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
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
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
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
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
SoarTech is in the final round of the xTechSearch 7 competition with its autonomous platforms entry, Centralized Control of Commercial Drones (C3D), which automates the logistics and control of small UAS
Leidos will develop, deliver and demonstrate an autonomous medium unmanned logistics system - air (MULS-A) prototype, with a view to it performing a logistics distribution mission at the tactical edge of the battlefield
The TRV will provide essential resupply to warfighters in contested environments, reducing the number of troops put in harm's way while assuring logistics resupply to the forward deployed warfighter
Indra’s solution will enable the Royal Australian Air Force to deploy airfield and airspace management capability anywhere in the world for defense, humanitarian aid or disaster relief operations
A Thales Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) was fired from Flyby Technology’s new JACKAL unmanned aircraft in a trial sponsored by the Rapid Capabilities Office of the Royal Air Force
The program is scheduled for launch in 2024, with on-orbit testing planned for 2025, and after on-orbit demonstration, the PTS-P payload will be available to transition for operational use
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