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Rafael’s systems on exhibit include I-Derby Missiles, RecceLite Reconnaissance Pods, Litening Advanced Targeting Pods, the SPICE Family of Air-to-Surface Missiles, the SPIKE Missile Family, and the BNET Tactical Communications system.
The debutante tactical airlifter can carry 26 tons of cargo at a speed of 470kts with missions that include Air-to-Air (in-flight) Refuelling, airborne operations and troop & cargo transportation, and has been designed to operate in austere environments.
Leading U.S. defence companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GE Aerospace, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc, Pratt & Whitney, and TW Metals, LLC will be exhibiting at the show.
The organisers expect around 500,000 visitors to the show being held over five days from February 13. The show will be open to public visitors on February 16th and 17th.
In the first edition of a new weekly video series, StratPost editor Saurabh Joshi examines whether India could acquire its first-ever U.S.-built fighter aircraft, with the navy considering the F/A-18 Super Hornet for its next carrier fighter.
The Shangri-La Dialogue 2022 comes on the heels of an eventful visit by India’s defence minister to Vietnam, speaking far more eloquently about India’s intentions in the region than a speech at conference could manage.
The official inauguration of DefExpo 2022, scheduled for March 10, had been moved to March 11 because of the scheduled counting of votes on that day in state elections widely considered to be politically significant.
This is the final aircraft to be delivered of an order for four aircraft placed by the Ministry of Defence in 2016, in addition to the initial eight aircraft contracted.
Exercise Milan 22 will be held over nine days in two phases, ‘with the harbour phase scheduled from 25 to 28 February and Sea Phase from 01 to 04 March’.
Five Tejas LCA fighters will fly to the United Kingdom, along with IAF C-17 aircraft to ‘provide the necessary transport support for induction and de-induction’.
The naval version of the Iron Dome defence system was tested from the Israeli corvette INS Sa’ar 6 Magen for a number of scenarios like rockets, cruise missiles and drones.
With GPS-denied environments becoming increasingly common, Sweden’s Saab has put together methods and technologies for combat aircraft to conduct missions in the absence of GPS.
A quiet, hybrid process is underway to buy a reduced number of new fighters for the Indian Navy’s aircraft carriers. But remarkably, some of the fighters being considered can’t operate from aircraft carriers.