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China Touts Transport Capabilities of Z-20 Helicopter

China Touts Transport Capabilities of Z-20 Helicopter

China’s domestically developed Z-20 helicopter can transport a wide variety of vehicles including self-propelled mortars, howitzers, multiple rocket launchers and air defense missile platforms as well as land drones, giving aerial assault troops more tactical options and advantages, experts said on …
US to Resume Small, Persistent Presence in Somalia

US to Resume Small, Persistent Presence in Somalia

For 16 months now, American military personnel in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility have provided advise-and-assist support to forces in Somalia on an ad hoc basis — traveling into the country when needed and then leaving afterward. U.S. forces are helping Somali forces in the fight aga…
Airbus Selects Elbit DIRCM for European A-330 MRTT Operator

Airbus Selects Elbit DIRCM for European A-330 MRTT Operator

Elbit Systems was selected by Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus) to provide J-MUSIC Direct Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) including the Company’s Infra-Red-based Passive Airborne Warning Systems (PAWS IR), for Airbus A330-200 MRTT aircraft of additional European Air Force.

The Company’s DIRCM sy…

US Navy LCS Fires Hellfire in First Land Attack Mission

US Navy LCS Fires Hellfire in First Land Attack Mission

PACIFIC OCEAN –– The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class successfully launched sea-based missiles at a land-based target for the first time during a proof-of-concept exercise, May 12.

Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8) fired three AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire …

Rafael Unveils Aerospike Stand-Off Precision-Guided Missile

Rafael Unveils Aerospike Stand-Off Precision-Guided Missile

As part of the 2022 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems unveils Aerospike, a new advanced air-to-surface Stand-Off Precision Guided Missile (SOPGM) for fixed-wing airborne platforms.

Aerospike is a state-of-the-art, next generation EO/IR SOPGM s…


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