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Chinese Fleet Sails Into English Channel
BEIJING --- The Royal Navy scrambled a warship to shadow a Chinese flotilla as it steamed through the English Channel on route to meet Russian vessels for manoeuvres in the Baltic Sea. The trio of

Korea Aerospace Hammered Amid Widening Corruption Scandal
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) shares are falling like a plane crash amid the erupting scandal at the defense manufacturer. The company, which once held the spotlight for its technological potent

TRS, Lockheed to Jointly Develop Ballistic Missile Defenses
ThalesRaytheonSystems, in presence of the representatives of the two shareholders Thales and Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin have signed a MoU to develop territorial ballistic missile defence capabiliti

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Chinese Fleet Sails Into English Channel
BEIJING --- The Royal Navy scrambled a warship to shadow a Chinese flotilla as it steamed through the English Channel on route to meet Russian vessels for manoeuvres in the Baltic Sea. The trio of ...

Korea Aerospace Hammered Amid Widening Corruption Scandal
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) shares are falling like a plane crash amid the erupting scandal at the defense manufacturer. The company, which once held the spotlight for its technological potent...

TRS, Lockheed to Jointly Develop Ballistic Missile Defenses
ThalesRaytheonSystems, in presence of the representatives of the two shareholders Thales and Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin have signed a MoU to develop territorial ballistic missile defence capabiliti...

UK MoD Refutes F-35 Criticism, Says “It’s on Time, on Budget”
The Times, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mail and The Scotsman report on the costs of the F-35 Programme. An MOD spokesperson said: “The UK F-35 Programme is on time, on budget, offers the best ca...

F-35 Profits Boost Lockheed H1 Results
Lockheed Martin Corp., the Pentagon's No. 1 weapons supplier, on Tuesday reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and said it expects increased defense spending under U.S. President Donald Trump...

Cost of US Weapons Grew $99 Billion In Six Months
The Department of Defense (DoD) has released details on major defense acquisition program cost, schedule, and performance changes since the December 2015 reporting period. This information is based o...

US Imposes New Iran Sanctions One Day After Certifying Nuclear Deal
The United States is imposing new sanctions against 18 individuals and entities over their support for Iran's ballistic missile program and other military-related activities. The sanctions come one...

China Warns It Will Continue Naval Presence In Indian Ocean
“China should send more submarines to the Indian Ocean to make concerned countries get used to their presence in that region,” said Hu Bo, researcher with Peking University Ocean Strategy Research Cen...

Ukraine to Produce Oplot Tanks, More AFVs for Own Forces
The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the allocation of 300+ million UAH for the purchase of the newest battle tanks “Oplot” for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was stated by the Head ...

India Wants to Launch HTT-40 Production in Early 2019
The maiden flight of 2nd Prototype (PT-2) of Basic Trainer Aircraft (HTT-40) has been successfully completed on 19th May 2017 without any glitch. The aircraft flew for one hour carrying out important...

US Army Developing Microsatellite, More Powerful Lasers
WASHINGTON --- It's been a "dynamic year" for Army space and missile defense, with a multi-domain task force being formed, a new nanosatellite set to launch soon and more powerful laser weapons in the...

US Navy Fires First Tomahawk Missiles from New Sub Tubes
TUCSON, Ariz. --- For the first time, the U.S. Navy test fired two Raytheon-built Tomahawk cruise missiles from new submarine payload tubes on the Virginia-class USS North Dakota (SSN-784). The te...

Italian Eurofighters on Quick Reaction Alert in Bulgaria
Eurofighter Typhoons from the Italian Air Force will take over QRA duties in Bulgaria at Graf Ignatievo Airbase, close to the town of Plovdiv. During their 3 months deployment, starting from July,...

Slovakia First Customer to Deploy the Carl-Gustaf M4 System
Defence and security company Saab has delivered Carl-Gustaf M4 multi-role weapons to Slovakia. Delivery took place in mid July 2017. The Slovak Armed Forces are currently equipped with several unit...

Gender Integration Vital for Women in the Military, Southcom Chief Says
WASHINGTON --- Gender integration is vital for the success of women in the military, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said July 13 at the closing ceremony of the second Women in Military and Sec...

BAE, Darpa Working to Improve Submarine Detection
The company is working with DARPA to enable submarines to detect other submerged vessels at greater distances, while minimizing the risk of counter-detection. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Pro...

CAE Wins Defence Contracts Worth Over C$175 Million
MONTREAL, Canada --- CAE today announced that it has been awarded defence contracts on a range of platforms valued at more than C$175 million to provide simulation products, training services and in-s...

US Army Looks At Robotic Aviation Refueling System
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. --- Could a robotic, unmanned refueling system limit rotary-wing aircraft time on the ground and remove Soldiers from isolated fueling stations? A Limited Initial Capabilitie...

More Fennek Vehicles for German Fire-Support Teams
With the signature of the contract last week in The Hague, Netherlands, a new milestone in the FENNEK armored reconnaissance vehicle bilateral project has been reached. In the coming years, KMW will r...

UK Again Extends Training of Ukrainian Armed Forces
The UK is expanding its training of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with new military courses covering threats like countering attacks from snipers, armoured vehicles and mortars. The Defence Secretary ...

Royal Navy, Royal Marines Train Alongside Partner Naval Forces
UK maritime forces have trained alongside partner nations’ navies during deployment on board a French warship. Around 60 Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel exercised with their counterparts fro...

HMS Albion Sails Through Trials After £90M Revamp
Four weeks of initial trials are successfully over for assault ship HMS Albion - her first time in open waters for six years. After a £90m revamp in her home base which took more than two years and...

Ingalls Wins Additional $147M for CVN80 Refit
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) Inc., Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $148,728,722 undefinitized fixed-price-incentive-firm target modificat...

Booz Allen Wins $190M Consulting Contracts with USAF, US Army
-- Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia, has been awarded a $140,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract for Air Force business area process reengineering, performa...

Cuban Defense Spending Seen Growing from 2019
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- Defense spending in Cuba is declining. After reaching a high of $2.9 billion in 2012, defense spending declined to $2.7 billion in 2015, an annualized rate of 1.8 percent. During th...

Leidos to Integrate, Test and Demonstrate ARL-E for U.S. Army
RESTON, Va. --- Leidos was awarded a task order from the U.S. Army to integrate, test, and demonstrate the three complete Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) systems under the ARL-E program o...

Third Australian F-35A on Production Line
Air Force’s third Australian F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (A35-003) is progressing along the production line in the United States (US). The program’s milestone coincided with a visit by ...

ST Aerospace Wins New Contracts Worth S$650m in 2Q2017
SINGAPORE --– Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today announced that its aerospace arm, Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd (ST Aerospace) secured new contracts worth about S$65...

Pentagon Funds US-Korea Research on Disaster Relief Robots
ARLINGTON, VA --- The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that it will award approximately $3.5 million to six U.S. university teams for research into robotics for disaster relief. These aw...

Rheinmetall Buys 49% Stake In Supashock
Rheinmetall has today announced a further strengthening of its partnership with Supashock through the agreement to acquire forty nine percent of the Australian based company. The Rheinmetall Defence –...

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