Airbus has recently signed a contract to provide a digital services focus for the maintenance of the Air Refueling Boom System (ARBS) on the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT) fleet. Based on the Airbus suite of digital services SmartForce, this service is intended to support …

Collins Aerospace has supplied the B-52’s engine system components since the 1950s When the United States Air Force (USAF) launched its legendary Boeing-built B-52 bomber in the 1950s, it’s likely no one envisioned that the aircraft would still be flying today – nor that the USAF would decide to continue …

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company (NYSE: LMT), and Boeing (NYSE: BA) today released details of its advanced helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition, known as FLRAA. The aircraft, named DEFIANT X, will be the fastest, most maneuverable and most survivable assault helicopter in history. Combined with …

Turkish defence systems manufacturer Aselsan Elektronik said on Tuesday it opened a new branch in Qatar. The new branch, Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. QSTP-B, will support the company’s expanding activities in Qatar, Aselsan said in a filing with Borsa Istanbul’s public disclosure platform (KAP), Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. …

Saab and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, (FMV), have signed two agreements concerning the next generation of surface ships and corvettes. A Product Definition Phase for the Mid-Life Upgrades (MLU) of five Visby-class corvettes, as well as a Product Definition Phase for the next generation; Visby Generation 2 corvettes. The …

NATO has selected Thales to provide the first certified defence cloud solution that can be deployed in the theatre of operations in less than 24 hours. Thales was selected after a worldwide competitive tendering process on the basis of its defence systems integration know-how. With this contract, the Group enters …

Airbus Helicopters has started in-flight tests on board its Flightlab, a platform-agnostic flying laboratory exclusively dedicated to maturing new technologies. Airbus Helicopters’ Flightlab provides an agile and efficient test bed to quickly test technologies that could later equip Airbus’ current helicopter range, and even more disruptive ones for future fixed-wing …

Missile maker, MBDA and the French Army today demonstrated the beyond visual range (BVR) capability of the drone-guided MMP surface-to-air missile MBDA has carried out the first demonstration of the operational capabilities of LYNKEUS Dismounted, comprising the MMP system in infantry configuration and a Novadem NX70 drone linked via radio …

Thales welcomes France’s ambitious quantum plan, which is crucial to supporting research in this sector. Thales researchers are playing a central role in the quantum revolution and are now developing the next generation of quantum solutions that will shape the world of tomorrow: quantum sensors, quantum communications and post-quantum cryptography. …

Dalia Ziada This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring. A whole decade has passed on the cluster of revolutions that rewrote the reality of the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Yet, it was not a happy decade for most of the countries that went …