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Paris Air Show 2025: GA-ASI unveils the PELE air-launched UAV

The air-launched PELE has been designed to extend the sensing capabilities of the MQ-9B and its user service through various payloads.

Paris Air Show 2025: Portugal signs for sixth C-390 Millennium aircraft with 10 options for future European acquisition

Portugal was the second country to purchase the C-390 Millennium aircraft for its air force, originally signing for five aircraft in 2019. This order marks the first time an operator has signed an additional order for the C-390.

Naval Warfare

Ireland orders Thales towed array sonar

Ireland has a large Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) which extends 370km (200nm) offshore and contains 75% of the transatlantic subsea cables which carry $10 trillion in financial transactions daily. The country is investing to increase protection and surveillance of these waters.

Land Warfare

Paris Air Show 2025: MBDA bets on carmaker to help make new one-way effector

The One-Way Effector (OWE) is a ground-launched missile or drome designed to act as a swarm to overwhelm air defence systems. It was displayed for the first time in Paris this week.

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Uncrewed Vehicles

French Ministry of Interior Awards Light UAS Study Contract to UVS International

1st December 2008

Recently, the French Ministry of Defence, Direction Générale de la Police Nationale, Services des Technologies de la Sécurité Interieur, notified the award of a study …
Uncrewed Vehicles

iRobis Announces Complete Cognitive Software System for Robots

1st December 2008

Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia (iRobis) has announced that the world's first "complete cognitive software system for robotics" is ready for application. The system turns …
Uncrewed Vehicles

SeeByte Becomes Newest Manufacturer in ETS Rental Pool

28th November 2008

Agreements were signed this week between SeeByte, an innovative software solutions manufacturer, and Equipment & Technical Services (ETS), a Houston-based marine equipment and support services …
Uncrewed Vehicles

ASTRAEA reaches initial goals despite future uncertainty

27th November 2008

Last month, the initial three year Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment (ASTRAEA) project aimed at the ambitious target of opening the UK's …
Defence Helicopter

Lockheed Martin awarded $500M more for VH-71 Presidential Helicopter development

27th November 2008

Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $500,000,000 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-05-C-0030) to provide additional funds for engineering …
Defence Helicopter

Meeker Aviation and AirFilm Camera Systems introduce Blawkhawk / S-70 sponson mount

27th November 2008

Meeker Aviation and AirFilm Camera Systems are pleased to introduce the latest addition to our line of products, our new Blawkhawk / S-70 sponson mount …
Defence Helicopter

Rolls-Royce awarded $11M contract for OH-58 Kiowa engine repair/overhaul

27th November 2008

Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, Ind., was awarded on Nov 20, 2008 a, $11,050,725 firm fixed price contract, to analyze, test, repair and overhaul of 117 each …
Defence Helicopter

Canada Increases Helicopter Capabilities in Afghanistan

27th November 2008

The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, today announced that eight CH-146 Griffon helicopters will be deployed …
Defence Helicopter

US/Alabama: WestWind Technologies Breaks Ground on Innovative Aircraft Facility at Huntsville

27th November 2008

WestWind Technologies, Inc. (WestWind) broke ground today on its new Huntsville Aircraft Modification & Integration Center at the Huntsville International Airport. Mayor Tommy Battle of …
Defence Helicopter

BAE Systerms awarded $22M contract for CH-47 warning systems

27th November 2008

BAE Systems, Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc., Nashua, NH was awarded on Sept 25, 2008, a fixed price contract for $11,221,000.00 with a not …
Defence Helicopter

Northstar Aerospace to divest its Pratt & Whitney repair and overhaul operation

26th November 2008

Northstar Aerospace Inc. announced plans today to divest its Pratt & Whitney repair and overhaul operation, Northstar Aerospace Turbine Engine Service Group, Inc. located in …
Defence Helicopter

Systems Integration Labs for Presidential Helicopter Program Fully Capable at U.S. Navy Base in Maryland

26th November 2008

Lockheed Martin has attained full function capability in all the systems integration laboratories that support the VH-71 presidential helicopter program, after completing the Master Systems …
Uncrewed Vehicles

QinetiQ North America rolls out a robotic first: the field-transformable Dragon Runner robot

26th November 2008

QinetiQ North America's Technology Solutions Group has launched its new Dragon Runner Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV). Dragon Runner SUGV is the first fully modular …
Defence Helicopter

Eurocopter delivers the first EC135 helicopter manufactured in Albacete, Spain

26th November 2008

Lutz Bertling, President and CEO of Eurocopter and Juan Carlos Martinez Saiz, CEO of Eurocopter in Spain, handed over the first EC135 manufactured in Albacete …
Defence Helicopter

Rotair Receives U.S. Coast Guard Contract

26th November 2008

Rotair Industries, Inc. today announced the signing of a $1.2 million contract to provide the U.S. Coast Guard with rotor head hydraulics components for its …
Uncrewed Vehicles

GRL sells simulator to CTC Marine Projects

25th November 2008

GRL has supplied a ROVolution simulator to North East-based CTC Marine Projects a subsea contractor specialising in the trenching of subsea pipelines and cables worldwide. …
Uncrewed Vehicles

Rheinmetall develops USV for German Navy

25th November 2008

The German Navy has contracted with Rheinmetall Defence to retrofit and supply it with a robotic boat capable of carrying out a variety of missions. …
Defence Helicopter

Boeing Mesa Site Earns Environmental Certification

25th November 2008

Boeing today announced that its Rotorcraft Systems facility in Mesa has earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14001 certification, making it the latest Boeing site …
Defence Helicopter

AgustaWestland Delivers M-TADS Equipped Apache AH Mk.1s

25th November 2008

During a ceremony held at AgustaWestland's Yeovil facility today, the first two Apache AH Mk.1s equipped with a new sighting and targeting system were handed …