The US Army Futur Vertical Lift program, one of the components of the BIG-6 super-program, will undoubtedly profoundly change the technological characteristics of helicopters in the decades to…
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Sikorsky deposits Leonardo in the field of naval helicopters in South Korea
The DAPA, the South Korean defense equipment acquisition and development authority, has just announced that it has accepted the offer from the American Sikorsky for 12 MH-60R naval helicopters to equip its KDX-III destroyers ...
Read the articleItaly to double fighter pilot training capacity in 2022
Decidedly, Italian defense news has been extraordinarily dense in recent months. After announcing the increase of the army budget by 10% in 2021, and establishing very operational ambitions ...
Read the articleTeam Tempest unveils certain technological advances of the future British fighter
Like the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy, the Tempest next-generation fighter aircraft program is on the way ...
Read the articleEgypt confirms the acquisition of 2 FREMM frigates from Italy
If the majority of countries in the Middle Eastern theater have increased their defense investments in recent years with a view to modernizing their armed forces, Egypt, for its part, is committed ...
Read the articleThe European drone takes off but asks a lot of questions
After having been accused of all evils, the MALE Eurodrone Medium Altitude Long Endurance drone program, which brings together Germany, Spain, France and Italy, seems to be seeing the end ...
Read the articleDassault Aviation and Safran lead defense companies with the strongest growth in 2019
Like every year, the American Defense news site Defensenews.com published its ranking of the 100 most important defense companies in the world. The 2020 ranking (based on 2019 figures) offers relatively ...
Read the articleThe Tempest program is more British than ever, but is it a weakness?
On July 20, the date which was initially to mark the opening of the Farnborough Airshow, 7 companies from the British aeronautical and defense industrial and technological base announced that they were joining the…
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