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Sikorsky’s Raider X High-Speed Helicopter Takes Shape

Sikorsky’s Raider X High-Speed Helicopter Takes Shape

Sikorsky has released new shots of its Raider X prototype aircraft sporting modular weapon launchers loaded with Hellfire missiles and a 20mm main gun.

This prototype Sikorsky’s pitch for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, as seen at the company’s flight test fa…

Saab Unveils First New-Gen Swedish Sub, HMS Blekinge

Saab Unveils First New-Gen Swedish Sub, HMS Blekinge

On Thursday, a bunk bed ceremony was held for HMS Blekinge at Saab Kockum’s shipyard in Karlskrona. The traditional ceremony means that the submarine’s first two main sections are put in place to be welded together, which symbolizes an important milestone in the work of producing the next generation…
NATO Update on Air-Defense Posture on Eastern Flank

NATO Update on Air-Defense Posture on Eastern Flank

RAMSTEIN, Germany –– With the deployment of a surface-to-air missile defence system to Romania, France has further increased its forward footprint in support of NATO’s enhanced vigilance towards potential threat from the East.

The deployment of the French state-of-the-art MAMBA weapons system a…

US Army Tests Laser Weapon to Counter Small UAVs

US Army Tests Laser Weapon to Counter Small UAVs

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — With Army modernization at the forefront of the service’s priorities, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, known as YPG, serves as a hot spot for on-going high energy laser tests that can cook small, unmanned aircraft systems out of the sky.

The Army Rapid Capabilities an…

Textron to Supply Eight T-6C Turboprop Trainers to Tunisia

Textron to Supply Eight T-6C Turboprop Trainers to Tunisia

Textron Aviation Defense, Wichita, Kansas, has been awarded a $90,686,042, bilateral modification (PZ0011) to previously awarded FA8617-C-21-6235 for the Tunisia T-6C aircraft procurement effort.

The contract modification is for procurement of eight T-6C aircraft, spare parts, spare engines, air…

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