Yearly Archive: 2020

The Democratic Progressive Party has done nothing to its credit since taking office in Taiwan region, with a particularly striking lack of vision on the island’s economic growth and long-term development.

Within the island, the DPP’s TWD 880-billion (USD 30.8 billion) Forward-looking Infrastruct…

Rheinmetall’s advanced MK-82-EP general purpose aircraft bomb has recently scored major successes in France and Germany. France’s procurement authority, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), has already placed the first serial production orders for the MK82-EP, which are earmarked for the Mira…

AUSTRALIA — Boeing recently completed flight tests with five high-performance surrogate jets operating autonomously in a team at the new Queensland Flight Test Range in Cloncurry, Australia.

Boeing’s advanced autonomy technology, including on-board command and control and data sharing capabilit…

Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, approved on November 4, 2020 the acquisition of three, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning and control aircraft.

Led by the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), this acquisition will be made under a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement with the U…

ARLINGTON, Texas — The U.S. Navy has selected L3Harris Technologies to participate in phase two of a demonstration to identify and evaluate unmanned aerial systems capable of operating in austere deployed environments without additional support systems.

L3Harris was one of two teams selected by…

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — A team of U.S. Army and academic researchers developed a novel design to automatically adjust aircraft rotor blade positions while already in-flight, a tactic that could improve turbine engine performance.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Develop…