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Russia Lifts Veil on MiG-41 Fighter
The cutting-edge interceptor aircraft, which has been under development for several years, will be able to reach space and even potentially operate without a pilot, according to the CEO of the MiG cor

GD Unit Wins $882M for Large Vertical Sonar Arrays for Submarines
General Dynamics - Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $64,217,408 cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price contract for a large vertical array (LVA) fixture, LVA first ar

Taiwan’s Draft 2018 Defense Budget Is A Positive Half-Measure
Taiwan’s ruling cabinet announced on August 17 that it has approved a fiscal year 2018 budget proposal that favors the Ministry of National Defense over all other government departments. The FY18 b

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Russia Lifts Veil on MiG-41 Fighter
The cutting-edge interceptor aircraft, which has been under development for several years, will be able to reach space and even potentially operate without a pilot, according to the CEO of the MiG cor...

GD Unit Wins $882M for Large Vertical Sonar Arrays for Submarines
General Dynamics - Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $64,217,408 cost-plus-incentive-fee and firm-fixed-price contract for a large vertical array (LVA) fixture, LVA first ar...

Taiwan’s Draft 2018 Defense Budget Is A Positive Half-Measure
Taiwan’s ruling cabinet announced on August 17 that it has approved a fiscal year 2018 budget proposal that favors the Ministry of National Defense over all other government departments. The FY18 b...

Russia to Study New High-Speed Combat Helicopter Concept
The Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) and the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract on formation of the concept of a high-speed combat helicopter within the framew...

Russian Bombers Fly Near N. Korea In Rare Show of Force
MOSCOW --- Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown a rare mission around the Korean peninsula at the same time as the United States and South Korea conduct joint military exercises that h...

Leidos Wins $728M to Support Afghan Air Force
Leidos Innovation Corp., Gaithersburg, Maryland, was awarded a $727,689,796 firm-fixed-price contract to provide support for the Afghan Air Force (AAF) and Special Mission Wing (SMW) helicopter/fixed-...

Lockheed Wins $548M Order for Hellfire II Missiles
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $547,934,477 modification (P00050) to contract W31P4Q-15-C-0151 for a Hellfire II missile production requirement that consist...

Six Chinese Bombers Fly Near Japan’s Kii Peninsula
BEIJING --- The Joint Staff Office of Japanese Defense Ministry announced on Thursday that six Chinese H-6 bombers flew to waters off the Kii Peninsula, the largest peninsula on the island of Honshū i...

Pratt & Whitney Wins $150M to Support F119 Engines
United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut, has been awarded a $149,931,292 increase modification (P00197) to a previously awarded contract for F-119 engine sustainment. ...

Northrop Offers Global Hawk to Fix F-35 to F-22 Communications Gap
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman has a pitch to solve communications problems between the F-35 and F-22: Put a new radio on a Global Hawk drone and have it act like a translator between the two assets. ...

Airbus, IAR Extend Partnership on H215M Helicopter
BUCHAREST --- Airbus Helicopters and IAR, Romania’s leading aerospace company, have decided to extend their exclusive cooperation on the H215M multirole helicopter. Under this general agreement IAR wi...

MBDA Teams with Local Industry for Romania Missile Requirements
BUCHAREST --- During the visit of French President Macron in Romania on the 24th of August, and in the framework of the Strategic Agreement between Romania and France, the European leader for tactical...

UK Weighs Options for Skynet 5 Follow-On SatComms
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- Forecast International expects satellite deliveries of the Skynet follow-on to begin early in the next decade. Skynet 5 is a Private Finance Initiative, meaning that the British gov...

General Atomics Gray Eagle-ER UAV Flies 41.9 Hour Mission
SAN DIEGO --- On August 6th, MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (MQ-1C ER) aircraft completed a 41.9-hour endurance flight, exceeding the 40-hour flight test goal. The Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), des...

Russia Orders Two More Iskander-M Brigade Sets In $340M Deal
Russian Defence Ministry is to receive two brigade sets of the Iskander-M tactical missile complexes. This was stated by Yuri Borisov during signing agreements with representatives of the defence i...

Russian Navy Orders Small Missile Ships with Kalibr, Onyx Missiles
Russian Defence Ministry has signed additional agreement with the Pella shipyard and the Zeleny Dol shipbuilding company named after Maxim Gorky on receiving small-sized missile ships armed with Kalib...

US Navy Calls Off Search for Survivors of Aug 21 Collision
CHANGI NAVAL BASE, Singapore --- After more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the U.S. Navy suspended search and rescue efforts for missing USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) Sailors in an appro...

Proteus Underwater Vehicle Completes Unmanned Missions Testing
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. --- Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that Proteus, its dual-mode undersea vehicle, successfully completed autonomous contested battlespace missions during the 2017 Advan...

US Navy to Christen Littoral Combat Ship Charleston
The Navy will christen its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Charleston (LCS 18), during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony Saturday, August 26, in Mobile, Alabama. The future US...

RTD Demos Hybrid Drive Armored Vehicle
The ELECTER parallel hybrid drive demonstrator from Renault Trucks Defense (RTD), the subject of an "Upstream Study Programme" (PEA) assigned by the DGA in 2012, has undergone testing in the last thre...

US Navy Releases Details of Ship Collision Review
WASHINGTON --- In a memorandum dated Aug. 24, 2017, to Adm. Philip Davidson, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. William Moran, detailed Davidson's responsibilit...

HII Cuts First Steel for Third Ford-class Aircraft Carrier
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. --- Huntington Ingalls Industries today cut a 35-ton steel plate at its Newport News Shipbuilding division to kick off advance construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80...

Canadian CF-188 Hornets Relieve RAF Typhoons in Romania
Four CF-188 Hornet fighter aircraft from Canada have arrived in Romania to support NATO enhanced air policing operations. From September until December the aircraft – from the Royal Canadian Air Fo...

Russia Signs Contracts Worth $2.9Bn At Army Forum
MOSCOW --- Russia signed over 20 contracts of weapon purchases worth over 170 billion rubles (2.87 billion U.S. dollars) at an ongoing military-technical forum, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thurs...

Ingalls to Repair, Refurbish Damaged USS Fitzgerald
WASHINGTON --- The Navy intends to award a contract initiating the restoration of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) in Pascagoula, Mississippi, before the end of the fisca...

Hensoldt Touts Performance of Spexer 3-D Radar at Demos
TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany --- The SPEXER 2000 3D radar developed by Hensoldt proved its detection capabilities, in particular against asymmetric threats, during two customer demonstrations under real opera...

US Army Tests Advanced Modular, All-Weather Targeting System
FORT BRAGG, N.C. --- Forward observers, who are experts in directing artillery and mortar fire onto enemy targets, hit the mark in testing a new piece of targeting equipment here recently. "Black F...

Russia MoD Sums Up Results of Two Days of Army Forum
Chief of the Main Research and Development Directorate of the Russian Defence Ministry Alecander Mironov summed up results of two days of the Army 2017 International Military Technical Forum. Accor...

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