 Combat Propulsion Systems, which provides L-3 CPS with a manufacturing license for the Kinetics HMX Series of Infinitely Variable Transmissions
Camero To Supply Xaver100 Systems To South Asian Customer
Camero announced a contract for the supply of its Xaver100 systems to an unidentified South Asian customer at DEFEXPO 2014. The contract is presumed to have been awarded by India, following its previous purchase and successful integration of the Xaver400, although Camero refuses to identify its customer
Rockwell Collins To Unveil Next-Generation Radios At Singapore Air Show 2014
Rockwell Collins will showcase its next-generation radios in addition to MultiScan ThreatTrack weather radar, the EVS-3000 enhanced vision system and the HeliSure family of products for helicopters at the Singapore Airshow 2014 taking place Feb. 11-16
General Dynamics Delivers Next-Generation D-VEX Systems To Australian Defense Forces
General Dynamics has delivered seven D-VEX next-generation, end-to-end digital video exploitation systems to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and will showcase the same at 2014 Singapore Airshow, February 11-16. The man-portable version of the D-VEX system extends the operational efficiencies of the 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition (20STA) Regiment Royal Australian Artillery and improves the reporting capabilities of the forward-deployed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) specialist team
Lockheed Martin Upgrade US Navy Electronic Warfare Defenses
Lockheed Martin successfully tested the U.S
Electronic And Image Intelligence Collection Systems To Be Installed On F-16s
The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has successfully developed an ELINT (electronic intelligence) and image intelligence collection systems, which are installed on F-16s. On December 30, DAPA (the Defense Acquisition Program Administration) said the ELINT collection system ADD developed would be deployed in the military beginning that day, and the image intelligence collection system, completing development that month, would be installed next year, revealing the development completion of those technologies
iXBlue To Equip UK Tide-Class Tankers With Gyrocompass Systems
iXBlue has won a contract to supply QUADRANS fiber-optic gyrocompass systems for installation aboard the four new Tide Class tankers of the UK Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The systems to be supplied to Kelvin Hughes Limited will be integrated as a sub-system of the Integrated Bridge Systems for delivery to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea where the vessels are under construction
US Sniper Maker Turns Down $15 Million Contract From Pakistan
A US-based weapons company has turned down a $15 million dollar offer to supply sniper systems to Pakistan, arguing that these weapons might end up being used against American soldiers. "Our greatest fear was that our equipment might be used against US troops
French DGA Orders 70 New Generation Fuel Tank Trucks
U.S. Army Awards Lockheed Martin $756M for Hypersonic Weapon System Enhancements
Singapore’s F-16 Crash Caused by Gyroscope Malfunction
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U
Russia's Growing Influence in Africa: Arms Sales and Military Bases
Russia's expanding influence in Africa, demonstrated by arms sales, military deployments, and diplomatic engagements, reflects a significant geopolitical shift on...
Development Trends in Unmanned Surface Vessels
Unmanned surface vessels (USVs) have caught the attention of the world following their spectacular success in sinking Russian warships in...
Have Iran-Israel Missile Attacks Enabled Mutual Deterrence?
Iran's April 13-14 missile strike against Israel marks a paradigm shift in Tehran's approach to Israel; from previously relying on...
Free Flight to Russian Hypersonic Missiles as America's Own Hypersonics Program Delayed to 2027
As Russian Aerospace Forces pummeled Ukrainian positions in mid-March 2024 with hypersonic missiles, the Pentagon's own hypersonics program faces delays,...
Counter-trade, Undisclosed Deals May be Masking Russia’s Arms Export Numbers
A Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SPIRI) report last week reported a steep fall in Russias arms exports- pushed to...