3 mars 2021 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité
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8 juillet 2021 | International, Aérospatial
Lutte anti-drone : l'armée française teste l’HELMA-P de CILAS
La ministre des Armées, Florence Parly, a assisté mercredi sur le site de la DGA Essai de missile, à Biscarrosse, à une démonstration de destruction en vol d'un mini-drone au moyen d'un laser. Le système HELMA-P, développé par la pépite CILAS, filiale d'ArianeGroup, est composé d'un radar pour détecter les drones jusqu'à 3 kilomètres, d'un système de pointage pour suivre la cible et d'un laser pour le neutraliser. Il peut « soit brûler le drone soit l'éblouir avec un tir de précision ». D'une portée d'un kilomètre, le laser est d'une puissance de 2 kW et détruit sa cible en moins d'une dizaine de secondes. Le système devrait être opérationnel en 2024. « A moyen terme, pour renforcer notre défense anti-drones, nous travaillons sur le développement de lasers de puissance, et c'est ce que vous nous avez montré aujourd'hui », a souligné la ministre. Parmi les armées occidentales, seuls les Américains et les Israéliens ont développé des capacités similaires. En Allemagne ou au Royaume-Uni, des recherches se poursuivent aussi.
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18 janvier 2024 | International, Terrestre
Pakistan’s Air Force says it has a hypersonic-capable missile
The service said the capability is meant to help create a “potent force and to rebalance the power dynamics in the region.”
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1 octobre 2019 | International, Aérospatial
Boeing nets $2.6B for next 15 KC-46 Pegasus tankers
ByEd Adamczyk Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing Co. a $2.6 billion contract to build 15 KC-46 tanker aircraft, as well as spares and support documents. The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, calls for exercise of a contract option to build the additional aircraft, as well as supply two spare engines, five wing refueling pod kits, spare parts and support equipment. Work on the contract will be performed in Seattle, Wash., and is expected to be completed by March 2023. The Air Force plans to purchase 179 such aircraft, known as the Pegasus, by 2027, and Japan's air defense force has purchased four. The plane is a military aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft with origins in the Boeing 767 passenger plane, capable of midflight refueling of fighter planes and other aircraft. Designed to replace the Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, the Air Force acquired its first KC-46 in January 2019. The plane's development has a troubled history. Boeing received a $55.5 million contract in August to redesign the plane's boom telescope actuator, which controls the device that swings out from beneath the plane to refuel other planes. The tankers were grounded in March for one week after the Air Force said it found loose tools and other foreign object debris inside the completed airplanes. The issues came just weeks after the company delivered the first two aircraft to the Air Force, and Boeing called the problem "a big deal" in an internal memo in February. These and other issues caused the plane's development program, and delivery of the first 18 planes, to be three years behind schedule. Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H., became the first guard base to receive a KC-46 plane in August. https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2019/09/30/Boeing-nets-26B-for-next-15-KC-46-Pegasus-tankers/9411569856689