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September 29, 2017  

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China's J-20 Fighter Enters Service
BEIJING --- China's latest J-20 stealth fighter has been officially commissioned into military service, according to Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense on Thursday. The flig

Analysts Pan Boeing Strategy In Pushing for Tariffs on Bombardier
Leading aerospace analysts are highly critical of Boeing’s push to impose steep tariffs on U.S. sales of Bombardier’s small CSeries passenger jet, saying the case will damage the long-term interests o

US Army Awards $693M Export Orders for TOW, Hellfire
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $300,088,180 fixed-price-incentive domestic and foreign military sales (Lebanon, Jordon and Morocco) contract for Tube-launched Optically-

 


China’s Ministry of Defense has announced that its J-20 “stealth” fighter has officially entered service, just six years after its maiden flight, but it is not clear what this in-service status actually means. (Twitter photo)
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  • 28/09/2017 22:45:03


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    US Lawmakers Exploit Tragedy to Demand Defense Dollars
    Every time a military tragedy occurs, a politician will inevitably rush to blame it on the “gutted” Pentagon budget. After 15 Marines were seriously injured when an Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV) bu...

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    China's J-20 Fighter Enters Service
    BEIJING --- China's latest J-20 stealth fighter has been officially commissioned into military service, according to Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense on Thursday. The flig...

    Analysts Pan Boeing Strategy In Pushing for Tariffs on Bombardier
    Leading aerospace analysts are highly critical of Boeing’s push to impose steep tariffs on U.S. sales of Bombardier’s small CSeries passenger jet, saying the case will damage the long-term interests o...

    US Army Awards $693M Export Orders for TOW, Hellfire
    Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, has been awarded a $300,088,180 fixed-price-incentive domestic and foreign military sales (Lebanon, Jordon and Morocco) contract for Tube-launched Optically-...

    Boeing, Lockheed Awarded Orca Extra-Large UUV Contracts
    -- Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems, Riviera Beach, Florida, is being awarded a $43,177,098 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for design efforts of the Orca Extra Large Unmanned Unders...

    Vigor Works Wins $980M Contract for US Army Work Boats
    Vigor Works LLC, Clackamas, Oregon, has been awarded a $979,794,011 firm-fixed-price contract for Maneuver Support Vessel (Light). Bids were solicited via the Internet with five received. Work loc...

    GA Wins $218M Order for Gray Eagle-ER Drone
    General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $163,212,869 modification (P00119) to contract W58RGZ-13-C-0109 for MQ-1C Gray Eagle extended range supplemental produc...

    GD Unit Wins 2 Destroyer Contracts, But Amount Is Secret
    General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive-firm target modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-2305) for incorporation of the Flight III...

    Northrop Wins $267M for Counter-IED Jammers
    Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Herndon, Virginia, is being awarded $267,655,035 for firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost only modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-6327) f...

    Insitu Wins Scan Eagle Order for Iraq
    Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is being awarded $7,758,625 firm-fixed-price delivery order N0001917F0251 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-17-G-0001) for the procurement o...

    Upgraded Brazilian Navy Super Lynx Makes Maiden Flight
    ROME --- Leonardo is pleased to announce the successful maiden flight of the first of eight upgraded Brazilian Navy Super Lynx Mk21B helicopters at its Yeovil facility, in southwest England, on 28th S...

    Royal Air Force Receives Third Rivet Joint ISR Aircraft
    NEW YORK --- L3 Technologies announced today that it has successfully delivered the third and final RC-135V/W Rivet Joint (RJ) signals intelligence aircraft to Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF), a miles...

    After 3 Years, UK and US See Daesch Collapse Imminent
    Daesh fighters are being pinned down by the Royal Air Force in their former stronghold of Raqqa as the UK marks three years of tackling the barbaric cult in Iraq and Syria. Royal Air Force aircraft...

    New Radar Sensor Provides Clear Vision in Any Weather
    DARPA’s Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (ViSAR) program recently completed flight tests, successfully demonstrating a new sensor that can capture real-time video through clouds. The ViSAR program, w...

    MDA to Support Canada's Broad-Area Maritime Surveillance System
    RICHMOND, BC --- MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. today announced that it has signed a five-year contract with Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) that includes one base year in addi...

    Exercise Tests Defense of US Ballistic Missile Bases
    WARREN AFB, Wyo. --- Airmen from the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; 91st MW at Minot AFB, North Dakota and the 341st MW at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, participated in the Road W...

    MBDA Signs MoU with Australian Firm for MMP Production
    MBDA is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Victorian based company, Cablex. The MoU will see MBDA and Cablex work together to explore global supply chain opportun...

    Finland to Participate in NATO Crisis Management Drills in October
    Finland will participate in NATO's CMX17 crisis management exercises next month, according to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Finland joined NATO's Partnership for Peace in 1994 and has regularly ta...

    Hensoldt Acquires British Radar Specialist Kelvin Hughes
    TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany --- Hensoldt, the leading independent sensor house, has acquired the provider of security and maritime radar solutions Kelvin Hughes, London, from UK private equity firm ECI and m...

    Terma Details Exhibit at Pacific International Sow
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark --- Terma is proud to be aboard Royal Australia Navy’s new Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Hobart that recently officially entered service. In late 2008, Terma was awarded a contrac...

    MDBA Focus on Anti-Tank, Anti-Ship Missiles at Pacific 2017 Show
    MBDA is pleased to announce its presence at Pacific 2017 held in Sydney from the 3rd to 5th of October. At the exposition MBDA will be displaying a number of major developments, not only aimed at mari...

    Patria Touts Helicopter Services at Helitech
    Patria attends Helitech International 2017 – the largest helicopter event in Europe, held on 3-5th October at ExCel in London – stand H31-G30. At the event Patria will showcase its helicopter life-cyc...


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