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China Launches Largest-Yet Missile Destroyer
China's first home-grown, 10,000-ton class missile destroyer has been launched in Shanghai on Wednesday morning, marking a step forward for China's development in missile destroyers. According to t

Russia Says Demand for Its Warships Skyrockets After Syria
MOSCOW --- International demand for Russian warships has been picking up since the start of Russia’s military operation in Syria, President Putin’s adviser on military-technical cooperation with forei

US House Overwhelmingly Backs NATO Mutual Defense
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to reaffirm the NATO alliance's guarantee that all members defend each other, weeks after President Donald Trump ra

HMS Queen Elizabeth Is A £6bn Blunder That Should Be Scuttled
What a glorious photo opportunity: the new pride and joy of British sea power, HMS Queen Elizabeth, largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy, this week sailed from the Firth of Forth for sea tria...

China Launches Largest-Yet Missile Destroyer
China's first home-grown, 10,000-ton class missile destroyer has been launched in Shanghai on Wednesday morning, marking a step forward for China's development in missile destroyers. According to t...

Russia Says Demand for Its Warships Skyrockets After Syria
MOSCOW --- International demand for Russian warships has been picking up since the start of Russia’s military operation in Syria, President Putin’s adviser on military-technical cooperation with forei...

US House Overwhelmingly Backs NATO Mutual Defense
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to reaffirm the NATO alliance's guarantee that all members defend each other, weeks after President Donald Trump ra...

Russian Buzzing in Baltic Airspace Can Cause Deadly Mistakes: NATO
The Baltic nations and Poland just got some long-awaited NATO boots on the ground, inaugurating new standing battalions last week amid multinational exercises along the Russian border. In the skies ab...

Lacking Real Ones, Royal Navy Uses Fake F-35 for Training
New "faux fighters" have arrived at a Naval base to help train crew on Britain's £3bn aircraft carrier. It comes after the nations new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth was put into the sea for th...

US SOCOM Awards $475M Contract for UAV Services Worldwide
Arcturus UAV, Rohnert Park, California, is being awarded one of three indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for a maximum of $475,000,000 for Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS...

Rheinmetall Wins €375M Order for Bundeswehr Future Soldier Systems
Rheinmetall has won a major order from the German Bundeswehr with a gross value of €370 million (net value: €310 million). The Düsseldorf-based tech group is to supply enough state-of-the-art "Future ...

Saab Wins $120M Swiss Order for NLAW
Defence and security company Saab has received an order from the Swiss Federal Office for Defence Procurement, armasuisse, for deliveries of the Next generation Light Anti-Tank Weapon system (NLAW) to...

HHI to Upgrade DDG 125 to Flight III Baseline, but Cost Is Secret
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive-firm target modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-2307) for incorporation of the F...

Australia Awards Boeing A$70M Contract for C-17 Sustainment
Twelve new jobs will be created in Queensland after the Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP announced today that a $70 million contract had been signed with Boeing Defence Austr...

Grumman Wins $34M to Add Flight Management System to E-2D
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Military Aircraft Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is being awarded $34,500,117 for delivery order N00019-17-F-1604 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0...

Elbit’s Seagull Unmanned Boat Demos Capabilities in Belgian MCM Trials
Seagull, Elbit Systems’ groundbreaking Multi-Mission USV, participated in the bi-national MCM trials for unmanned maritime systems that were organized by the Directorate General of Material Resources ...

Russian SSBN Fires Bulava Ballistic Missile in Test
The Northern Fleet strategic missile submarine Yuri Dolgorukiy (the major ship of the project 955 Borei) has performed a successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava from the Bare...

Sikorsky Delivers Second S-92 to South Korea Coast Guard
COATESVILLE, Pa. --- The South Korea Coast Guard has accepted delivery of its second S-92 helicopter for search and rescue following a ceremony today. Sikorsky is a Lockheed Martin company. The Sou...

GAO Calls for Wider Prototyping In Defense Programs
The Department of Defense (DOD) has used prototyping on its major defense acquisition programs (MDAP) primarily to reduce technical risk, investigate integration challenges, validate designs, mature t...

The Australian Navy’s MATV Arrives In Sydney
Completing her maiden voyage, the Damen Multi-role Aviation Training Vessel (MATV) MV Sycamore arrived in Sydney harbour early on Monday morning. The 94-metre long vessel is now less than a month away...

US Sends Fresh Troops to Afghanistan as Policy Debate Continues
The Army is deploying about 1,500 soldiers to Afghanistan this week, but U.S. officials say the troop movement is not part of any increase in forces in the war zone. Troops of the 82nd Airborne Div...

US Army Tests New Comms Procedures During Saber Guardian Ex
MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania --- Ahead of the official start of exercise Saber Guardian 17, the 44th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade, has established a forward Theater Netwo...

CSIS Looks At US Military Spending and the Cost of Wars
One of the striking aspects of American military power is how little serious attention is spent on examining the key elements of its total cost by war and mission, and the linkage between the use of r...

China’s Defense Technology University Launches Tenth Nanosat
CHANGSHA, China --- The National University of Defense Technology Satellite (NUDT Sat), independently developed by the College of Aerospace Science and Engineering of NUDT, was successfully put into t...

US Air Force Looks at New Parachute for ACES II Ejection Seat
EDWARDS AFB, Calif. --- Members of the 418th Flight Test Squadron are testing a new parachute canopy for the Advanced Concept Ejection Seat II. Testers are collecting data on the GR7000 parachute, whi...

CRS Reports on Congressional Review Process for Arms Sales
This report reviews the process and procedures that currently apply to congressional consideration of foreign arms sales proposed by the President. This includes consideration of proposals to sell maj...

Aviation Industry Makes Good Showing at Paris 2017
The 2017 International Paris Air Show produced a fairly impressive number of sales announcements, though the pace was down a bit from recent Paris shows. Orders and other commitments for commercial a...

Australia Arming the Air Fight in Afghanistan
Asan Armament Advisor deployed on Operation Highroad, Squadron Leader Nathan Gilmore is helping the Afghan Air Force (AAF) bring air power to the war in Afghanistan. Squadron Leader Gilmore is one ...

RAN Boosts Fleet’s Communications Capabilities
The Royal Australian Navy Fleet’s Information and Communication Technology systems are being improved as a result of successful trials onboard HMAS Choules as part of modernising the Fleet Information...

Russia Develops "Arctic" Gas Mask for Army Units
The technologies used in creating the new PMK-4 gas mask, which was adopted at the beginning of this year, will be used in the interests of the Arctic Grouping of Troops. "The technical solutions i...

CAE, GE and Rockwell Join Leonardo for Canadian AW101 Upgrade
ROME --- Leonardo Helicopters and IMP Aerospace & Defence (IMP) are pleased to announce the addition of three key Canadian industrial partners that have joined Team Cormorant, to support the moderniza...

Boeing, Georgia Tech Unveil Advanced Development Research Center
ATLANTA --- Boeing and Georgia Institute of Technology have announced the opening of a new advanced development research center that will tackle some of the toughest technical challenges in manufactur...

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