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What is the Tor-M1?
To learn more about our Defence Insight service, arrange a free trial. With Western officials suggesting that Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was hit by ...
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Podcast: Revolutions in Vertical Flight Episode 1 - The Birth of VTOL
Welcome to Shephard Studio’s podcast series on Revolutions in Vertical Flight, sponsored by our partner Bell. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. The Revolutions in Vertical ...
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Podcast: Revolutions in Vertical Flight Episode 2: The Dawn of the Helicopter
Welcome to Shephard Studio’s podcast series on Revolutions in Vertical Flight, sponsored by our partner Bell. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. The Revolutions in Vertical Flight ...
Naval Warfare
Fleet escort cuts impending as UK's frigate maths fails to add up
The clearest indication yet that the UK RN will see a drop in fleet escort numbers in the coming years has come to light, as ...
Land Warfare
Poland receives first high-mobility vehicles
Poland’s air cavalry and airborne brigades will soon be operating new high-mobility vehicles, after the country’s MoD took delivery of the first batch of the ...
Defence Notes
Podcast: The changing role of the frigate, artificial intelligence on the battlefield, and Leonardo's US Navy helicopter win
Welcome to Episode 2 of the second series of The Weekly Defence Podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. Sign up to an early email alert ...
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Defence Notes
Defence Insight: Year in Review (Video)
In 2019, Defence Insight has been improving its database improving existing content and upgrading the export functionality. In the Sea domain, we expanded the scope ...
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Land Warfare
South Korea pulls the plug on K11 weapon
23rd January 2020
A report recently released by South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense announced the end of S&T; Motiv’s years-long attempt at creating a combination rifle airburst ...
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Naval Warfare
Patria ASW sonar for Pohjanmaa class vessels
22nd January 2020
Patria will design and deliver new anti-submarine warfare (ASW) sonars for the Finnish Navy’s Pohjanmaa class corvettes.The company was awarded a contract for the work ...
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Training
UK adds long-overdue helicopter aircrew training capacity
22nd January 2020
The UK MoD has signed a £183 million ($240 million) Military Flying Training System (MFTS) contract to add capacity to train rotary-wing pilots, filling a long-overdue shortfall. This ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Gray Eagle ER begins new flight demo campaign
22nd January 2020
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has begun a series of internally-funded multi-domain operations (MDO) demonstrations of the Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) UAS. The flight ...
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Digital Battlespace
Viasat awarded US Air Force IDIQ contract
22nd January 2020
Viasat has received an IDIQ contract worth up to $90 million from the US Air Force (USAF) for Battlefield Awareness Targeting System—Dismounted (BATS-D) handheld Link ...
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Training
Saab begins work on T-7A production
22nd January 2020
Saab has commenced assembly production of its section of the T-7A advanced trainer aircraft being built by a Boeing-led team for the US Air Force. ...
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Digital Battlespace
Dstl working on CIRCE project
22nd January 2020
A joint mission to launch miniature sensors that will advance space weather measurement and modelling capabilities is being carried out by the Defence Science and ...
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Defence Helicopter
CMV-22B Osprey in first flight operations
22nd January 2020
The first CMV-22B Osprey aircraft has carried out its first flight operations at Bell’s Amarillo Assembly Center. The aircraft, built by Boeing and Bell Textron ...
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Naval Warfare
Solving the puzzle of shaft line repairs (Studio)
22nd January 2020
This article is brought to you in partnerhsip with Wärtsilä. Shaft lines can endure a range of problems, from everyday wear and tear to serious ...
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Another year of instability amid Middle Eastern power plays
22nd January 2020
The new decade has opened, quite literally, with a bang. The drone strike by the US military on 3 January to kill the head of ...
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Digital Battlespace
Cambridge Pixel introduces ASD-View
22nd January 2020
Cambridge Pixel has added ASD-View to its air surveillance product portfolio as a response to growing demand for the visualisation of ADS-B aircraft data in ...
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Unmanned Vehicles
Innovative Chinese UAVs appear, including a triple-engine platform
22nd January 2020
A large UAV from the Tengden Technology Company in China performed its maiden flight on 16 January, the platform being notable for the three turbocharged ...
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Air Warfare
5GAT in engine run testing
21st January 2020
Sierra Technical Services has carried out engine run testing on the 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT), the company announced on 20 January.STS is developing 5GAT ...
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Training
Royal Navy trains Omani personnel in flight deck operations
21st January 2020
Royal Navy aircraft handlers from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose have carried out flight deck training of personnel from the Royal Navy of Oman. During ...
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Digital Battlespace
Raytheon awarded FAB-T contract modification
21st January 2020
Raytheon has received a contract modification for its work on the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) production contract. The $36.8 million modification was ...
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Defence Helicopter
Indonesia to give its Panthers sharper claws
21st January 2020
After receiving all but one of the 11 AS565MBe Panther helicopters it ordered from Airbus Helicopters in 2014, the Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) is now planning to upgrade ...
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Digital Battlespace
Netherlands' new radar installation under way
21st January 2020
Work has begun at the Netherlands Air Force Air Operations Control Station Nieuw Milligen to install a new Signal Multibeam Acquisition Radar for Targeting, Longrange ...
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Defence Helicopter
Luxembourg receives second H145M
21st January 2020
The second of two H145M helicopters acquired by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency on behalf of the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence has been delivered ...
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Digital Battlespace
BAE Systems proposes purchase of Collins Aerospace and Raytheon business lines
21st January 2020
BAE Systems has reached definitive agreements for the proposed acquisitions of Collins Aerospace’s military Global Positioning System (GPS) business and Raytheon’s Airborne Tactical Radios (ATR) ...
