Rheinmetall has announced expanding its maintenance support to Australian Defence Force vehicles in the Northern Territory and Queensland in partnership with RGM Maintenance. RGM already has facilities in both areas. The initiative follows Rheinmetall Australia’s delivery of over 3,000 HX trucks and 3,000 vehicle modules under the ADF’s LAND 121 3B/5B program in February. OEM-Certified...
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Airbus Digitalization Taps Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
Airbus will use Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE virtual twins platform to support all new development and life cycle management programs for its civil and military aircraft, including helicopters, under an extended partnership agreement between the two companies. Dassault said the digital platform’s deployment will enable collaboration of over 20,000 Airbus employees and suppliers, either on-premise or...
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Dutch Marines Joining Allies in Oshkosh JLTV Deployment With 150 Vehicle Purchase
The Dutch Ministry of Defence has ordered 150 of Oshkosh Defense’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, or JLTV, for the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. The Wisconsin-based defense contractor said it will fill the order for the DXPVs, short for Dutch Expeditionary Patrol Vehicles, in partnership with its sister unit, Oshkosh Defense Europe. The DXPVs are designed...
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Raytheon to Manufacture Coyote C-UAS in Abu Dhabi
The Tawazun Council, the United Arab Emirates’ defense and security acquisitions authority, has agreed with RTX subsidiary Raytheon to produce the Raytheon Coyote with counter-unmanned aircraft system capability in the UAE. Al Romaithi, Tawazun Council defense and security industry affairs sector chief, and Fahad Al Mheiri, Raytheon Emirates managing director, were the signatories to the...
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Safe Pro Expands Patent Claim for AI-Based Drone Imaging for Mine Detection
Safe Pro Group has filed a patent claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization covering 47 jurisdictions for its Safe Pro Object Threat Detection technology platform. The company said Monday that the WIPO filing seeks international expansion on the first patent the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded to SPOTD. The Aventura, Florida-based drone imagery processing company...
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IBM Partners With ESA on Earth Observation Model TerraMind
IBM Research Europe has partnered with the European Space Agency to develop TerraMind, a new Earth observation model accessible on IBM’s open-source library Hugging Face. Through pretraining on TerraMesh geospatial data, the artificial intelligence-based model combines insights from nine classes of Earth observation data, providing an intuitive knowledge of the planet Earth, IBM said Tuesday....
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China Sends J-10C Fighter Jets in First Military Drill With Egypt
China has deployed J-10C fighter jets and Y-20 transport aircraft in its first-ever joint military exercise with Egypt. The two countries’ air forces are scheduled to hold the event, dubbed “Eagles of Civilization 2025,” from mid-April to early May over Egyptian airspace, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. In a separate report, the Egyptian news website Ahram...
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New Zealand Extends Military Training Support to Ukraine
The New Zealand Defence Force will extend up to December 2026 the deployment of about 100 of its personnel assigned to train Ukrainian soldiers in the United Kingdom and across Europe. The extension signifies New Zealand’s continuing commitment to support Ukraine’s defense “against Russia’s illegal and unprovoked invasion,” New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said...
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BAE Systems Sees Major Gains in Ammunition Business With New Tech, Factory
British multinational BAE Systems expects its 155 mm artillery shell production capacity to grow 16-fold using a new production method at an explosive filling facility at Glascoed, South Wales. The manufacturing plant will become operational in the summer. According to the company, it developed innovations in the propellant formula and manufacturing process for energetics and...
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US, South Korea Hold Joint Mine Warfare Exercise
The U.S. Navy’s Mine Countermeasures Squadron 7, or MCMRON 7, joined its South Korean counterpart in a 10-day mine detection and neutralization exercise that ended Wednesday. The Republic of Korea Navy deployed its Mine Squadron 52 in the collaborative naval defense effort called the Korea Spring Exercise held off the southeast Korean coast. The drills...