Bell 505 100% SAF in flight

Bell 505 Becomes World’s First Single Engine Helicopter to Fly Using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today the Bell 505 completed its first flight fueled solely by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), marking the first-ever single engine helicopter to fly with 100% SAF. Bell collaborated with Safran Helicopter Engines, Neste, GKN Aerospace and…

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HENSOLDT’s PrecISR – to be seen here on CAE-Aviation Beech 200 test aircraft - can be installed aboard helicopters, UAVs and fixed-wing mission aircraft with limited effort.  Photo: HENSOLDT AG/CAE Aviation

HENSOLDT to strengthen CAE Aviation surveillance fleet with high-performance radar

Sensor solutions specialist HENSOLDT will supply another multi-mission surveillance radar PrecISR™ to one of the biggest airborne surveillance providers, CAE Aviation, Luxembourg. CAE Aviation, which operates a large fleet of surveillance aircraft, has decided to renew its trust in HENSOLDT by awarding them…

Safran and International Golden Group form joint venture in optronics and navigation

Safran and International Golden Group form joint venture in optronics and navigation

UAE-based International Golden Group and Safran Electronics & Defense today announced the creation of the “Vision for Optronics & Navigation” joint venture in the defense and high-tech sector, with a focus on optronics and navigation.

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HAVELSAN’s UAVs, BAHA and POYRAZ, Become Search and Rescue Teams’ Assistants in Türkiye Quake

HAVELSAN’s UAVs, BAHA and POYRAZ, Become Search and Rescue Teams’ Assistants in Türkiye Quake

Amid the devastating earthquakes our nation has encountered, as HAVELSAN, we have been acting with the responsibility of mobilizing all of our sources strengthening search and rescue activities with our smart technologies, and standing with our people in this terrible natural disaster. Since the first day of…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles BAHA and POYRAZ carried out reconnaissance-surveillance missions, especially in villages and mountainous areas, and shared the images they received with the coordination center in the region. BAHA met the need for images with its sub-cloud flying ability when it becomes difficult to…

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Rheinmetall taking part in EU project for sustainable forward operating bases

Rheinmetall is participating in the INDY project, a part of the EU Green Deal. The project is supported by the European Defence Fund. INDY stands for Energy Independent and Efficient Deployable Military Camps. The aim is to present EU member states with options for efficient operation of energy systems in…

Nexter stands with Denmark in the transfer of CAESAR® to Ukraine

Nexter stands with Denmark in the transfer of CAESAR® to Ukraine

Further to the Danish Ministry of Defence’s announcement that it will donate the 19 CAESAR® ordered by Denmark to Ukraine, the number of CAESAR® gun systems in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be more than doubled, providing a significant increase in their indirect fire support capability.

Leonardo and Telespazio announce the winners of #T-TeC 2022, an international Space-related Open Innovation contest

Leonardo and Telespazio announce the winners of #T-TeC 2022, an international Space-related Open Innovation contest

The awards ceremony of #T-TeC 2022, the Open Innovation contest promoted by Leonardo and Telespazio, was held today in Brussels in the frame of the 15th European Space Conference. The contest was open to students and researchers from universities and departments around the world with the goal of promoting Space…

Leonardo: Guardia di Finanza’s first newly-configured AW169M delivered

Leonardo: Guardia di Finanza’s first newly-configured AW169M delivered

Leonardo and Guardia di Finanza (Italy’s Police Force with general capability in economic and financial matters as well as the only maritime Police Force in Italy) celebrated today the delivery of the operator’s first AW169M light-intermediate twin engine helicopter in a special configuration featuring skids.…

JUICE’s TVAC © Airbus 2022

Airbus finalises JUICE - ready for its mission to Jupiter

The Airbus-built JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission) spacecraft will shortly leave Toulouse, France, for Kourou, French Guiana, for lift-off on an Ariane 5 in April 2023. Shipment is expected in early February.

The spacecraft has been at Airbus in Toulouse since August 2021 for final assembly and…

JUICE solar panels © Airbus 2022

On its more than 2 billion-kilometre  long journey, the 6.2 ton JUICE spacecraft will collect data on the icy moons to try to understand whether there is any possibility that these moons could host microbial life. Carrying 10 state-of-the-art scientific instruments, including cameras, spectrometers, an ice-…

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Exail’s DriX Unmanned Surface Vehicle takes part in Digital Horizon 22 military exercise organized by US Navy in Bahrain

Exail’s DriX Unmanned Surface Vehicle takes part in Digital Horizon 22 military exercise organized by US Navy in Bahrain

Saint-Germain-en-Laye – 19/01/2023 – Exail, formerly iXblue, recently took part in the Digital Horizon Unmanned & Artificial Intelligence Exercise in Bahrain, organized by the US Navy. The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet held the three-week exercise in December to test new unmanned technologies, as

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