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South Korea Probes Alleged Airbus Payment to Korean Air Exec
SEOUL --- South Korean prosecutors on Thursday launched a probe into allegations that Korean Air’s CEO and his sister are responsible for a former executive’s taking payments from Airbus in return for

Russia to Test-Fire Tsirkon Missile from Frigate Admiral Gorshkov
MOSCOW --- The Tsirkon hypersonic missile will be test-fired for the first time this year in spring from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, a source in the Russian defence industry said. For the first t

Official Announcement on Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft Awards
Program Executive Office, Aviation announces the Project Agreement holders for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR). The Army’s PEO Av

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South Korea Probes Alleged Airbus Payment to Korean Air Exec
SEOUL --- South Korean prosecutors on Thursday launched a probe into allegations that Korean Air’s CEO and his sister are responsible for a former executive’s taking payments from Airbus in return for...

Russia to Test-Fire Tsirkon Missile from Frigate Admiral Gorshkov
MOSCOW --- The Tsirkon hypersonic missile will be test-fired for the first time this year in spring from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, a source in the Russian defence industry said. For the first t...

Official Announcement on Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft Awards
Program Executive Office, Aviation announces the Project Agreement holders for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR). The Army’s PEO Av...

Lockheed Wins $601M for Trident II D5 SLBM
Lockheed Martin Space, Titusville, Florida, is awarded a $601,332,075 fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00005) to exercise options under a previousl...

Australian Army Short-Lists Four for Tactical UAV Replacement
The replacement of the Army’s Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) through project LAND 129 Phase 3 has progressed to the tendering process. Four companies have been selected through an...

Update on Rafale’s RBE2 Active Electronically Scanned Radar
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- Thales has produced the RBE2 airborne, X-band, multifunction / multimode radar for almost 30 years, with a prototype model delivered in 1991, and flight achieved for the first time ...

UK Withdraws Some Personnel from Iraq
Following a pause in the coalition training mission in Iraq, some service personnel will be redeploying back to the UK. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been a reduced requirement for tra...

Russian Giatsint-S Artillery Used As Precision Weapon for First Time
MOSCOW --- Crews of 2S5 Giatsint-S long-range artillery of Russia’s Eastern Military District have used self-propelled guns as high-precision weapon for the first time, the District's press service an...

Next-Gen Jammer Mid-Band Pod Completes Developmental Testing
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. --- The Navy’s Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) developmental pod recently completed a portion of developmental testing in the Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation ...

S. Korea, US Still Have Gaps in Defense Cost-Sharing Talks
South Korea and the United States still have gaps over the sharing of the cost for stationing the US Forces Korea, the foreign ministry said Friday, after they wrapped up three days of hard bargaining...

Two US Carrier Strike Groups Train in Arabian Sea
MANAMA, Bahrain --- USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) and USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) began dual carrier strike group and joint air wing operations with a B-52 Bomber from U.S. Air Forces Central Com...

Czechia Adopts SALIS Capability to Airlift Urgent Medical Equipment
LUXEMBOUG --- The Czech Republic will use Strategic Airlift International Solution (SALIS) to transfer urgent medical equipment from China and help tackling the coronavirus crisis in the country. I...

US Navy Exercises Options on BLQ-10 ESM System
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia; and Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Syracuse, New York, have been awarded an $8,759,811 cost-plus-incenti...

India Orders Negev Light Machine Guns from Israel
The Indian Armed Forces' long-standing requirement of a modern state-of-the-art Light Machine Gun (LMG) has finally fructified. The Acquisition Wing of Ministry of Defence has signed the capital acqui...

NATO Sec-Gen Releases Annual Report for 2019
As we look today at how we can face the huge challenges posed by COVID 19, the Annual Report for 2019 shows the great strides we took as an Alliance last year to adapt to an unpredictable world. Th...

USAF Launches New C-17 Software Application
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Scheduling training for C-17 Globemaster III pilots and crew is about to get easier with the launch of Puckboard, a data-powered software application to plan aircrew qualification...

EDA-Supported Defence R&T Project Co-Funded by EU Structural Funds
BRUSSELS --- Co-funding worth some 5 million euros from the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) has been allocated to an EDA-supported defence research project aimed at developing protecti...

Kongsberg Board OKs 2019 Financials, Additional Dividends on the Way
The Board of Kongsberg Gruppen ASA approved the financial statements for 2019 in the board meeting 19 March 2020. The financial statements were approved without changes from the preliminary annual acc...

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