By Robbin Laird At the heart of the Franco-German launched Future Combat System is the combat cloud. As Pierre Tran highlighted in his recent article on Thales: Thales welcomed the French and German launch of a technology demonstrator for a Future Combat Air System, with the electronics company winning a…
By Pierre Tran Paris. Dassault Aviation is backing its industrial partner Airbus in budget negotiations for a planned European medium-altitude, long-endurance drone, Eric Trappier, chairman and chief executive of the aircraft builder, said Feb. 27. “It is Airbus which leads the negotiations,” he told a news conference on 2019 financial results.…
By Pierre Tran Paris - Arquus, a builder of light and medium armored vehicles, expects to increase 2020 sales by 10 percent, down from a 38 percent rise in 2019, said chairman and chief executive Emmanuel Levacher. That “ballistic” trajectory of a forecast dip in sales offers an “opportunity to…
By defenceWeb The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will take delivery of its JF-17 Thunder fighter jets in November this year, and A-29 Super Tucano turboprops in 2022, according to the Chief of Air Staff. Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, speaking during the graduation of 2 079 new recruits on 15 February…
By Jimmy Bhatia New Delhi: After hard-nosed price negotiations spreading into better parts of two years, HAL has finally agreed to supply Indian Air Force (IAF) with 83 Tejas LCA Mk IA at a cost of Rs 39,000 crore ($5.6 billion approximately). Earlier, HAL had demanded a staggering Rs 56,…
By Robbin Laird The strategic shift from the land wars of the past two decades to preparing for the high-end fight is having a significant effect on the dynamics of change affecting the very nature of the C2 and ISR needed for operations in the contested battlespace. An ability to…
By Pierre Tran Paris NG reported a six percent rise in 2019 net attributable profit to €188 million ($204 million) from a year ago, on sales of €3.7 billion, up three percent. Operating profit rose six percent to €282 million, with an operating profit margin of 7.6 percent of sales,…
By Robbin Laird The US Navy over the next decade will reshape its carrier air wing (CVW) with the introduction of a number of new platforms. If one simply lists the initial operating capabilities of each of these new platforms, and looked at their introduction sequentially, the "air wing of…
