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Leonardo Awarded $297 Million Contract For German Eurofighter’s E-SCAN Radar
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Month: January 2022
Air Platform
Army Wants To Accelerate FTUAS Drone Development
The Army is asking the industry if it can accelerate delivery of a new scout drone, FTUAS, to replace the ageing RQ-7 shadow after a successful year of field tests of four competing prototypes, culminating in a rainy-day “rodeo” at Fort […]
Air Platform
Sukhoi Su-35, A Disaster Fighter Jets for Russia
The Su-35 takes that title by a long shot. It’s marketed as ‘world-beating’ – something it doesn’t come close to. Despite being marketed as 4++ gen, Su-35 has the least capable avionics suite among its […]
Air Platform
Indian Navy’s Deck-based MiG-29K Keeps Crashing On Land And In Sea
Between November 2019 and November 2020, the Indian Navy lost three of its MiG-29K fighter jets to accidents. On Nov. 26, an Indian MiG-29K crashed in the Arabian Sea after taking off from the country’s […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
China’s Type 071 Amphibious Dock Landing Craft Joins Naval Exercises First Time
China’s eighth Type 071 amphibious landing ship recently made its first publicly known maritime exercise appearance, and it has gained operational capabilities in troops delivery, air defense, anti-ship and land attack after entering service with […]
Europe
Families of U.S. Embassy Workers in Ukraine Told to Start Evacuating Soon
The US State Department has instructed the families of diplomats and non-essential staff at the American embassy in Ukraine to begin leaving the country in the coming days amid concerns of a possible Russian attack, […]
Air Platform
U.S. Transfers Ex-Afghan Helicopters To Ukraine
The United States will transfer five Russian-made Mil Mi-17 transport helicopters, originally belonging to the Afghan military, to Ukraine. The helicopters will be transferred along with other defensive weapons, including anti-aircraft systems shipped from Estonia, Latvia and […]
Americas
U.S. Navy Unveils Plans for the DDG(X) Next-Gen Destroyer
According to Rear Admiral Paul Schlise, U.S. Navy, Director, Naval Surface Warfare Division (N96) at SNA 2022, DDG 51s will have been in production for over 40 years with basically the same hull that the […]
C4iSR
Exposed! Sukhoi Su-57’s X-band N036 Byelka And N036L L Band Radars Are Not What You Think?
Su-57’s “distributed radar” must radiate electromagnetic waves outwards to work, equivalent to a person walking at night with flashlights all over his body, making it easier to be spotted. Restricted by backward microelectronics technology, Russian […]
Infantry Weapons
Why Did Russia’s S-300 Fail in Syria?
On Friday, May 1 2021, an alleged Syrian military source criticized the S-300 air defense systems supplied by Russia as incapable of stopping Israeli airstrikes and as “backwards,” reported Middle East Monitor, citing Avia.pro, a […]