Category: Notizie Estero

MOSCOW — Russian Helicopters holding company (part of Rostec State Corporation) started production of the first pre-production prototype of Mi-171A3 offshore helicopter. Flight tests of the state-of-the-art rotorcraft are to start on the summer of 2021.

The first Mi-171A3 offshore helicopter i…

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The U.S. Army recently awarded the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign an $8 million, four-year cooperative agreement to develop key technologies that may allow the Army’s unmanned air and ground vehicles to run on any type of fuel.

Researchers at the U.S. Arm…

It was a day of celebration when the U.S. Army announced the selection of Airbus’ (then American Eurocopter’s) helicopter as its new light utility aircraft of choice to replace the UH-1H Iroquois and OH-58 A/C Kiowa helicopters. On June 30, 2006, the Army chose the Lakota because it best met the mi…

HMS Queen Elizabeth has embarked the largest number of warplanes ever onto her deck as she prepares to take her place at the heart of a UK-led NATO Carrier Strike Group.

Two squadrons of F-35B stealth jets, the RAF’s 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) and the US Marines Corps VMFA-211 (The Wake Island…

Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 has deployed from the Gulf of Aden to Alaska and is coveted by would-be buyers led by the United Arab Emirates. But the simulated combat testing needed to tell how well it would fare against Russian, Chinese or Iranian air defenses may be delayed yet again.

The intens…

At the 28th MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce, Poland, the Polish Ministry of Defense down-selected four out of 12 multipurpose armored vehicles for the next stage of the Pegaz (Pegasus) competition.

The much-delayed Pegaz program initially called for deliveries of 280 veh…