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N. Korea Warns of ‘Tragic Fate’ As US Flies Bombers Off Coast
WASHINGTON --- Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam, along with Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea today, chie

Australia Commissions First Air-Warfare Destroyer
The safety and security of Australia and our interests around the globe has been significantly strengthened with the commissioning of the first Australian-built Air Warfare Destroyer, HMAS Hobart, tod

Singapore Launches Its Fifth Littoral Mission Vessel
Speaker of Parliament Mr Tan Chuan-Jin officiated at the launching ceremony of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN)'s fifth Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV), Indomitable, at the Singapore Technologies Ma

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N. Korea Warns of ‘Tragic Fate’ As US Flies Bombers Off Coast
WASHINGTON --- Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam, along with Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea today, chie...

Australia Commissions First Air-Warfare Destroyer
The safety and security of Australia and our interests around the globe has been significantly strengthened with the commissioning of the first Australian-built Air Warfare Destroyer, HMAS Hobart, tod...

Singapore Launches Its Fifth Littoral Mission Vessel
Speaker of Parliament Mr Tan Chuan-Jin officiated at the launching ceremony of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN)'s fifth Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV), Indomitable, at the Singapore Technologies Ma...

Northrop’s Acquisition of Orbital ATK Strengthens Space Offering
Behind all the sound and fury surrounding the recent UTC/Rockwell deal, Northrop Grumman quietly moved in earlier this week and scooped up rocket and missile maker Orbital ATK in a deal valued at $9.2...

Raytheon's AMD Radar Tracks Simultaneous Missile Targets
TEWKSBURY, Mass.--- Raytheon Company's AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar acquired and tracked multiple threat-representative targets simultaneously during its third dedicated flight test at th...

US Air Force Leaders Address Aircrew Crisis
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. --- More than 60 Air Force senior leaders discussed the Air Force’s aircrew crisis which has left the service more than 1,500 pilots short of its requirements Sept. 22, 2017, a...

S&K Aerospace Wins $559M for Saudi AF Logistical Support
S&K Aerospace LLC, St. Ignatius, Montana, has been awarded a $559,011,645 fixed-price, incentive firm contract for the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) supply services effort. This program is comprise...

GD Unit Wins $341M for Spanish Nuclear Sub Work
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Connecticut, is being awarded a $341,161,778 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-14-C-2104) to exercise the option f...

Exercise Tests Power of Manned/Unmanned Integration
DAHLGREN, Va. --- The power of a Navy strike group's interoperability with unmanned vehicles, surface and air assets, guns, missiles, and combat systems was proven at the 2017 USS Dahlgren demonstrati...

US Army Artillery Practices Shoot & Scoot by Helicopter
ORO GRANDE RANGE, N.M. --- Power and lethality are what artillery crewmen assigned to M777 howitzers feel every time they pull the cord to send a round up to 15 miles downrange. Every outgoing shot f...

China Claims Pax Record for Y-20 Transport, But Gives No Number
China's heavy transport aircraft the Y-20 welcomed its first group of passengers aboard on Friday, while setting a record for the number of people carried on a single flight by a domestic aircraft. ...

Darpa Looks for New Approaches to Detect, Stop Small Drones
The rapid evolution of small unmanned air system (sUAS) technologies is fueling the exponential growth of the commercial drone sector, creating new asymmetric threats for warfighters. DARPA’s Mobile F...

Russia Launches Glonass Navigation Satellite
Today, at 03.03 (MSK), a Space Forces combat crew of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Souyz-2.1b space launch vehicle with the Russian Glonass-M navigation space system on the board from...

NATO-Russian Relations: The View from China
MOSCOW --- The week-long Russia-Belarus joint military drills Zapad-2017 (West-2017) ended Wednesday, and yet anxious speculations around them from western countries are still continuing to hover. ...

UK at Heart of International Missile Defence Exercise
A major Allied air and missile defence exercise got underway at the Hebrides Range in the Western Isles off Scotland on Sunday (24 September 2018) with the aim of fostering cooperation between NATO Al...

First Sea Lord Responds to Daily Telegraph Article
Open letter from Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, to the Daily Telegraph regarding their recent article entitled 'Weakened Navy' (15th September 2017). As ...

US Navy Moves Super Hornet Squadron to Iwakuni
ATSUGI, Japan --- The "Eagles" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 115 departed Naval Air Facility Atsugi for the final time on Sunday, September 10. The squadron's F/A-18E Super Hornets launched from...

EDA Seeks Industry Input on Main Battle Tank Optimization
BRUSSELS --- In spring 2017, the European Defence Agency (EDA) launched the ‘OMBT-Leo2’ project, a new Pooling & Sharing initiative which aims at optimizing existing Main Battle Tank (MBT) capabilitie...

Swedish Air Defense Exercises Against US Attack Helicopters
For several days during the Armed Forces exercise, AURORA 17, Swedish air defence units have had a unique opportunity to exercise against a highly sophisticated threat – AH-64 Apache attack helicopter...

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