Europe spends $1.4m to camouflauge its land systems, helping to protect air defences and consequently their critical national infrastructure.
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Kongsberg have won two contracts from Norway for modernising the NASAMS air defence system and developing a tactical radio.
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GE Aerospace is working with the US government to secure the necessary export authorisation for the joint production of its F414-INS6 engine with India. (GE Aerospace)
The leaders of the United States and India have announced agreements to accelerate defence industrial co-operation including the potential joint production of General Electric (GE) F414 engines for future combat aircraft.
The agreements were made following discussions between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington on 22 June.
Raytheon Australia has conducted a flight test of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. The above picture shows NASAMS from a live-fire exercise in the US. (Kongsberg)
Raytheon Australia has conducted a flight test of a short-range ground-based air-defence (SRGBAD) system at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia, the company said in a press release on 20 June.
According to Raytheon, the “successful” flight test demonstrated the SRGBAD system’s “accuracy and capability” to detect, track, and engage with targets.
The contract value is in the “lower-two-digit million-euro” range, according to platform manufacturer Rheinmetall.
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The Aarok UAV prototype displayed at the Paris Air Show 2023, demonstrated with various French payloads and capabilities. (Janes/Olivia Savage)
Turgis & Gaillard has unveiled a new medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called Aarok at the Paris Air Show 2023, held from 19 to 25 June.
Hanwha Systems will partner with Leonardo to develop AESA radars for export. Hanwha Systems has earlier developed AESA radars for South Korea’s KF-21 fighter aircraft (pictured) in collaboration with the ADD. (Defense Acquisition Program Administration)
South Korea’s Hanwha Systems has signed an agreement with Leonardo to collaborate on the development and export of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars for light combat aircraft (LCA).
On June 15, 2023, a convoy of white soldiers hit an improvised explosive device near Keibané, Mali, killing two and wounding eleven. They brutally retaliated against local villagers, killing five, including the local village chief. Unfortunately, this kind of savagery is nothing new for many in Mali, the Central African Republic, Libya, and other countries in Africa where the Wagner Group, a Russian-backed and oligarch-supported mercenary group, has taken up residence.
A rendering of the Stingray very low Earth orbit space vehicle. (EOI Space)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking industry input on the viability of developing and fielding very low Earth orbit (VLEO) satellites for use by the US armed forces, according to a pair of recent solicitations.
JS Atago, USS Benfold, and ROKS Yulgok Yi seen here conducting a trilateral BMD exercise in the Sea of Japan. (JMSDF)
Japan’s Aegis-equipped destroyers that are presently deployed for ballistic missile defence (BMD) duties will revert to air-defence roles once the country operates dedicated BMD vessels.
This is according to information provided by the Japanese Ministry of Defense’s (MoD’s) press office in response to questions from
Janes
on the country’s future sea-based BMD capabilities.