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Kratos unveils XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aircraft at MSPO 2021
U.S.-based drone-maker Kratos Defense & Security Solutions debuted its XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aircraft on the international market on Tuesday at the 29th International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO 2021 in Poland. The XQ-58A is a low-cost tactical Unmanned Aircraft System...
29th MSPO unveils Abrams tank with Trophy APS for the first time
U.S. Army and General Dynamics Land Systems will support the 29th International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO 2021 in Poland with an Abrams tank equipped with the Trophy Active Protection System for the first time in history. On 07...
Lockheed Martin unveils prototype of its promising supersonic plane
U.S. arms maker Lockheed Martin Corp has released a photo of the first prototype of its supersonic X-plane, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST), during ​the beginning of the final assembly process. The company says the aircraft is...
Northrop Grumman ramps up production of new G/ATOR radars
Defense giant Northrop Grumman Corp. has ramped up production of its newest AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) multi-mission radar systems, according to a company news release. As noted by the company, Northrop...
Russian heavy artillery systems found abandoned near Ukrainian border
Bloggers found an abandoned and unguarded heavy artillery systems near the railway station of the city of Pochep in Russia's Bryansk region. In footage shot by one of the bloggers, at least ten 2S19 MSTA-S self-propelled howitzers, 3...
Turkish F-16 fighters shadows Russian Su-24 combat jets
The Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Defense has reported that its two F-16 fighter jets scrambled to intercept Russian Su-24 Fencer attack jets that were flying over the Baltic Sea. According to a press release from Defense...
U.S. Army’s future armored combat vehicle concept render revealed
American Rheinmetall Vehicles (ARV), part of the German weapons maker Rheinmetall, has revealed for the first time an artist’s impression of a future armored combat vehicle that it is developing as part of U.S. Army’s Optionally-Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV)...
Kazakhstan orders two A400M aircraft from Airbus
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, has ordered Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft to outfit its Air Force fleet. According to a press release issued Wednesday by European aerospace group Airbus, the Republic of Kazakhstan has placed an order...