The German Bundeswehr has signed a contract with Rheinmetall to supply 130,000 laser light modules worth a potential €178 million. The devices can be mounted via a standard inferface onto all assault rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and sniper rifles currently in the Bundeswehr inventory
A French Director General Armaments (DGA)-supported start-up, Hybrid Propulsion For Space (HyPr Space) has developed an innovative solution making it possible to visually simulate the launch of an enemy surface-to-air missile by generating smoke of the precise amount as seen during an actual launch. Operational missions at low and medium altitude in hostile territory now expose air forces to a more dangerous ground-to-air threat
Russian President Vladimir Putin today unveiled United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)s new single engine stealth fighter jet at the MAKS-2021 air show in Zhukovsky near Moscow called ‘LTS Checkmate Fighter. After the completion of the opening ceremony, the head of state arrived at the exhibition pavilion of the Sukhoi company, where the head of the Rostec State Corporation Sergei Chemezov and the General Director of the United Aircraft Building Corporation Yuri Slyusar presented to Putin the new LTS Checkmate fighter
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MBDA said today it won a contract by Frances Direction Générale de lArmement (DGA) and the UKs Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to lead the new Complex Weapons Innovation Technology Partnership (CW ITP). Dstl signed the contract on behalf of the two nations
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CAE said it will be investing C$1 billion over the next five years on Project Resilience that aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based aviation technologies. It will also provide operational support and training solutions for Advanced Air Mobility, as well as develop green light aircraft technologies
The EU Commission today selected a consortium led by Naval Group Belgium for its Mine Risk Clearance for Europe (MIRICLE) project. The project win was awarded by the company on Twitter Wednesday
A European project to develop unmanned semi-fixed sea platforms for maritime surveillance (USSPS) will be led by Greek company ETME while Naval Group has been selected as a technical coordinator. The USSPS project will develop the backbone of an advance (C5ISTAR) federated system of systems
Russias United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will present a fundamentally new military aircraft on July 20, the first day of the MAKS-2021 International Air Show in Zhukovski, near Moscow. Hints that the new military aircraft could be a fighter jet were revealed as part a Rostec (holding company of UAC) press release, “Russia is one of the few countries in the world that has mastered full-cycle technologies for the production of advanced aircraft systems, as well as a recognized trendsetter in the creation of combat aircraft