One of Irans top nuclear scientists, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was today assassinated by a hit team that fired on his motorcade near Tehran, Iran's defence ministry said. Armed terrorist elements have attacked the car carrying Fakhrizadeh, head of the Defense Ministrys Research and Innovation Organization, the defence ministry said in a statement released on Friday evening
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $4,800,000,000 contract for Global Hawk surveillance drone development, modernization, retrofit and sustainment activities for all Air Force Global Hawk variants, a Pentagon contract announcement said. This contract provides for management, including program, business and technical areas; configuration management, data management, reliability, availability and maintainability
The last three Su-35S fighter jets were delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) recently as part of a five-year contract for 50 such aircraft, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced today. "Specialists of the 485th military office of the Russian Defense Ministry accepted three Su-35S multirole fighter jets of the 4++ generation
A B-1B Lancer recently flew over the skies of Edwards Air Force Base in California carrying an inert AGM-158 JASSM missile under an external pylon for the first time. The development may hint at progress made by the U
German Consortium *FCMS, Spanish Indra and French Thales will develop an innovative suite of sensors that will equip the Future European Combat Air System (FCAS), the pan-European next generation fighter jet, drone and weapons system. The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) on behalf of Germany, Spain and France signed the contract today with Indra which is leader of the industrial consortium in order to incorporate the Sensors as part of the Phase 1 contractual framework
The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, today announced the upcoming notification of the contract for an initial order for seven “Albatros” Maritime Surveillance and Intervention Aircraft (AVSIMAR) aircraft. The “Albatros” is the next generation Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) of the French Air Force with some features in common with the Boeing P8 and could be a competitor to it in future
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The French MoD has issued a request for information seeking a drone payload to detect telecommunication transmitters, identify and map their locations. Significantly, the
Boeing expects Chinas airlines to acquire 8,600 new airplanes valued at $1.4 trillion and commercial aviation services valued at $1
BAE Systems has been awarded a five-year $94 million single-award indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract to deliver advanced technology capability to the U.S