Local Manufacturing
New UAV Exporter Emerges
In recent years, Turkey has been locally developing various unmanned aerial systems (UAVs). Now it is also enhancing its status as a UAV exporter,...
New Asian Combat Drone Under Development
A combat drone developed by Taiwan’s top military research unit is undergoing initial flight tests before it enters combat testing in June.
Tests of the...
Turkey is Testing a New Laser Drone
A new laser-equipped drone was tested by the Turkish military. The bomb disposal drone is capable of penetrating a carbon steel plate using a...
Turkish Navy Gets Locally-Made UAV
The Turkish Navy received its 1st Aksungur MALE UAV from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI).
Ismail Demir, Turkey’s top procurement official, emphasized the drone’s significant payload...
Technological Manpower Shortage – Global Challenge
IT executives see the talent shortage as the most significant adoption barrier to 64% of emerging technologies, compared with just 4% in 2020, according...
“Largest Contract” in Polish Defense Industry’s History
Poland kicks off a new locally-made air defense system. The Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) consortium signed what may be the most important contract in...
Ground Operations with Less Risk to Human Lives – IAI to Continue Developing ‘Carmel’
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been selected by Israel’s Ministry of Defense (IMoD) as the prime contractor and integrator for developing the concept and...
New Turkish UAV Unveiled
A new Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been unveiled. Baykar has unveiled a drone that can hover, take off and land vertically (VTOL)....
Turkey Developing New Unmanned Vessel
In recent years, Turkey has been developing more and more military platforms manufactured domestically. An unmanned anti-submarine warfare vessel has been designed and developed...
Will Chip Giant Recover US Defense Industry?
The global shortage of semiconductors sees a large number of industries, ranging from consumer electronics to automotive and defense, struggling to secure key components...
IAI to Resume Production of F-16 Wings for Lockheed Martin
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has resumed the production of F-16 wings for Lockheed Martin, using the assembly line established in the 1980s. IAI recently...
Are US-Made Drones Too Expensive?
The Pentagon-developed camera drones are more expensive and less capable than the Chinese-made ones that they were supposed to replace, according to an internal...
Turkey is Expanding its Indigenous Air Defense
Turkey is set to begin mass production of its Hisar-O+ medium-range air defense system.
Its Hisar A+ missile system has been delivered with all its...
RAFAEL’s Air-to-Air Missile Trialed Successfully by India
India’s Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully trialed the 5th generation Python-5 air-to-air missile (AAM) for the Tejas, India’s indigenous light combat...
Turkey Advancing its Domestic Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle
Turkey is progressing with the domestic development and manufacturing of unmanned combat capabilities. The third prototype for Turkey’s unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) Akıncı...
Turkish Company Developing Next-Gen UAV
Turkey is one of the world’s main manufacturers of drones developing an increasing variety of lethal armed drones, ranging from large, high-flying, bomb-laden ones...
US DoD Criticized for AI Development Pace
The National Security Commission on AI believes that China could soon replace the U.S. as the world’s “AI superpower” and said there are serious...
Turkey is Developing New Defense Technology
Turkey has been leading a policy of manufacturing defense products and parts domestically in order to reduce dependency on imports. To date, the country...
Automated Target Detection in the Future Battlefield – IAI and Matrix Collaboration
In an age of big data, operational systems’ operators are grappling with information influx. Integrating operational scenarios and automated tools with high reliability will...
UAE’s New Defense Technology Unveiled
Swedish company Saab is to unveil its first product developed in the United Arab Emirates
The Rugged Camera Module-Infrared, or RCAM-IR, features an extremely rugged...
US Defense Industries Under Threat
China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture of American F-35 fighter jets and other sophisticated...
Egozi: Political Chaos Impeds Coping with US FMF Consequences for Israel
By Arie Egozi
The Israeli defense industries will have to reorganize to be able to cope with the evolving situation caused by the current Foreign...
