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Italians Test UAVs in Bid for Leadership Role

Leading Italian exhibitors at the Dubai show are demonstrating the company’s increasing capability in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles.

November 13, 2011

Raytheon Special Mission Aircraft Skills Ideal For MENA Region

Raytheon has come to Dubai to press the case for its special-mission aircraft expertise in the Middle East region.

November 13, 2011

UAE Apaches To Get Their Talons

Raytheon and Emirates Advanced Instruments (EAI) have completed environmental and flight tests of the Talon laser-guided rocket.

November 13, 2011

Advanced avionics helping Pakistan to break militants

According to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) it has flown more than 5,500 strike sorties over the country’s troubled tribal regions since May 2008.

November 13, 2011

THAAD on Target for UAE

Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system successfully undertook a sophisticated “two versus two” trial-firing last month.

November 13, 2011

V-22’s Dubai Show Debut Says: “Sales Pitch!”

The Bell-Boeing industry team and its main customer, the U.S. Marine Corps, have brought the tiltrotor to Dubai for the first time ever.

November 13, 2011

Lockheed Martin Extends Apache Helicopter's Capabilities

Lockheed Martin is continuing to expand the capabilities of the Boeing AH-64D Block III helicopter with sensor upgrades.

November 13, 2011

Adcom Unveils Innovative UAV at Dubai Air Show

Arguably the most impressive new design on display at Dubai is Adcom Systems’ latest unmanned air vehicle, the United 40.

November 13, 2011

Russians Enhance Fighter Training With 3-D Glasses

Russia’s RAC MiG Corp is displaying a new simulator system at the Dubai Air Show this week.

November 13, 2011

Tip-jet UAV Unveiled by Unmanned Systems

Swiss company Unmanned Systems is showing a model of its Orca rotary-wing unmanned air vehicle for the first time at the Dubai Air Show.

November 13, 2011

Huge Defense Deals To Dominate Dubai Air Show

Huge Defense Deals To Dominate Dubai Air Show

November 12, 2011

Training Underlines Afghan Air Force Rebirth

Training is just getting under way of the first military fixed-wing pilots to be taught to fly in Afghanistan since the early 1990s.

November 12, 2011

King Air Spies Like an Eagle

Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (HBC) has brought a special-missions-equipped King Air 350ER to the Dubai Air Show.

November 12, 2011

Aerostats Rise Through the Ranks in Surveillance Service

Aerostats are carving a substantial niche in the airborne surveillance business.

November 12, 2011

Sagem's Smart Weapons, Threat-Detection Business Thriving

Sagem's defense and security businesses are thriving, especially in smart weapons and threat detection at airports.

November 12, 2011

Boeing Touts 'Evolution' of Its Upgraded Fighters

Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) has stepped up its campaign to sell more F-15 and F-18 fighters.

November 12, 2011

Fighter Jet Competitions Still Up in the Air at Dubai 2011

Defense contractors vie for Middle Eastern fghter aircraft deals at the 2011 Dubai Air Show.

November 12, 2011

New Boeing 'Silent Eagle' F-15 Variant Could Rekindle F-15 Production

Production of the F-15 is currently due to end next year, after the last of 60 F-15K models for Korea and 24 F-15SG models for Singapore are completed.

November 12, 2011

UAE Team Paints Sky with Its National Colors

Al Fursan, the United Arab Emirates Air Force’s flight display team, is making its debut here this week.

November 12, 2011

F-16 To Spearhead Reborn Iraqi Air Force

The U.S. Pentagon announced that the first payment had been made concerning the supply of Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters to Iraq

November 11, 2011