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France Awards $2 Bn Order for Three E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes
Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, approved on November 4, 2020 the acquisition of three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and command aircraft. Managed by the Directorate G

First EU Defense Review Admits Military Shortfalls
BRUSSELS --- The European Union acknowledged on Friday that it lacks the capabilities to meet its goal - pushed most strongly by its biggest members - to become a standalone military power able to hel

DGA Contract Kicks Off Design of Sensor Suite for NGWS / FCAS Project
Within the framework of the development project for the Next Generation Weapons System (NGWS / FCAS), on October 16 the Secretaries of State for Defense of Spain, Germany and France signed the Consoli

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France Awards $2 Bn Order for Three E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes
Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, approved on November 4, 2020 the acquisition of three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and command aircraft. Managed by the Directorate G...

First EU Defense Review Admits Military Shortfalls
BRUSSELS --- The European Union acknowledged on Friday that it lacks the capabilities to meet its goal - pushed most strongly by its biggest members - to become a standalone military power able to hel...

DGA Contract Kicks Off Design of Sensor Suite for NGWS / FCAS Project
Within the framework of the development project for the Next Generation Weapons System (NGWS / FCAS), on October 16 the Secretaries of State for Defense of Spain, Germany and France signed the Consoli...

France Orders 10 New OPVs and First 7 Albatros Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
The General Directorate of Armament (DGA) on October 23, 2020 awarded a framework agreement the Piriou, CMN and Socarenam shipyards for the study, development, construction and initial maintenance in ...

German MoD Details €2.7Bn Order for Sea Tiger Naval Helicopters
The German Navy will get new helicopters for their frigates: They will be called Sea Tiger and will be mainly used to fight surface ships and submarines. The Budget Committee of the Bundestag has now ...

Bundestag Panel Clears €46.8Bn 2021 Defense Budget, Torpedo and Ammo Contracts
For 175 million euros, the Bundeswehr is to get a better and safer IT information technology wide area network, ammunition for the Leopard 2 and modernized heavyweight torpedoes for its submarines. Th...

US Defense Contractors Not Much Affected by US Election: Fitch
CHICAGO/NEW YORK --- A modest slowdown in defense spending under the new administration, due to the potential for budget cuts to help offset stimulus spending post pandemic, would not materially affec...

Philippines Set to Buy India-Russia BrahMos Cruise Missile
NEW DELHI / MANILA --- India and Russia are looking to export to the Philippines their jointly developed BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, a move that may unnerve Beijing, given its border standoff w...

Israel to Probe Submarines Affair Involving Prime Minister
Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced Sunday that he would form a government committee to investigate the irregular purchase process of submarines and corvettes, an affair that has already resulted i...

Taurus Seeks Korean Partner to Develop New Missile
SEOUL --- German-Swedish defense company Taurus Systems GmbH hopes to develop a smaller, longer-range air-based cruise missile with South Korea for the country's envisioned KF-X fighters and other air...

China's Y-20 Transport Aircraft Flying with Uprated Engine
China's Y-20 strategic transport aircraft is finally getting its long-awaited domestically developed engines, which recently made their first public appearance, multiple media reports speculated recen...

Latest Flight III Version of DDG 51 Destroyer on Schedule: US Navy
WASHINGTON --– The U.S. Navy recently achieved several important milestones for the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer Flight III upgrade, representing significant progress toward delivering critica...

Russia Airlifts Demining Equipment for Nagorno-Karabakh
The An-124, Il-76 and Tu-154 aircraft of the Military Transport Aviation of the Aerospace Forces of Russia from the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow delivered specialists, equipment and hardware, as we...

Occar, EU Commission Sign Agreements to Develop Defense Industry
BRUSSELS --- European Commission and Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) signed Contribution Agreements for the management and implementation of two European Defence Industrial Devel...

EU Ministers Consider Initiatives for Joint Military Capabilities
BRUSSELS --- The first ever overview of the European defence landscape, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) report, identifies significant avenues for European defence cooperation with 55 ...

Elbit Demos Spike SR Missile in Estonia
TEL AVIV --- The EDF (Estonian Defense Forces) has completed a firing of SPIKE SR (Short Range) missiles in a demonstration that took place in September. EuroSpike's (a European Joint Venture betwe...

WFEL Wins Subcontract for British Army Boxer MICV Program
ARTEC consortium member, KMW, has concluded a further contractual agreement with WFEL for the production over ten years of Boxer Vehicle Drive Module fabricated hulls - together with a further contrac...

KBR Wins $65M to Operate US Bases in Djibouti, Kenya
Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc., Houston, Texas, was awarded a $64,827,880 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity modification for the exercise of Option Three for base operating support service...

Bharat Electronics, Terma Sign Agreement for Indian Coastal Surveillance Radar
NEW DELHI, India --- We are pleased to announce that Bharat Electronics Ltd has chosen Terma, once again, for Phase II of the Coastal Surveillance System being established by BEL for the Indian Coast ...

Cabinet OKs Partial Privatization of Israel Aerospace Industries
After more than two decades of intermittent discussion, the cabinet privatization committee on Thursday approved the partial privatization of Israel Aerospace Industries by listing an unspecified mino...

Elbit Reorganizes Certain Business Activities
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems announced today that it reorganizes certain business activities in order to strengthen synergies. The reorganization will begin during the coming months and will be com...

Kratos Acquires Unmanned Aerial System Engineering Leader
SAN DIEGO --- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has acquired 5-D Systems, Inc., a CMMI Level 3 Systems and Software Engineering company with facilities in the Austin, T...

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EU’s Borrell on Advancing European Defense Cooperation
Today, EU Defence Ministers discussed how to address tomorrow’s challenges and how the EU can become a stronger security partner. The Strategic Compass, the Permanent Structured Cooperation and the Co...