Defense

Partnerships and investment were the theme of the day at the IDEX and NAVDEX show in Abu Dhabi as the SHOW BUSINESS daily reports.

Jeff Shockey, Raytheon Technologies’ senior vice president for global government relations, has been speaking at IDEX about his company’s ongoing commitment to the Middle East.

BAE Systems’ training capabilities go well beyond the supply of hardware but, as Alan Warnes reports, the famous Hawk shouldn’t be written off just yet.

Boeing is currently promoting several platforms to the region, with the KC-46A Pegasus multi-role air-to-air refuelling aircraft among them.

A new centre of excellence for uncrewed systems is to open at Tawazun Industrial Park (TIP) to support the UAE Armed Forces.

Bentzion Levinson, founder and CEO of Heven Drones, is passionate about uncrewed air vehicles and the company’s mission to help solve ‘everyday problems’ with their use.

At the IDEX show in Abu Dhabi, TATV''s Mark Pilling talks to Philipp von Michaelis, the chief executive of Global Clearance Solutions (GCS).

UK manufacturer Cummins is at IDEX to unveil a new 540 horsepower engine geared up for defence applications.

Indonesia acquired five Super Hercules via Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) as part of the country’s massive air force modernization effort.

Aero India highlights India’s ambition to move beyond simple assembly to creating advanced, exportable aircraft design.

Vast Space, a startup attempting to develop a space station with artificial gravity, has acquired Launcher.

Serbia is continuing negotiations with France’s Dassault Aviation about the purchase of Rafale fighters.

The United Arab Emirates is understood to have gone through with a controversial deal to buy Chinese advanced jet trainers.

As the USAF looks to develop uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft to fly with future fighters, the service is also rethinking how it organizes these fleets.

Boeing, Saab and Northrop Grumman have responded to a NATO request for information for airborne early warning aircraft.

The UK Royal Navy is eyeing plans to integrate a rotary-wing uncrewed air system on all of its surface vessels.

UAE defense companies are showing off systems that if fielded could move the country into the category of makers of large autonomous combat aircraft.

Russia’s Roscosmos Space Corp. has rescheduled the launch of the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spaceship to the International Space Station to an earlier date.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Feb. 21 that his country would formally suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty.

The future of access to space may lie with equatorial launch sites that could make launch windows a thing of the past.

With royal approval for the record-breaking IDEX and NAVDEX event in Abu Dhabi, the opening day saw multi-billion deals confirmed.

UK company Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has appointed of Chris Walton as managing director of Marshall Middle East.

Edge’s new Halcon Systems Reach-S uncrewed aerial vehicle is on display equipped with four 30kg Desert Sting-16 munitions.