DH - Defence Helicopter
Boeing pushes forward with Defiant
Boeing plans to operate the push propulsor on its Defiant SB>1 coaxial helicopter this year after completing the first flight into hover in Q1 2019. ...
MLF - Military Logistics
Boeing lists KC-46A success, defends programme
Boeing is pushing ahead despite hiccups in its KC-46A multirole tanker aircraft contract with the USAF and has just delivered another three on top of ...
DN - Defence Notes
UK P-8A ahead of schedule
For a free 24 hour trial to read this and all our other Premium News Click Here The first UK RAF P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol/multi-mission aircraft is ...
MTSN - Training/Simulation
Boeing T-X jet trainer aircraft set to return to the air
Boeing’s T-X jet trainer aircraft will return to test flights ‘imminently’ following changes as part of the engineering and manufacturing development phase, according to T-X ...
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DN - Defence Notes
Small steps for the Boeing F-15EX
16th May 2019
Boeing’s next-generation F-15EX fighter aircraft has made another small, if potentially feeble, step with inclusion in the US House Appropriations Committee draft FY 2020 defence ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
Persistent Systems shows early developmental model version of new display
6th May 2019
Persistent Systems showed a developmental version of a new rugged display at AUVSI’s Xponential unmanned show in Chicago. Company officials described the unit as ‘the ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
AUVSI 2019: Target becomes transport
1st May 2019
US vehicle engineering company Pratt & Miller Mobility have used its target UGV and associated technologies develop three logistics and cargo UGVs, the Light, Heavy ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
Australia’s Currawong project on track
8th April 2019
Release 3 of the Project Currawong integrated battlefield telecom network for the Australian Army, which will include ‘headquarters on the move’ carried in a Bushmaster, ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
Unmanned Systems Asia 2019: ScanEagle joins the coalface
25th March 2019
Insitu has begun working with Australia’s Shell Queensland Gas Corporation (SQGC) to provide automated surveillance and trouble-spotting of wellheads under a contract signed in early ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
Avalon 2019: New UAVs break cover Down Under
4th March 2019
Indra Australia displayed a new rotary-winged UAV at the Avalon Air Show, and outlined plans to use it for flight calibration and testing the signal ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
Avalon 2019: Secretive Loyal Wingman breaks cover
27th February 2019
Boeing unveiled a new large stealthy UAV at the Avalon Air Show, one designed to act as an escort support for manned aircraft and as ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
Avalon 2019: Kelpie chases service role in Australia
26th February 2019
The Kelpie multirole UGV, unveiled on 25 February at the Avalon Air Show, is expected to reach production standard in 2020. It will be developed ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
AOC 2018: Materials ordered for advanced helicopter EW payload
5th December 2018
Lockheed Martin has begun ordering materials for the EDM1 manufacture of its AN/ALQ-248 advanced offboard EW (AEOW) active mission payload (AMP) following completion of the ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
AOC 2018: Mosaic warfare in the spotlight
4th December 2018
Mosaic warfare, a move away from rigid formations and monolithic platforms, will provide long term benefits such as rapid innovation and greater impact, it emerged ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
AOC 2018: US Army looks to reinvigorate EW capabilities
3rd December 2018
The US Army is undergoing a renaissance after almost two decades of dealing with asymmetric threats, steady periods of budget uncertainty and an increasingly complex ...
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DN - Defence Notes
AOC 2018: Directed energy solutions for high-tech threats
30th November 2018
Directed energy (DE) weapons, such as high-energy lasers (HEL) and high-power microwaves, are possible solutions to higher technology asymmetric threats. While the latter has been ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
AOC 2018: Threats shape EMSO
29th November 2018
The field of Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) has become more complex in the past 20 years with changing threats which pilots and others need to ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
AOC 2018: Blackbird detects among the Crows
28th November 2018
Software and hardware engineering company, TCI is promoting its Blackbird drone detection and geolocation system at the Association of Old Crows conference in Washington DC, ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
AOC 2018: Lockheed's eyes set on digi over analogue contract
27th November 2018
Lockheed Martin this month successfully completed a system requirement review of the digital AN/ALQ-217 ESM system. The company is targeting an EMD contract in 2022 which ...
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DB - Digital Battlespace
AUSA 2018: New generation radio certified
11th October 2018
Rockwell Collins has received Type 1 certification from the US National Security Agency for the sixth generation of its ARC-210 RT-2036(C) networked communications airborne radio. ...
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LWI - Land Warfare
AUSA 2018: New Havoc military variant in development
10th October 2018
Textron Systems displayed an early concept design for a militarised version of its commercial Havoc all-terrain vehicle at AUSA Exhibition in Washington DC on December ...
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MTSN - Training/Simulation
AUSA 2018: Cubic blends the live with the virtual
10th October 2018
US defence and technology company Cubic demonstrated its Live/Virtual Convergence training concept at AUSA in Washington, DC. Described by Cubic Vice-President Ground Training James Craig ...
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DH - Defence Helicopter
AUSA 2018: AH-64E shakes off strap pack nut issues (video)
10th October 2018
Boeing expects to have a fix provided for a major structural risk discovered in Apache AH-64E attack helicopters to all platforms by the end of ...
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UV - Unmanned Vehicles
AUSA 2018: Harris makes a start on UGV deliveries
9th October 2018
Harris has delivered four of its T7 UGVs to the UK Ministry of Defence for qualification under the Project Starter requirement and has begun demonstrating ...
