Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering’s 8×8 combat vehicle nearing service entry
Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, and its joint venture in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE), announced that the Ministry of...
SA’s unique multi-role aircraft ramps up production
Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, and its partners in AHRLAC Holdings have announced that its new state-of-the-art aerospace factory is...
Innovation is key to African maritime security – Paramount
Africa's maritime domain is vast, with far-ranging security challenges on an almost individual state basis. Arguing for a blanket solution to all maritime security...
Ensuring aerospace innovation meets tomorrow’s challenges
The world is becoming a perilously uncertain place.
Over recent decades, threats have become increasingly asymmetrical, both in their form and occurrence. For nations across...
2017 confirms defenceWeb as South Africa’s leading defence news source
defenceWeb remains the largest, most credible and widely read defence and security news website in Africa, with three-and-a-half thousand stories published in 2017.
These were...
The African battle space is not the Middle East
When Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, speculation as to what this meant for African security was rife. The uncertainty persists among policymakers and...
Aerospace innovation to meet future challenges
The world, according to Ivor Ichikowitz, executive chairman of the Paramount Group, is becoming a perilously uncertain place with threats becoming increasingly asymmetrical, in...
Integration and flight testing of a Satcom terminal on the Mwewe UAV
PAT agreed to assist Cobham SATCOM with type approval testing of its Aviator UAV200 Satcom terminal on the Mwewe Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV).
The Mwewe...
Paramount Group ramps up deliveries of armoured vehicles to Kazakhstan armed forces
ASTANA, 14 December 2017. Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, and its joint venture in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE) have...
Paramount Group to train aviation technicians at Polokwane International Airport
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately owned defence and aerospace company, has launched an internationally recognised aviation technician course to train the next generation of...
Paramount Group strengthens turnkey air force capability
Paramount Group, the African-based global aerospace and defence company, today announced the significant enhancement of its pilot training capability through its acquisition of four...
Airbus, SITA join forces to provide advanced cyber security services for air transport industry
Airbus and SITA have launched new Security Operations Center Services customised for the specific needs of the air transport industry. These new incident detection...
Naval industrial partnerships can bolster economic, regional security in West Africa
Paramount Group, Africa's largest defence and aerospace company, today called for stronger collaboration between West African governments and the private sector to create local,...
Paramount Group enters production of its MWARI ‘SMART’ reconnaissance, strike aircraft following surge in...
* Paramount Group's intelligent and precision strike MWARI aircraft to be showcased at IDEX 2017 in Abu Dhabi.* MWARI offers state-of-the-art smart reconnaissance technology...
Paramount Group to showcase its latest portfolio at IDEX 2017 in the context of...
* Old alliances are being tested and new ones created by political upheaval in the US, in Europe and from across the Far East.*...
Paramount envisages pan-African defence industry
Ivor Ichikowitz, founder and executive chairman for Paramount Group, is pushing for the creation of a pan-African defence industry, as the manufacture of aircraft,...
Paramount Group showcases highly advanced infantry combat vehicle capabilities at ADEX 2016
The Mbombe 6 represents the pinnacle of land system technologies and can be modified to serve as either a combat vehicle or an armoured...
Paramount Group unveils family of highly advanced Infantry Combat Vehicles at AAD 2016
Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, today unveiled its family of Mbombe Infantry Combat Vehicles (ICVs) at the AAD 2016 expo,...
Paramount Group showcases industry-leading terrorism response capabilities at AAD 2016
Paramount Advanced Technologies (PAT), a division of Paramount Group, revealed an innovative simulated joint Command Post at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) expo...
Paramount Group, The Armored Group announce strategic alliance to promote complete portfolio of armoured...
Paramount Group today announced a strategic alliance with The Armored Group (TAG) to promote a complete portfolio of armoured vehicles for military, civilian, commercial...
Paramount Group to celebrate SA’s leading role in the global defence industry at AAD...
Following a period of increased innovation and global growth, Paramount Group will exhibit at the African Aerospace and Defence Expo (AAD 2016), taking place...
Paramount Group unveils new generation armoured vehicle for the global defence market
Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, unveiled a new generation 8x8 (eight-wheeled) armoured vehicle in Astana at the weekend, during the...
Paramount Group expands innovative industrial partnerships throughout Middle East
An innovative industrial partnership between Paramount Group, the African-based global defence and aerospace company, and strategic partners, including the King Abdullah II Design Development...
‘Parabot’ in Jordan to celebrate special forces protecting our world
Parabot, the African super-hero robot, is towering over the Special Operations Forces Exhibition (Sofex 2016) to celebrate the critical role that Special Forces across...
South African defence company opens largest armoured vehicle factory in Central Asia
Paramount Group, the South African-based global defence and aerospace business, opened a new armoured vehicle factory in Kazakhstan with the capacity of more than...
Boeing and Paramount to collaborate on light multi-role aircraft
Boeing and the Paramount Group, the South African based global defence and aerospace business, have expanded their 2014 agreement to cooperate on an...
