Air News & Articles

Inmarsat Unveils New LAISR Ultra-Lightweight User Terminal for ISR Missions

The L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Ultra-Lightweight (LAISR ULW) terminal provides high data rate throughput to support BLOS communications, while further reducing the total terminal size, weight and power (SWaP)

Apr 28, 2023
Partnership to Explore French Light Fast Jet Defense Market

AERALIS and SDTS will target upcoming contracts in French defense operational training and combat air support roles

Apr 28, 2023
Advanced AI Integrated into Trillium Gimbals for ISR Missions 

All Trillium Engineering gimbals now support the ability to detect, track, and classify objects in both the visible and infrared spectrums with a human ‘on the loop’, instead of having to always be ‘in the loop’

Apr 27, 2023
Quantic X-Microwave Contracted to Deliver 3U OpenVPX Card Assemblies

Electronic warfare applications must operate in harsh and rugged environments and defense contractors are now adopting the 3U OpenVPX platform as the primary format for housing critical circuits

Apr 26, 2023
Airbus Unveils H125 Military Helicopter Variants

New offerings complement the military helicopters already produced by Airbus, the AH-125 Ares will be configured as the armed variant of the helicopter, while the MH-125 Ares will be configured as a multi-role helicopter

Apr 26, 2023
Safran Wheels & Brakes Selected for Eurodrone 

Safran Landing Systems will design, develop, qualify and produce the work package including wheels, brakes and hydro-mechanical equipment, and supply the braking control module, for the Eurodrone reconnaissance drone

Apr 26, 2023
Airborne Missile Protection System Manufacturing Agreement Signed 

Sierra Nevada Corporation will manufacture BIRD Aerosystems’ Airborne Missile Protection Systems in the US to pursue US DoD markets, foreign military sales to US allied nations and international commercial markets

Apr 25, 2023
US Army Contracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Tank Ammunition Components

The multi-year contract will see Aerojet Rocketdyne provide components for the M829A4, an armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding-sabot, tracer round fired from the US Army's M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank

Apr 24, 2023
RAF to Develop Sustainable Fuel Technology Test Aircraft

Two experimental flying test aircraft will be developed under Project Monet, an initiative drawing together expertise from across the Royal Air Force (RAF) and industry to evaluate how technologies can meet key military requirements

Apr 21, 2023
UK MoD Selects Serco to Maintain & Operate Air Defense Radars

The contract involves maintenance and day-to-day operation of remote radar heads over the next five years covering five sites including Brizlee Wood and Benbecula

Apr 21, 2023
US Army Awards Raytheon $237 Million Counter-UAS Contract

The systems will play an important part of the US Army's Low, slow, small-unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System (LIDS), with Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) providing advanced 360-degree threat detection, and Coyote low-cost effectors defeating drones

Apr 21, 2023
Advancing Defense Capability Through Strategic Collaboration Defense Advancement works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive defense capabilities forward.