Elbit CEO Bezhalel Machlis has shed further light on the company’s work to turn the Iron Beam ground-based counter-drone laser system into an airborne application.
Latvia says Russia is interfering with global navigation satellite systems from three sites, impacting flight navigation and airport operations in the region.
The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Sept. 1, 1975, issue featured a full-scale model of the proposed Air Force/Boeing Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) built for integration studies.
The first serial production-representative AW09 single-engine light rotorcraft, codenamed S6, took to the air on Aug. 8 from Leonardo’s Vergiate manufacturing facility near Milan.
China’s aerospace industry is attempting to spread its tentacles all over Africa, even if money for most governments is tight. That’s not a problem though for Beijing, because underwriting deals by taking a share of the customer’s natural minerals instead can always be an option. Alan Warnes reports.
Singapore says it has dropped plans to establish a permanent Boeing F-15SG detachment in Guam following a U.S. disclosure that the basing would not proceed.
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European defense companies have started to glimpse the prospect of unusual, multiyear certainty for their operations.
The British Army has begun to engage with industry on the acquisition of an autonomous collaborative platform to operate alongside its Apache helicopters.
Elbit Systems has secured new orders for air-launched munitions from Israel. A government official says the contract ensures “self-sufficiency in a challenging period.”
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has reached the acceptance and certification phase of the latest update to its Standard Missile 6 Sea-Based Terminal system.
The buy is intended to position Motorola to capture “a multibillion-dollar, rapidly growing addressable market for drone and unmanned systems,” Motorola says.
