| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases US Lawmakers Reach Deal on $738 Bn Defence Bill After Months of Talks
WASHINGTON --- U.S. lawmakers announced an agreement on Monday on a $738-billion bill setting policy for the Department of Defense, including new measures for competing with Russia and China, family l... Trump Pressuring Japan to Choose Lockheed Over BAE for Future Fighter
WASHINGTON / TOKYO --- The Trump administration is pressuring Japan to choose a US defence company to develop jointly a replacement for its F-2 fighter jets as Tokyo considers a British alternative to... Royal Navy Commissions Its Second Aircraft Carrier, HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales has been commissioned into the Fleet today as the largest warship ever built for the nation. HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, as the ship’s Lady Sponsor, alongside HRH The Prince of... Norway Classifies Auditor-General’s Report on F-35 Procurement
Norway’s State Auditor General has issued criticism of the government in a report to Parliament about the new F-35 fighter jets, but the report is classified and therefore being handled as top secret.... Pentagon Orders Training Pause for All 5,000 Saudi Troops in US
The Pentagon has paused its training in the U.S. with Saudi nationals until officials conduct a thorough review. The directive follows a deadly shooting that killed three sailors and injured eight oth... Pentagon Offers Defense Industry Partnership to South Korea
The assistant secretary of defense for acquisition spoke today on the deepening industrial partnership between the United States and South Korea at a Center for Strategic and International Studies con... US Returns Military Bases to Korea as Congress Bans Drawdown
The United States on Wednesday returned to South Korea four of its military bases on the peninsula in a decision to end a yearslong delay caused by differences on decontamination procedures and to all... Congress Allocates $300M in Military Aid to Ukraine
The U.S. Congress has reached an agreement on a defense bill covering funding for 2020 that will allocate military assistance to Ukraine. This week, following months of dialogue between members of ... Precision Strike Missile Successful in First Flight Test: Lockheed
DALLAS --- Lockheed Martin successfully tested its next-generation long-range missile designed for the U.S. Army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. All... AVIC Acquisition Growth Slowing As Program Delays Continue
AVIC is the Airbus, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin of China. The firm consolidates all of China’s aviation activities under its aegis in one form or another. The goal behind its formation is to transf... Pentagon to Add Cybersecurity Requirements to Defense Contracts
The Defense Department expects that by June 2020, industry will see cybersecurity requirements included as part of new requests for information, which typically serve as one of the first steps in the ... Leidos Wins $6.5Bn to Manage DoD Information Network
Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, was awarded a competitive single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a ceiling of $6,520,000,000 that includes a mix of fixed price and cost con... NDAA Contains Several Provisions Affecting F-35 Program
Defense authorizers in the House and Senate are directing increased oversight of the F-35 Block 4 and Continuous Capability Development and Delivery (C2D2) program. The oversight requires the secre... Japan Reverses Course On F-35, Will Continue Assembly At Home
TOKYO --- Japan intends to continue assembling F-35 stealth fighters domestically, reversing plans to import the finished aircraft from the U.S., Nikkei has learned. Since Tokyo adopted the F-35A f... Airbus Delivers First H145M Helicopter to German SAR Unit
DONAUWÖRTH, Germany --- For almost 50 years, the light multi-purpose Bell UH-1D helicopter has been the reliable aircraft of the Bundeswehr’s search and rescue units. Now, its successor is already in ... First Leguan Bridge-Layers Delivered to Dutch Army
MUNICH --- Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) transferred the first two Leguan bridge laying systems to the Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) during a celebratory handover ceremony. The Netherlan... Congo Airways Orders Two Embraer E175 Jets
KINSHASA, DRC --- Embraer and Congo Airways have signed a firm order for two E175 aircraft, with purchase rights for a further two. The deal has a total value of USD 194.4 million at current list pric... Bell Boeing Delivers First Upgraded MV-22 Osprey
PHILADELPHIA --- Boeing and Bell Textron Inc. have delivered the first modified MV-22 Osprey to the United States Marine Corps for improved readiness and reliability of the tiltrotor fleet. The Mar... PESCO Military Mobility Procedures Tested in Lithuania
In the beginning in last week a trainset from Germany loaded with containers of combat stocks and military equipment – infantry fighting vehicles and all-terrain vehicles – arrived at Kaunas Railway S... BAE to Develop New Cyber Tools for DARPA
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new cyber tools designed to help prevent vulnerabilities in electronic files that can l... Black Sea: French and Romanian Navies Train Together
From 4 to 7 December 2019, the high-sea patrol Commander Birot made a stop in Constanta, in the south-east of Romania. Deployed in the Black Sea as part of a presence mission, Commander Birot condu... Royal air Force Completes NATO Air Policing in Iceland
Four Typhoon jet fighters have left Iceland as the Royal Air Force completed its first NATO Air Policing mission in the country. This has been the first time since World War II that an RAF fighter ... DoD Must Report on Nuclear Programs of US, Russia, China
In a challenge to Pentagon secrecy, Congress has told the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence to prepare an unclassified report on the nuclear weapons programs of the United... OCCAR, EDA Directors Discuss Bilateral Roadmap
BRUSSELS --- OCCAR Director Matteo Bisceglia today visited EDA to discuss with Chief Executive Jorge Domecq bilateral cooperation and programmes of relevance to both organisations. EDA-OCCAR coop... B-1B Bombers to Train for Fast Deployment Exercise
DYESS AFB, Texas --- From Dec. 10-12, 2019, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, will conduct an off-base “Bomber Agile Combat Employment” (BACE) exercise (formerly Bomber Task Force Experiment #2) at Naval A... Laos Army to Train in Russia’s Eastern Military District
Servicemen of the tank unit of the Eastern MD motorized rifle formation, stationed in Zabaykalsky Krai, received military equipment from representatives of technical services of the Lao People's Armed... 5th Gulf Defense and Aerospace Exhibition Opens in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY --- The 5th Gulf Defense and Aerospace (GDA) exhibition kicked off on Tuesday at the Kuwait International Fairground in Hawalli Governorate with the participation of more than 200 armament... | 