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Boeing Completes 737 MAX Software Fix
CHICAGO --- Boeing has completed development of the updated software for the 737 MAX, along with associated simulator testing and the company’s engineering test flight. To date, Boeing has flown the 7

Open Up US Market, EU Says In Riposte to Pentagon Threat
BRUSSELS --- U.S. fears about losing European defense contracts are unfounded, Brussels told Washington on Thursday after the Pentagon demanded the European Union curtail a new military pact that it s

Norway Admits F-35 Bill May Prove Too Big for Defense Budget
Oslo's decision to update its air fleet with F-35 fighter aircraft has been billed the single largest defence procurement in Norwegian history, but has run into one problem after another. Norwegian

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Boeing Completes 737 MAX Software Fix
CHICAGO --- Boeing has completed development of the updated software for the 737 MAX, along with associated simulator testing and the company’s engineering test flight. To date, Boeing has flown the 7...

Open Up US Market, EU Says In Riposte to Pentagon Threat
BRUSSELS --- U.S. fears about losing European defense contracts are unfounded, Brussels told Washington on Thursday after the Pentagon demanded the European Union curtail a new military pact that it s...

Norway Admits F-35 Bill May Prove Too Big for Defense Budget
Oslo's decision to update its air fleet with F-35 fighter aircraft has been billed the single largest defence procurement in Norwegian history, but has run into one problem after another. Norwegian...

US Offers to Pay Countries to Ditch Russian, Chinese Arms
The U.S. State Department wants to expand a little-known effort that offers countries cash to buy American-made weapons if they give up Russian-made arms. The year-old initiative, called the Europe...

Turkey Says US Claims About S-400 Missiles Are “Invalid”
RIGA, Latvia / ANKARA --- Turkish officials have once again refuted the United States’ claims that the deployment of Russian S-400 air defense systems on the Turkish soils together with the U.S. F-35 ...

Swiss Cabinet Approves $6 Bn Land Forces Modernization
BERN --- Our land forces need to better adapt to ever-changing conflicts. They need equipment that allows for more mobile and modular engagement. This is the path adopted by the Federal Council in its...

Did Boeing’s Secret Formula Win the T-X Competition?
ST. LOUIS --- Ever since Boeing’s winning bid for the T-X trainer contract came in last September at least $10 billion less than the U.S. Air Force’s original estimate, blowing away two established co...

FS Bretagne Shoots Down Supersonic Target with Aster 15 Missile
On May 12, 2019, the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Bretagne successfully intercepted a supersonic target flying at over Mach 2 during an allied fire campaign using its radar-based Combat Management Sy...

Italy Won’t Allow Break-Up of Piaggio Aerospace: Deputy PM
MILAN --- Italy’s government will not allow a break-up of aircraft maker Piaggio Aerospace, which was placed under special administration last year, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday....

Norway’s Sunken Frigate: ‘Cheaper to Buy a New One’
Although raised and set afloat after four months underwater, the frigate Helge Ingstad, which sank following NATO drills in late 2018, is far from operational and still demands enormous investments. ...

Lockheed to Market Rafael’s SPICE Bomb Guidance Kits
TEL AVIV, Israel --- Lockheed Martin and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. of Israel, signed a teaming agreement to jointly develop, market, manufacture and support Rafael’s Smart, Precise Impact a...

Team Dynetics Wins $130M US Army High Energy Laser Contract
WASHINGTON -- Dynetics, along with its partners, has been awarded a $130 million contract to build and test the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command's (USASMDC/ARS...

Chinese Spying: The Limits of Imitation, Reverse Engineering and Cyber Espionage
The authors argue that an increase in the complexity of military technology has made the imitation and replication of state-of-the-art weapon systems harder—so much so as to offset the diffusing effec...

Follow-Up Order from Brazil for Rheinmetall's Fieldguard 3
Rheinmetall Air Defence, the Düsseldorf-based Rheinmetall Group's Swiss subsidiary, has won an order for a further Fieldguard 3 military measurement system from a major Brazilian defence contractor. ...

