RADA's MHR Takes Part in Successful Testing of Lockheed Martin's High Energy Laser

- RADA Electronic Industries Ltd. today announced that its Multi-mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR), which was purchased by Lockheed Martin in 2015 and is used since then in the development and testing of the ATHENA High-Energy Laser, took part in recent tests which proved that the system can deliver decisive lethality against unmanned aerial vehicle threats.

The MHR is used by the system to perform aerial surveillance, detect the aerial threats and cue the ATHENA optics to the aerial targets.

IAI and Hankuk Carbon Enter Joint Company Agreement

Israel Aerospace Industries and Hankuk Carbon from Korea signed this morning an agreement for establishing a joint venture company in the Republic of Korea. The signing ceremony was held during the International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (ADEX) 2017 in Seoul. The new joint company, which was named Korea Aviation Technologies (KAT), will focus on development and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with vertical takeoff .and landing (VTOL) capability that will target the military and civilian Korean market

GoFly Launches Competition to Bring Personal Flying Devices to the Masses

A new competition to encourage innovators to create a safe and easy-to-use personal flying device launched today at one of the aerospace industry’s premiere engineering technology conferences. Gwen Lighter, CEO of The GoFly Prize opened registration for the competition at the SAE 2017 AeroTech Congress & Exhibition.

First KC-46 to KC-46 Refueling

.A Boeing-U.S. Air Force test team recently refueled a KC-46A tanker from another KC-46A tanker for the first time

During the four-hour flight, the two aircraft successfully refueled each other and achieved the maximum fuel offload rate of 1,200 gallons per minute. The program’s first and second tankers transferred a total of 38,100 pounds of fuel .over the course of the flight. Both aircraft took off and landed at Boeing Field, south of Seattle

"Last Isis fighters in Raqqa broker deal to leave The city"

The Islamic State fighters that remain in the city of Al Raqqa in Syria have brokered a deal that would allow them to leave the city, according to reports from Syrian news agencies.

Trump: I Will Not Certify Iran’s Compliance With The Nuclear Agreement

President Donald Trump spoke against the Iran Nuclear Deal that was reached in 2015 and said that he will not certify it. He also said that he will ask Congress to look for ways to improve the deal and to also include Iran's missile .program in it

He added that he will ask Congress to apply additional sanctions on Iran if it will not uphold the "spirit of the deal" – i.e. continue to support terrorist organizations and more.

Boeing To Purchase Aurora Flight Sciences

.Boeing is planning to buy Aurora Flight Sciences in order to advance its ability to develop autonomous, electric-powered and long-flight-duration aircraft for its commercial and military businesses

.“The aerospace industry is going to be changing” and the acquisition positions Boeing strategically “for whatever that future may be,” Boeing Chief Technology Officer Greg Hyslop said on a conference call with reporters

SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches third set of Iridium-NEXT satellites

Ten more satellites for Iridium’s upgraded voice and data communications fleet rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into a nearly 400-mile-high orbit from California’s Central Coast Monday

A few minutes after liftoff, the booster’s first stage made a pinpoint landing on an offshore platform in the Pacific Ocean, adding to SpaceX’s string of successful rocket recoveries for refurbishment and reuse

The new prospects of the Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC) - in the phase in which it is governed by Xi Jinping and by Prime Minister Li Kekiang - is changing rapidly.

Inspired By The IAF: the Iraqi Operation Moked

Operation Moked, executed by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) as the opening move of the Six-Day War of 1967, inspired the planners of the Iraqi Air Force when they prepared their opening move for the war against Iran, on September 22, 1980.