Yearly Archive: 2020

To guarantee the security of Switzerland and its people, the military must continue to be able to monitor, protect and defend its airspace in the event of an attack. As a neutral state, Switzerland wants to depend as little as possible on third countries or organizations. This independence, and ther…

MOSCOW — Russian Helicopters holding company (part of Rostec State Corporation) started serial production of Mi-8AMT Arctic helicopters for civilian customers. Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant made the first rotorcraft which is ready to start operation.

Mi-8AMT helicopter in its Arctic version completed…

The Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin, attended today the completion of factory reception of the 0-series of the modernized “Oganj” rocket launcher and the test firing in the “Nikinci” Weapons and Military Equipment Testing Centre.

As Minister Vulin pointed out after the firing, rocket artill…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Navy published this week the formal announcement of a change to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV). The change, published by Director of Navy Staff (DNS) Andrew Haeuptle, provides for a new 3-star-led organization, currently under the leadership of Vice Adm. S…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.— Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business will build two prototype sensor payloads for DARPA’s Blackjack program, under a $37M contract. Blackjack is a low Earth orbit satellite constellation program that aims to develop and demonstrate the critical elemen…

MADRID — Indra will lead three of the main projects financed by the European Commission within the European Defence Industrial Development Program (EDIDP) and will participate as a partner in two more, strengthening its position as one of the large companies leading the construction of “European D…