by JVanDomelen | Mar 31, 2016 | Air, Featured, Rotary Wing, Unmanned
SANTIAGO, CHILE, March 30, 2016 – FT Sistemas has selected Rockwell Collins to provide its Micro Inertial Navigation Sensor (INS) for the new FT-200FH unmanned Category 2 helicopter. The agreement between the companies was announced at the FIDAE 2016 air show in the...
by JVanDomelen | Mar 25, 2016 | Air, Featured, Rotary Wing, Unmanned
DUBAI, March 21, 2016 — MarchChina’s armed CH-3 and CH-4 drones have recently made international news, being used by nations that range from Iraq to Nigeria. And now NORINCO, one of China’s leading defense contractors, is getting in on the...
by JVanDomelen | Mar 17, 2016 | Featured, Land, Unmanned
DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program, which developed a self-steering bullet to increase hit rates for difficult, long-distance shots, completed in February its most successful round of live-fire tests to date. An experienced shooter using the...
by JVanDomelen | Mar 11, 2016 | Air, Featured, Fixed Wing
WASHINGTON, March 11, 2016 — The US Air Force has begun studying future close air support (CAS) aircraft to succeed the Fairchild Republic A-10 as the Pentagon evaluates the weaponry it needs for “prolonged operations” of one year or more. Continue...
by JVanDomelen | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, Land, Track
United Kingdom, March 7, 2016 — General Dynamics Land Systems-UK inaugurated its new Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) facility at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. The facility, which will undergo significant refurbishment...