| Latest Feature Stories Airbus Takes €436M Charge for A400M But Wins New Contract
PARIS --- Airbus announced this morning that it had taken a new charge of €436 million for the A400M program in its 2018 accounts, bringing its total since the program began to over €8 billion. Th... Latest Press Releases Airbus to End A380 Production After Emirates Switches to A330, A350
TOULOUSE --- Following a review of its operations, and in light of developments in aircraft and engine technologies, Emirates is reducing its A380 orderbook from 162 to 123 aircraft. Emirates will tak... NATO Defense Ministers in Brussels to Discuss Alliance Deterrence
NATO Defence Ministers are meeting today (13 February 2019) to begin two days of talks on pressing security challenges, including Russia’s violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. ... Airbus 2018 Net Jumps 29% As Revenues Grow 8%
AMSTERDAM --- Airbus SE reported strong Full-Year (FY) 2018 consolidated financial results and delivered on its guidance for all key performance indicators. “Though 2018 had plenty of challenges fo... Australia Assigned More F-35 Component Repair Work
Australia has been chosen to provide Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul and Upgrade for significantly more componentry of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) in the Asia-Pacific Region. This is yet another boos... South Korea Details New F-35 Component Repair Assignments
A consortium of five Korean defense companies has been selected as the regional component maintenance servicer of U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighters, Korea’s main arms procurement agency said Wednesday.... Rolls-Royce Welcomes Emirates Agreement on A380
Rolls-Royce has secured an order for Trent 7000 engines to power 40 Airbus A330neo aircraft from Emirates. The order includes Rolls-Royce’s flagship TotalCare long term service support. Emirates has a... Austria to Join NATO Regional Special Ops Command
On Wednesday (13 February 2019), the Defence Ministers from Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to establish a Regional Special Operations Component Command (R-SOCC... Lockheed Wins $14M for Initial F-35 Repair Materials
Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded $14,498,758 for modification P00009 to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive firm contract (N0001918C1048) to provide for initial lay-in of re... CBO Says Pentagon’s FYDP Would Bump Budget Up by 11%
CBO estimates that if the Department of Defense implemented the plans described in its 2019 Future Years Defense Program, its base-budget costs (in 2019 dollars) would climb from the $617 billion requ... US Delivers Laser-Guided Aircraft Rockets to Lebanon
The United States is pleased to announce the delivery today of the shipment of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guided rockets, valued at more than $16 million, destined for the... US Army Modernizing Electronic Warfare Capabilities
FORT BLISS, Texas --- Iron Soldiers with 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division teamed up with the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division to conduct training using new electronic warfare (E... EASA Completes First Certification Flights on MC-21-300 Aircraft
Flight test experts of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) completed the first flight session of the MC-21-300 certification program. During the certification tests, the behavior of MC... UK to Deploy Apache, Wildcat Helicopters to Estonia
Wildcat and Apache helicopters will be deployed to Estonia this year, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced at a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in Brussels. The Army aircraft will provide... US Navy to Commission Littoral Combat Ship Tulsa
The Navy will commission its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Tulsa (LCS 16), during a 10 a.m. PST ceremony Saturday, Feb. 16, at Pier 30/32 in San Francisco. U.S. S... US Approves $238M Sale of MTU Powerpacks for Israel’s Namer APC
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Israel of Namer Armored Personnel Carrier (APC-MT883) Power Packs, Less Transmission (NPPLT) ... US Army Shouldn’t Put Off Choice of Black Hawk Replacement
In the three decades since the Cold War ended, the U.S. Army has done a good job of sustaining the readiness of its helicopter fleet and installing new equipment when it was urgently needed. What the ... Pentagon Spells Out Rationale for Artificial Intelligence
The Pentagon made public for the first time on Feb. 12 the outlines of its master plan for speeding the injection of artificial intelligence into military equipment, including some advanced technologi... New PLA Regulations Aim to Build Up Combat Abilities