Russian Frigate Completes Test Firing in Norwegian Sea
The large anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, returning after completing long-range missions to the main base of the Northern Fleet, Severomorsk, performed a series of combat exercises in the northern pa...

HMS Duncan Shows Air Defence Power in Italian Exercise
Warship HMS Duncan was kept busy during an Italian-led exercise, carrying out anti-submarine and air defence training. The Type 45 destroyer spent two weeks off the coast of Italy, joining eight ot...

DoD Comptroller Updates Congress on DOD Financial Audit
The Defense Department's comptroller updated the House Armed Services Committee on the department's financial statement audit. David L. Norquist said the audit has become an integral tool in enabli...

Israeli AF Adapts to Information Revolution
The term "information revolution" may sound foreign at first, but when we go in-depth, we can see how it exists in every facet of our lives – from autonomic cars to robotic vacuum cleaners. Ever wonde...

Dutch Suspend Military Training Mission in Iraq
The Netherlands has suspended its military training mission to northern Iraq, citing an unidentified ‘risk to security’. A spokesman for the ministry of defence told website Nu.nl that the suspens...

Dutch Test Excalibur Artillery on Swedish Range
FMV supported the Dutch test shoots with the Excalibur munition at Älvdalen's firing range. When the Netherlands performed firing with the Excalibur artillery projectile at Älvdalen's firing range,...

Navsea: Why a More Agile Navy is Important
WEST BETHESDA, Md. --- In the flow of traditional project management, there is a chronological order for how the experimental process goes. From the problem statement comes requirements for the experi...

US Air Force Recovers B-52H Bomber from Boneyard
BARKSDALE AFB, La. --- In the cockpit of “Wise Guy,” a B-52H Stratofortress which had been baking in the Arizona sun at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group since 2008, is a note tha...

French Air Force Hosts This Year’s Tiger Meet in SW France
This year, it will bring together 60 fighter planes and 13 helicopters from over ten countries (including France, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Austria) under a common em...

Boeing Wins UK MoD Synthetic Air Combat Simulation Contract
Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced that British pilots will be able to undertake simultaneous, virtual exercises with US counterparts based across the Atlantic using new cutting-edge simulat...

Russia to Open Service Center for Mi-171Sh Helicopters in Peru
LIMA --- Russian Helicopters holding (part of Rostec State Corporation) will participate in the Seventh International Exhibition of Technology for Defense and Prevention of Natural Disasters SITDEF-20...

British Army Trials New Bridging Concept Produced in UK
Funding from the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has led to a micro SME, based in Devon, attracting their first military order from the Army Rapid Innovation and Experimentation Laboratory (AR...

Airbus to Look at Buying Bombardier Belfast Plant
Airbus is considering buying Bombardier’s Belfast wing production operation, after the Canadian firm said it was looking to offload the struggling plant. Guillaume Faury, who started as Airbus chie...

Lockheed Breaks Ground on New JASSM Production Plant
TROY, Ala. --- U.S. Air Force and local Alabama officials joined Lockheed Martin executives today to break ground on the company's new strike systems production facility in Troy. Local officials, U...

Leonardo Touts C-27J Spartan, M-346 Light Fighter in Peru
ROME --- Leonardo is attending the SITDEF exhibition (International Technology Hall for the Defence and prevention of Disasters) in Peru (Lima 16th-19thMay, stand 207, Inka Pavillion).The Company is o...

US Employed 49,500 Contractors in Central Command AOR
CRS Reviews US Airborne Attack Programs
European States and the Future of PeSCO
GAO: Pentagon Should Improve Special Ops Forces Management
IISS Imagines Defense of Europe if US Pulled Out
CBO Analyzes Cost of Replacing US Army Aircraft
Prospects for US Army's Vertical Lift Modernization

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