Chairman of Paramount Group calls for affordable defence solutions at global aerospace summit
The chairman of Paramount Group, Ivor Ichikowitz, was invited as a key speaker to address the annual gathering of global aerospace leaders in Abu...
Fourth industrial revolution: A force for stability or volatility in Africa?
The fourth industrial revolution has begun. Will vast amounts of data, emerging digital marketplaces and advanced robotics revolutionise our lives or instigate revolutions? The...
Paramount Group supports orphanage, homeless shelter for Mandela Day
Paramount Group celebrated Mandela Day today by supporting the Thusong Children's Orphanage, in Tembisa, and the MES Kempton City Homeless Shelter in Kempton Park,...
Ichikowitz Foundation supports efforts to save endangered Saiga antelope
Two of South Africa's leading veterinary experts returned from the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, to investigate the unexplained mass die-off of more than 130Â 000...
Paramount’s Anti-Poaching and K9 Academy scoops top global, South African awards for best PR...
The launch of Paramount Group's Anti-Poaching and K9 Academy has been voted the best communications campaign in Africa at the world's top public relations...
Paramount Group ramps up production capacity by acquiring industrial assets of DCD Protected Mobility
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately-owned defence and aerospace business, today announced the acquisition of certain manufacturing facilities, industrial assets and employees of DCD Protected...
European Data Relay System confirms services for Copernicus in co-operation with European Commission
Following the recent decision confirming the ESA-Airbus Defence and Space European Data Relay System partnership, agreement has been reached with the European Commission for...
Paramount Group announces multi-million dollar contract for production of world-leading combat vehicles in Jordan
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately-owned defence and aerospace business and Jordan's state-owned defence company, the King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) has...
Paramount prepares for production of AHRLAC
Paramount Group is preparing for the industrialisation of its AHRLAC (Advanced High-Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft), including the construction of a state-of-the-art factory and a...
Paramount Group to announce new deals, partnerships, technologies at IDEX 2015
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately-owned defence and aerospace business, is participating at IDEX 2015, the largest defence exhibition in the Middle East, where it...
Paramount signs MOU with Motor Sich JSC for modernisation of helicopters
Today, Paramount Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Motor Sich JSC of the Ukraine to collaborate in the production and modernisation of...
Paramount’s AHRLAC shortlisted for global industry award as it celebrates over 50 hours of...
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately-owned defence and aerospace company, has been nominated in the innovation category of US Aviation Week magazine's Laureate Award for...
Department of Military Veterans, Paramount Group announce multimillion-rand high-tech skills transfer programme
Paramount Group, Africa's largest non-government-owned defence and aerospace manufacturer, in partnership with the Department of Military Veterans, today announced a multimillion-rand hi-tech skills development...
#Parabot – Africa’s largest super-hero robot joins the rhino fight
What stands nearly 10 metres tall, weighs a tonne, has the body of a legendary armoured vehicle, and is on a mission to raise...
Paramount Group celebrates 20 years of growth, development with new acquisitions, diversified, advanced solutions
* Full acquisition of Veecraft creating a shipbuilding business with an order book in excess of R1 billion.* One-hundred percent acquisition of Aerosud's military...
Here’s how chairman of Africa’s largest private defence company sees the continent’s future
In Obama's view, the US-Africa Summit in Washington signalled an important shift in the US's relationship with Africa. He assured leaders that US policy...
Revolutionary aircraft showcasing Africa’s advanced aerospace capability takes to skies
The aircraft, a global first, addresses a key industry need by performing the combined tasks that previously required four separately configured planes. It integrates...
US-Africa Summit 2014: Africa on the agenda or too little too late?
It is ‘regime change', often caused by military force and executed in countries such as Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan, that has left chaos and...
Boeing, Paramount Group to collaborate on defence, security opportunities
An agreement, signed during the annual Farnborough Air Show, will allow Boeing and Paramount to apply their complementary strengths in providing aircraft and land...
Airbus A400M makes first visit to Mexico
The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter landed today for the first time in Mexico, where the aircraft will show its performance in a series...
Arabian Defence Industries (ADI) announces production of world-leading South African combat vehicles in Jordan
Paramount Group's newly announced joint venture with KADDB Investment Group (KIG), Arabian Defence Industries (ADI) is thrilled to announce that the Jordan Armed Forces...
Sky’s the limit for SA’s best air show
‘South Africa's Best Air Show' returns to Zwartkop in Pretoria on 10 May. Join 30 000 airheads, families and friends and experience more than...
‘Defence industrial partnerships between Middle East and Africa will drive new wave of industrialisation’...
Paramount Group, Africa's largest privately-owned defence and aerospace business, called for stronger defence industrial co-operation between the defence and aerospace industries of Africa and...
World’s smallest Tetra radio device, TH1n, to serve special units of police in Lower...
The Logistics Centre of the German state of Lower Saxony has commissioned Airbus Defence and Space to deliver digital Tetra radio devices and accessories...
