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General Atomics Tests PT6E Engine on MQ-9B Unmanned Aircraft

General Atomics Tests PT6E Engine on MQ-9B Unmanned Aircraft

SAN DIEGO — On July 29, 2022, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) tested a PT6 E-Series model turboprop engine from Pratt & Whitney Canada on GA-ASI’s MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). Multiple full-power engine tests were performed at GA-ASI’s Desert Horizon flight operations…
Elbit Wins $240M Contracts to Upgrade Tanks for Foreign Customer

Elbit Wins $240M Contracts to Upgrade Tanks for Foreign Customer

HAIFA, Israel — Elbit Systems Ltd announced today that it was awarded two contracts, in an aggregate amount valued at $240 million, to upgrade Main Battle Tanks (MBT) for an international customer. A $60 million contract will be delivered over a period of two years and a $180 million contract will…
German Army Introduces ASUL Counter-Drone Defense System

German Army Introduces ASUL Counter-Drone Defense System

KOBLENZ, Germany — At the Koblenz-based Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed Forces (BAAINBw), the employees of the office were presented with the new “defense system against unmanned aerial vehicles” – ASUL for short.

Just under two years after the …

Russian ‘Ufa’ Submarine Resumes Factory Sea Trials

Russian ‘Ufa’ Submarine Resumes Factory Sea Trials

JSC “Admiralty Shipyards” (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has started the second stage of factory sea trials of a large diesel-electric submarine of Project 636 “Ufa”.

The first stage was held in the ranges of the Baltic Fleet from June 25 to July 5 this year. The program included c…

Defense Minister Hands Over New Equipment to Indian Army

Defense Minister Hands Over New Equipment to Indian Army

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh handed over indigenously-developed equipment and systems to the Indian Army in New Delhi on August 16, 2022. These include Future Infantry Soldier as a System (F-INSAS), new generation anti-personnel mine ‘Nipun’, rugged and automatic communication system with enhanc…
Colorado Guard First to Receive Modernized UH-72B Helicopter

Colorado Guard First to Receive Modernized UH-72B Helicopter

BUCKLEY, Colo. — The Colorado National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility received Aug. 4 the first two of 18 UH-72B Lakota helicopters purchased by the Department of Defense exclusively for the U.S. Army National Guard.

Nine states will receive two B models based on their previous UH-72A uti…


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