Aircraft
Unique Collaboration in C-130J Training
French and German C-130J Super Hercules aircrews and maintainers will train in a facility located in France, built and equipped by Lockheed Martin, the...
How will the UAE Use the New MQ-9B UAVs?
The controversial sale of US weapons to the UAE within the framework of the peace agreement with Israel included some unmanned air verhicles. Up...
South Korea Enhancing its Search and Rescue Capabilities
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has completed deliveries of the eight KUH-1M Surion utility helicopters configured for medical evacuation (medevac) missions that were ordered by...
Heavy Lift Helicopters will be Supplied to US Navy
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company will build six additional production CH-53K King Stallion helicopters under a new contract for the U.S. Navy. The aircraft...
Japan is Enhancing its Electronic Warfare Capabilities
Military actions today depend on the effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum to surveil and assess the battlespace, to protect friendly forces and equipment,...
Meet World’s Largest Helicopter Water Tanker
The wildfires that have ravaged California have already consumed 4m acres. The unprecedented figure is more than double the previous record for the most...
Elbit to Provide Helicopter Systems to U.S. Army
Elbit Systems’ ANVIS HUD - Aviators’ Night Vision Imaging System Head-Up Display system - is a day and night display system that connects to...
New Helicopter Chosen by Austrian Armed Forces
The Austrian Armed Forces (the Bundesheer) is replacing its Alouette III helicopter fleet. It will procure 18 AW169M helicopters in cooperation with Italy. The...
Israeli-Italian Defense Agreement Signed
Within the framework of a reciprocal procurement agreement, the Israel Ministry of Defense will purchase five advanced training helicopters from Italy, increasing the Air...
AR to Save Time in Aircraft Maintenance
The dynamic and highly variable nature of the aircraft inspection environment brings challenges to implementing object and photo recognition to determine discrepancies in aircraft...
Unmanned Player Joins Air-to-Air Combat Arena
The US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone is about to become a "fighter plane" after successfully destroying a drone cruise missile target with the...
Candidate Wanted for US Helicopter Program
Eight military forces around the world have already expressed interest in the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The program aims at developing a...
Future of Air Combats – Teaming or Competition?
Will artificial intelligence replace military pilots or rather team with them? “I don’t see human pilots being phased out, I see them being enhanced,...
Technological R&D Cooperation – Israel MoD Delegation Took Off to Germany
A delegation of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD), has taken off this morning on a flight to Berlin, for the annual Strategic Defense...
Autonomy in VTOL Transport Setting
Autonomy is more and more employed in the vertical takeoff and landing field. An intelligent autonomy system has been developed for the K-MAX helicopter,...
New Force Multiplier for ISR Missions
An optionally-piloted (OPV) aircraft able to fly with or without a human crew on board represents a hybrid between a conventional piloted aircraft and...
Soon: Self Healing Military Platforms
By tweaking the chemistry of a single polymer, researchers at Texas A&M University and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory...
Egozi: The Embargo on Iran – the World Against the US and Israel
By Arie Egozi
Iran is deceiving most of the world, not because it is smarter but because the rest of the world or most of...
New Chinese Anti-Tank Guided Missile Exposed
A new Chinese helicopter-launched anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) has been exposed. The missile was used in training exercises by the aviation units of the...
New Tech for US Special Operations
The US Army has purchased from Boeing Nine more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters for its Special Operations Aviation Command. The service is expected...
Fighter Aircraft Completes First Flight
The operational version of the M-346 Fighter Attack (M-346FA) has completed its first flight with Grifo radar. The M-346FA is designed as a light...
Real-Time Actionable Intelligence – Firebird Demonstrating its Capabilities
An intelligence-gathering aircraft which can be flown remotely or by a pilot has completed capability demo flights. Northrop Grumman’s optionally-piloted aircraft, the Firebird, completed...
