Boeing and Israeli company Assembrix on Monday signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that will enable Boeing to use Assembrix software to manage and protect intellectual property shared with vendors during design and manufacturing.

“This agreement expands Boeing’s ties to Israeli industry while helping companies like Assembrix expand their business,” said David Ivry, President of Boeing Israel. “Boeing seeks suppliers globally who meet stringent quality, schedule, cost and intellectual capital, and Assembrix does all of that.”

Cryptocurrencies were the talk of 2017. Everyone from bank chairs to soccer moms, from investors to entrepreneurs, from hi-tech professionals to politicians were talking about it nonstop. The number of people worldwide who entered the field and started investing in crypto also skyrocketed. Unlike many other articles, I am not going to talk about whether it is wise to invest in crypto from a financial point of view. Nor am I going to foresee whether crypto will change the world or if it is just another bubble.

The Croatian Ministry of Agriculture is in talks with Aeronautics over the possible purchase of unmanned aerial vehicles for €5 million, according to a report by poslovni.hr.

Under the deal, Aeronautics would deliver six UAVs with a range of 120 km and loitering time of six hours. The UAVs will be used primarily for fisheries monitoring missions.

Elbit Systems of Australia has closed out the successful delivery phase of the Land 125 Phase 3C contract supplying XACTth65 thermal weapon sights to the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The Maintenance phase of Land 125 continues until mid-2020.

Since delivery commenced in September 2016, nearly 4,800 XACTth65 thermal sights have been supplied to the Australian Army with early indications suggesting good reliability of the systems delivered.

The Jordanian Company Jadara exhibited for the first time in public its J-Terminator anti-tank guided missile at SOFEX 2018.

“We started to work on the J-Terminator in 2017, and we are now in the very final stage of development,” Eng. Khaled Jafar, the company’s vice chairman, told the EDR Magazine. “Following tests which are currently underway, we expect to be ready for production by year-end,” he added.

Yemeni Joint Forces backed by the Arab Coalition launched on May 11, 2018, a battle to liberate Hodeida and regain control of its strategic port from the Houthis. The operation was launched after Yemeni forces secured areas in the west and southwest of Taiz and cutting supply lines to Houthis that have suffered major blows in ever-shrinking pockets of land.

Russian Sukhoi Su-30SM ‘Flanker-H’ combat aircraft have been deployed to the Khmeimim Airbase in Syria, Jane’s reported on Thursday. This is the first overseas mission for the fighter.

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is preparing to test a ‘downscaled’ variant of the Trophy hostile fire detection (HFD)/hard kill active protection system (APS) in the last quarter of this year.

Lockheed Martin received an $828 million contract from the US Army for the production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets and associated equipment.

The contract calls for the production of GMLRS Alternative Warhead (AW) rockets, GMLRS Unitary rockets, Reduced-Range Practice Rockets (RRPRs) and integrated logistics support for the US Army as well as GMLRS rounds for a number of international customers.

The events of the last week alone – President Trump's speech regarding the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA, the Iranian rockets launched at the Golan Heights and the extensive strikes Israel staged throughout Syria against Iranian objectives in response – have unveiled only a small portion of the broad regional picture: an unprecedented arms race.