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The Italian air force has confirmed that it will be the launch customer for the Piaggio Aerospace P.1HH HammerHead unmanned air vehicle, as it commits to purchasing three systems. This will consist of six air vehicles...
Hackers have stolen personal details of up to 80 million people from US health insurer Anthem in what could be the biggest cyber security breach to befall a healthcare provider. Anthem is the second...
Dassault, DCNS and MBDA signed contracts in Cairo respectively for 24 Rafales, a multimission frigate and missiles for Egypt, in a deal worth €5.2 billion (US $5.9 billion). The sale to Egypt is the...
The tragic loss of the Concorde on 25 July 2000 at Charles de Gaulle in Paris serves as a dramatic reminder of just how dangerous foreign objects on the runway can be. The crash...
The British Government has announced the creation of the 77th battalion, a cyber unit composed of soldiers familiar with social media. The cyberspace is a strategic domain for modern warfare, for this reason, the British...
A Conversation with Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Admiral Paul Zukunft spoke on this topic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on January...
Security need for two folds cooperation and synergies both between countries and among the different stakeholders (Defence, Research, Industry, Associations) Rome, 14/1 – The Honourable Domenico Rossi, Italian Under-Secretary of State for Defence, attended,...
The United States and the U.K. will stage cyber “war games” together, starting this year, to boost both countries’ resistance to cyberattacks, n a bid to expose security weaknesses before they are abused by...
The tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program enters 2015 as a candidate for next-generation air and missile defense requirements in both Germany and Poland. MEADS is a primary candidate for the German...
Finmeccanica has entered into a strategic partnership with Russia’s publicly-owned Rosneft oil company and Russian government corporation Rostec: under the agreement, the HeliVert plant near Moscow, a joint enterprise between Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland...
The South Korean vice defense minister, and his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, signed, on Dec. 29, a rare trilateral military arrangement on intelligence sharing about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes According to the...
Event carried out in secret due to threat of Taliban strikes in Afghan capital, which has been hit by repeated bombings. NATO has held a ceremony in Kabul formally ending its war in Afghanistan,...
At the meeting of the Board of Directors on 23 December 2014, Patrice Caine, ex chairman and chief executive second-in-command, and Henri Proglio former EDF chief, were co-opted as directors, following the resignations of...
An Intention Letter was signed between the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s Logistics Centre Woensdrecht (LCW) and the company Airborne Services BV for the shared usage of LCW’s facilities. Airborne provides advanced composite solutions for...
Airbus Helicopters officially launched its new Open Innovation platform at an event attended by Airbus Helicopters’ Executive Vice President of Engineering, the PEGASE center of excellence and a number of French SMEs. The program...
Japan and Australia will be sharing maintenance and upgrade duties for the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter based or operating in the Pacific region, the program executive officer for the aircraft announced today....
Air Systems / C4ISR / ISR
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has planned by end 2015 the return to flight of its revolutionary Airlander 10. The huge buoyant-lift machine, which flew at the Long Endurance Multi-Purpose Vehicle (LEMV), will not be...
The F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter program office announced today the European locations for heavy engine and heavy air frame maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade facilities. The Department of Defense has assigned F-35...
Jerome Bendell, Chief Executive Officer of ThalesRaytheonSystems France, said: “TRS is proud to be contributing with its Ground Master radars to the modernization of France’s air surveillance capability, which is already underway with the...
India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has chosen Sikorsky’s S-70B Seahawk over the NH Industries (NHI) NH90 helicopter to fulfill the Indian Navy’s (IN’s) long-pending Multi-Role Helicopter (MRH) programme. NH90 had been excluded from the...