The People's Liberation Army has published its first regulation governing military training, a move observers said will effectively boost the PLA's combat capabilities. The regulation was signed by... US Navy Unit Provides Diving Training to Montenegrin Navy
MONTENEGRO --- U.S. Navy Divers from the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) in Panama City, Florida recently traveled to Montenegro to provide two weeks of capacity building training to Montenegrin ... Updated US Army Manual Shies Away from Domestic Ops
The use of military forces to perform domestic functions — such as constructing barriers along the US-Mexico border — could pose fundamental legal, policy and administrative challenges. “Military f... Lost Command Link Caused Predator Crash in South Asia
LANGLEY AFB, Va. --- An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft lost connection to operating flight crew systems and subsequently crashed in the Central Command’s area of responsibility August 21, 20... Pentagon: No US Troop Buildup in Poland 'at this Point'
The US ambassador claimed Washington had pledged to increase its deployment of 4,000 troops in Poland. But shortly afterward, the Pentagon said that "speculation on troop increases or agreements" was ... Finnish Defence Forces to Buy Small Arms Training Simulators
Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö authorised on 13th of February 2019 the Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command to purchase Small Arms Indoor Training Simulators (SAITS) from Saab AB. The procurem... Raytheon Wins $88M to Upgrade F-18 and EA-18G Sensors
WALTHAM, Mass. --- Raytheon Company won the following contract as announced by the Department of Defense on February 11, 2019. The Raytheon Co., El Segundo, California, is awarded an $88,443,303 co... Hensoldt TRS-4D Radar for New Batch of K130 Corvettes
ULM, Germany --- Hensoldt will equip the second batch of German Navy's K130 corvettes with the TRS-4D Rotator naval radar and MSSR 2000 IFF identification system. The company was awarded a correspondi... Australia to Review Arms Export Regulations
The Coalition Government has released the Report of the Independent Review of the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 and its Initial Government Response outlining support for all nine recommendations of ... India to Close or Privatize 15 Defence-Owned Workshops
The Government had constituted an Expert Committee on enhancing combat capability and re-balancing defence expenditure under chairmanship of Lt. General DB Shekatkar (Retd). On the basis of recom... India, Sweden Sign MoU on Defense Cooperation, Data Protection
India’s Minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman visited Sweden on 13 February for meetings with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and Minister for Defence Peter Hultqvist. The purpose of the visit was to si... Patria 2018 Sales Up 2% But Profit Grows 8%
Patria Group's sales and profitability for the financial year 2018 increased from the previous year. The Group’s net sales for the financial period totaled EUR 476.1 million (EUR 467.7 million in 2017... Kongsberg 2018 Sales Stable As Ebitda Increases 9%
Full Year 2018 -- New orders: MNOK 16,574 in 2018 compared to MNOK 13,430 in 2017, an increase of MNOK 3,144 -- Operating revenues: MNOK 14,381 in 2018, down 0.8% from 2017 -- EBITDA: MNOK 1,394 in... Boeing-Safran APU Joint Venture Named Initium Aerospace
CHICAGO and PARIS --- Boeing and Safran today announce the name of their 50-50 joint-venture to design, build and service Auxiliary Power Units (APUs): Initium Aerospace. From its Latin roots, init... ST Engg, DSO Form JV for Satellite Analytics, Space Techs
SINGAPORE --- Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today announced that its electronics arm has signed an agreement with DSO National Laboratories (DSO) to set up a joint venture co... Israel Marks 20 Years of Its Large UAV Squadron
It operates two different platforms in parallel, constantly evolves technologically and is considered the RPAV (Remotely Piloted Aerial Vehicle) Division's largest squadron. This week, the "First Zik"... Lockheed Announces Expansion, Job Growth in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. --- Today Lockheed Martin announced the opening of its $50 million, 255,000 square foot Research & Development II facility in Orlando, Fla. Since 2017, Lockheed Martin has created mor... Patria Focus on Armored Vehicles, ISR at IDEX Show
Patria attends IDEX 2019 event in February 17-21, in Abu Dhabi, UAE featuring its latest technology at Patria’s stand 10 - B10/C09. Patria will showcase several products: -- Patria AMV product fami... Naval Group Exhibits at IDEX 2019 and NAVDEX 2019
From 17th to 21th February 2019, Naval Group participates to IDEX 2019 and NAVDEX 2019 in Abu Dhabi. Naval Group will showcase the state-of-art innovations created for modern navies, demonstrating ... | 