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• DH - Defence Helicopter

  PDAS flies on V-280 Valor

  19th April 2019

  Lockheed Martin's Pilotage Distributed Aperture Sensor (PDAS) system has flown aboard Bell Helicopter's V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft in Fort Worth, Texas, the company announced on ...

• MTSN - Training/Simulation

  US Army to open MSAR in American Samoa

  19th April 2019

  The US Army is set to open its first indoor training rifle range, a Modular Small Arms Range (MSAR), at the Army Reserve in American ...

• NWI - Naval Warfare

  Sweden's new SIGINT vessel launched in Poland

  19th April 2019

  At the launch ceremony of the Royal Swedish Navy’s future SIGINT vessel at the PGZ Stocznia Wojenna in Gdynia, northern Poland, officials from Sweden’s Saab ...

• DB - Digital Battlespace

  IAI launches Opal system

  19th April 2019

  Israel Aerospace Industries has launched its new Opal system for establishing real time connectivity and data sharing between different platforms - including manned and unmanned ...

• DN - Defence Notes

  Podcast: NATO's electronic warfare challenge, the latest from Asia-Pacific and the pervasive cyber threat

  19th April 2019

  Welcome to Episode 13 of The Weekly Defence Podcast. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. Sign up to an early email alert of future podcasts here.

• UV - Unmanned Vehicles

  The future of DARPA's CODE

  19th April 2019

  The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has seen strong interest from military and industrial operators in its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) ...

• MLF - Military Logistics

  Australia seeks engineering support vehicles

  19th April 2019

  The Australian Department of Defence has issued a request for tender (RfT) for engineering support vehicles including earthmoving and material handling equipment. Under Project Land ...

• DB - Digital Battlespace

  Quad A 2019: Hughes detects DoD anti-jamming SATCOM push

  18th April 2019

  Broadband satellite network provider, Hughes expects the US Navy and US Army to concentrate their SATCOM programmes on reviewing and procuring anti-jamming capabilities, as each ...

• UV - Unmanned Vehicles

  France joins maritime unmanned systems project

  18th April 2019

  NATO has announced that France has joined a multinational effort to cooperate on the development of maritime unmanned systems. Launched in October 2018, the project ...

• NWI - Naval Warfare

  US Navy to move railgun to major test range

  18th April 2019

  The US Navy is gearing up to ship its electromagnetic railgun (EMRG) prototype to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for its next test ...

• DN - Defence Notes

  Hensoldt to acquire Nexeya activities

  18th April 2019

  Hensoldt is set to acquire Nexeya’s test and integration and services business as well as major parts of its mission management and power conversion businesses. ...

• MLF - Military Logistics

  Latvia plans to modernise its utility vehicle fleet

  18th April 2019

  The Latvian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced its intention to procure a series of tactical trucks in order to enhance the mobility and operational ...

• NWI - Naval Warfare

  SeaSpider heads to Canada

  18th April 2019

  Atlas Elektronik Canada has signed an agreement with Magellan Aerospace for the design and development phase of the SeaSpider Anti Torpedo Torpedo (ATT) programme, the ...

• DH - Defence Helicopter

  Finishing touches for Spanish Navy’s AB-212 upgrades

  18th April 2019

  Whilst delivery of the seven modernised AB-212 helicopters for the Spanish Navy is complete, Sener, one of the parties on the upgrade programme, continues in ...

• DN - Defence Notes

  North Korea's Kim oversees test of new weapon with 'powerful warhead'

  18th April 2019

  North Korea's Kim Jong Un has supervised the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a ‘powerful warhead’, state media reported 18 April, in the ...