November 14, 2023 | International, Aerospace, C4ISR
State-owned Rosoboronexport had announced a new counter-drone weapon to be on display, but the equipment was nowhere to be seen.
May 25, 2021 | International, Aerospace
The service plans to award a contract worth up to $490 million to a single vendor that can team with other companies to provide various counter-drone products.
August 6, 2018 | International, Aerospace
One variant, in Army colors, has missile racks sticking out of what was originally the passenger cabin — a conversion that units could potentially install or remove as needed in the field. The other, with Marine Corps markings, is a sleeker thoroughbred gunship with internal weapons bays, stealth features, and folding wings to fit in shipboard hangars. By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. ARLINGTON: How new is Bell Helicopter's shiny showroom — excuse me, Advanced Vertical Lift Center — minutes from the Pentagon and the Capitol? Between the time I arrived this morning and the time I headed out, they installed two huge mockups of their high-speed V-280 Valor tilrotor. But these aren't land-based troop transports like the prototype Bell's already flying for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) demonstration program. They're heavily armed gunships. One, in Army colors, has missile racks sticking out of what was originally the passenger cabin — a conversion that units could potentially install or remove as needed in the field. The other, with Marine Corps markings, is a sleeker thoroughbred gunship with internal weapons bays, stealth features, and folding wings to fit in shipboard hangars. Bell showed off these mockups before, but there's almost no imagery available online, so when executives said I was free to take photos, I had my phone out at once. Equally interesting was what they said about another design they've still got under wraps: Bell's contender for the Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft(FARA), a scout light, small, and agile enough to avoid detection by flying down city streets. https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/bell-pushes-v-280-gunship-shipboard-variants-recon-in-works/
July 23, 2020 | International, Aerospace
Les députés Benjamin Griveaux et Jean-Louis Thiériot, membres de la commission de la défense de l'Assemblée nationale, ont publié un rapport sur «la place de l'industrie de défense dans la politique de relance». Pour les rapporteurs, «l'Etat arrive à une séquence historique où c'est à la Défense de prendre le relais des marchés civils et export». Ils plaident pour une relance «par les commandes militaires», estimant notamment qu'une « commande d'une vingtaine de Rafale» est aujourd'hui «indispensable». Un tel contrat dépasserait les deux milliards d'euros ; afin de venir en aide aux sous-traitants de Dassault Aviation, cette commande devrait être passée dans les prochains mois. L'Opinion du 23 juillet