Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries displayed a model of the single-engined, twin-boomed Hamaseh UAV at the MAKS air show on 18 July, offering the first glimpse of Iran’s most capable UAV outside the country’s domestic industry events, says Mehrooz Hassanzadeh, export manager for the Hamaseh program.

Cyberbit on Monday announced the opening of a new office in Singapore. Elbit's subsidiary has identified Singapore as a strategic hub in the Asia Pacific region and is dedicated to being a part of the local cybersecurity ecosystem to protect Singapore and its assets from cyberattacks. The new office will enable Cyberbit to support its fast-growing customer base in Singapore and will accelerate Cyberbit’s expansion in the area, focusing on government and financial sectors. The Singapore office is Cyberbit’s third global office.

The tension between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the Revolutionary Guards that was evident during the presidential election campaign has intensified in recent weeks and evolved into a confrontation that is unprecedented in its openly severe nature. The current confrontation surrounds two main issues: Iran's missile strike against Islamic State targets in Syria, and President Rouhani’s criticism of the Revolutionary Guards' involvement in the economy.

The Government of the United Arab Emirates is acquiring 60 Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) missiles with canisters and one 100 Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical (GEM-T) missiles. The estimated cost of the deal is $2 billion.

An Elbit Systems of America Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT) border security system passed US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) systems acceptance testing. This IFT system, located in the Douglas, Arizona Area of Responsibility (AOR), marks the company’s second successful deployment of the system, with the first occurring in the Nogales, Arizona AOR.

The concept of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) has become central to the global cyber and information security world in recent years. For example, in June 2017, Gartner Inc. included EDR as one of the top ten information security capabilities in 2017 and estimated that, by 2020, 80% of large organizations and 25% of mid-sized organizations would invest in these capabilities.

TAT Technologies, an Israeli-based provider of services and products to aerospace and ground defense industries, was selected by Thales UK, a division of the Thales Group, to design, develop, supply and maintain thermal management cooling systems for Thales Radar Systems, which will be installed on Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) Helicopters. The program is for the delivery of cooling systems in the next five years, with a potential growth for additional systems in the future.