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Sweden to Boost Defense Spending
The government has agreed with the Moderates and the Center Party to further strengthening the Swedish Armed Forces and to ensure the overall capability of the Swedish Total Defence. In addition to pr

GAO Warns of F-35 Upgrade Cost, Data Processing Overload
The Department of Defense's (DOD) F-35 program office has made progress in defining its planned acquisition approach for follow-on modernization, known as Block 4. DOD plans to take an incremental app

HMS Queen Elizabeth Sails into Portsmouth, Its Home Port
Britain's future flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed into her home port of Portsmouth for the first time today. Greeted by thousands of people lining the Portsmouth seafront, the 65,000-tonne carri

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Sweden to Boost Defense Spending
The government has agreed with the Moderates and the Center Party to further strengthening the Swedish Armed Forces and to ensure the overall capability of the Swedish Total Defence. In addition to pr...

GAO Warns of F-35 Upgrade Cost, Data Processing Overload
The Department of Defense's (DOD) F-35 program office has made progress in defining its planned acquisition approach for follow-on modernization, known as Block 4. DOD plans to take an incremental app...

HMS Queen Elizabeth Sails into Portsmouth, Its Home Port
Britain's future flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed into her home port of Portsmouth for the first time today. Greeted by thousands of people lining the Portsmouth seafront, the 65,000-tonne carri...

Private Sector Helps HAL Meet Tejas Initial Production Target
BENGALURU, India --- Since December 2013, when the indigenous Tejas fighter was operationally cleared to join the Indian Air Force (IAF), Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has struggled to establish...

US Announces F-35 Parts Warehouses in Netherlands, Australia
As part of the continued advancement of the F-35 Global Support Solution strategy, the Department of Defense has assigned F-35 regional warehousing capability in the European and Pacific regions to th...

Dutch See €1 Billion Revenue from F-35 Warehousing Deal
The Netherlands is to assume distribution and storage of all spare parts for the 400 F-35 fighter jets due to be stationed in Europe, the Telegraaf said on Thursday. The storage, management and distri...

Japan MoD Annual Report Warns of N. Korean Nuclear, Missile Advances
Japan is “deeply concerned” over North Korea’s progress in developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, calling the advances emblematic of the “new level of threat” posed by the reclusive state, th...

Iran Building Weapons Factories in Syria, Lebanon: Israeli Media
Israeli media are reporting that Iran is building a factory in northwest Syria to manufacture long-range rockets. The reports feature satellite images showing a site under construction in northwest...

China Displays Ground Weaponry to Foreign Officials
A large display of domestically developed arms used by Chinese land forces was presented to hundreds of foreign military officers at a shooting range in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Wednesd...

UK Launches Externally Loaded F-35B from 'Ski Jump' for First Time
The United Kingdom has taken a further step towards re-constituting its fixed-wing carrier strike capability with the first take-off of an externally loaded Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Str...

First Upgraded Indian Jaguar Flies with Israeli AESA Radar
BENGALURU, India --- Test pilots at defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) flew for the first time an upgraded Jaguar fighter aircraft fitted with an AESA (active electronically scanned array...

Royal Air Force A400M Debuts in Large-Scale Airlift Exercise
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. --- Many Mobility airframes from 11 international countries are attending Mobility Guardian, including the Royal Air Force’s A400M Atlas as it makes its debut in a larg...

Japan Donates Helicopter Parts to Philippines
TOKYO --- Japan's army will give thousands of helicopter parts to keep Philippine military choppers airborne, helping Tokyo gain clout with Manila in a contest with China to secure influence over the ...

GD Wins $115M for Submarine Design Work
General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded an $115,310,691 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-16-C-2111) for additional lead-yard serv...

Romania Signs LoI to Acquire Bell AH-1Z Combat Helos
WARSAW, Poland --- Romanian Defense Minister Adrian Tutuianu has signed a letter of intent with Bell Helicopter to purchase new combat helos for the country’s armed forces. The signing of the agree...

US Navy to Commission Third Expeditionary Sea Base Ship in Bahrain
WASHINGTON --- The Navy will commission the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) during a 5 p.m. AST ceremony Thursday, August 17, at Khalifa bin Salman Port in Al Hidd, Bahrain. The ...

First Australian-Made Tail Installed on Third Australian F-35A Fighter
The third Australian F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has received its Australian made vertical tail as it nears production completion. Victorian based company Marand is an Australian industry leader i...

BAE Delivers 10% of All F-35 Tails on Order
British engineers working on combat jets for the UK’s new aircraft carriers have reached a key production milestone. The 318th rear section for an F-35 Lightning II combat jet has rolled off the BA...

Hill, Robins AFBs to Provide F-35 Software Sustainment
HILL AFB, Utah --- Hill Air Force Base has earned another big piece in the future of sustaining the F-35, America’s newest fighter jet. The base already provides depot level modifications and maint...

Major Milestone for the Galileo Ground Control System Team
Early in July the Inter-site links between the two Galileo Ground Control Centres in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) and Fucino (Italy) were declared fully functional and approved for use by the Galileo Se...

First U.S.-Built A320 Airliner Takes Flight
MOBILE, AL. --- The first Airbus A320 aircraft to be produced at the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Mobile, Alabama, has flown for the first time. The A320 took off from the Mobile Aeroplex at ...

Saab Delivers Training Systems to Estonian Army
Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract with the Estonian Armed Forces to deliver BT46 training systems to the Estonian Army. The deliveries will be made in 2018. The Estonian Armed...

Austal, ASC Shipbuilding Re-Commit to National Shipbuilding Effort
Australia’s leading warship builders, Austal Limited and ASC Shipbuilding, re-assert their support for Federal Government policy to establish continuous sovereign Australian warship construction for A...

T-72 AMT: Kyiv Armored Plant Implements Combat Experience In ATO Zone
UKROBORONPROM SE "Kiev Armored Plant" – using net working capital – developed T-72A modernization up to T-72AMT. In the given sample, maximum attention was paid to experience, Ukrainian troops receive...

Australian Small Businesses Win Role in Defense R&D
Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, today announced a new research partnership to pursue innovative maritime Defence technologies. Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group...

Lockheed Completes Offsets for Canadian CC-130J Acquisition
OTTAWA, Ontario --- Lockheed Martin has successfully completed the Aircraft Capability - Tactical (ACP-T) Acquisition Industrial Regional Benefits (IRB) commitments valued at $1.4 billion associated w...

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