January 2018 - Defense Arabia

Air Force

HÜRKÜŞ-B HAS CONDUCTED THE FIRST TEST FLIGHT

January 31, 2018

HÜRKUŞ-B, which is planned to take its part in the inventory of the Turkish Armed Forces in the middle of […]

Technology

Safran chosen to develop three land robot demonstrators for French armed forces

January 30, 2018

Safran Electronics & Defense has won the contract for a major French defense procurement agency DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) […]

Air Force

Lockheed Martin T-50A Test Pilot Reaches 100 hours

January 26, 2018

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] test pilot Elliott “Hemo” Clemence reached a milestone logging 100 flight hours in the the T-50A, […]

Leonardo

Leonardo delivers first upgraded Al Manama ship to Royal Bahrain Naval Force

January 24, 2018

Manama, 23 January 2017 – Yesterday, during a ceremony in Mina Salman at Royal Bahrain Navy Head Quarter, Leonardo is […]

Air Force

Under Control: U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight-4 Missile Warning Satellite Responding to Commands

January 23, 2018

Satellites’ accuracy and sensitivity for detecting infrared targets significantly exceed specifications. The U.S. Air Force’s 460th Space Wing is now […]

Air Force

KONGSBERG and Patria enter into agreement on Missile Systems

January 16, 2018

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KONGSBERG) and Patria have entered into an agreement to develop opportunities for cooperation on Missile Systems. […]

Naval Forces

Technology breakthrough: Naval Group and Airbus Helicopters responsible for building the first demonstrator of a rotary-wing drone for a warship

January 15, 2018

The DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has just awarded a contract for technology development in the field of rotary-wing drones […]

Air Force

RUAG chosen by AeroGeo for complex onsite aircraft repair events in Siberia

January 9, 2018

RUAG Aviation successfully resolved three separate and highly exacting aircraft maintenance and repair events on behalf of Russian operator AeroGeo […]

Air Force