Safran’s Turbomeca Arrius 2B2 Plus engine was chosen by DRF Luftrettung H135 fleet to be used in three of the new Airbus Industries Helicopters H135. These Turbomeca Arris 2B2 plus engines will be used in HEMS missions or Helicopter Emergency Medical Service missions located in Germany. Read more >>

Defense Technology leader Northrop Grumman Corporation is shopping its new MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned rotorcraft around Asian countries, looking for potential buyers. Read more >>

In a move that has been a long time coming, the US Air Force will finally cease using Russian made rockets for their satellite launch missions.  The US Air Force conducts most if not all of its space launches through a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture known as the United Launch Alliance (ULA), and all ULA rockets are currently powered by Russian-made RD-180 engines.  Although the engines themselves function just fine, the Department of Defense is skeptical about relying upon Russia for anything defense related let alone for all space launches. Read more >>

The United States Army has made significant strides in a project that will debut designs for a new generation of rotor-craft. Read more >>

DefenseNews, a Tenga company, has released an article on February 8th, 2016 talking about Finmeccanica and how it has proposed to a solution to UAV drones that are available to the average consumer as airports and military bases are seeing UAV drones more and more as a threat. According to Steve Williams, capability manager for Finmeccanica's airborne and space systems division, there have been a couple of incidents in which mini drones posed a risk to both the national and the commercial security in the past few years. These drones are also known as small unmanned aerial vehicles. Read more >>