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France Pushes for 'Make in India' Rafales
NEW DELHI --- After selling 36 Rafale fighter jets to India for $8.7 billion (Rs 58,000 crore) last year, the French government is now pushing for a project to manufacture warplanes in India to give a

Turkish Army Enters Northern Iraq for First Time In Nine Years
ANKARA --- The Turkish military has launched a land operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, stating that its aim is to “prevent PKK militants from threatening b

Airbus A330neo Makes Maiden Flight
TOULOUSE, France --- The first A330neo took off this morning at Blagnac in Toulouse, France at 09.57 hrs local time, for its maiden flight taking place over south-western France. The aircraft, MSN1795

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France Pushes for 'Make in India' Rafales
NEW DELHI --- After selling 36 Rafale fighter jets to India for $8.7 billion (Rs 58,000 crore) last year, the French government is now pushing for a project to manufacture warplanes in India to give a...

Turkish Army Enters Northern Iraq for First Time In Nine Years
ANKARA --- The Turkish military has launched a land operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, stating that its aim is to “prevent PKK militants from threatening b...

Airbus A330neo Makes Maiden Flight
TOULOUSE, France --- The first A330neo took off this morning at Blagnac in Toulouse, France at 09.57 hrs local time, for its maiden flight taking place over south-western France. The aircraft, MSN1795...

Royal Navy May Axe Its Last Amphibious Ships to Pay for New Carriers
After the U.K. Ministry of Defense declared 2017 to be the "year of the Navy," there are a number of notable achievements in this area, including the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth putting to se...

KAL, Boeing Team for Korean Chinook Upgrade
SEOUL --- Korean Air Lines Co. has signed a deal to partner with Boeing Co. to cooperate on technology in upgrading the CH-47 Chinook helicopter, the company said Thursday. The Korean flag carrier ...

BAE, Cammell Laird in Joint Bid for Type 31 Frigate Contract
In response to the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) evolving requirements as outlined in the National Shipbuilding Strategy, BAE Systems will bring together its warship design and engineering capability an...

Turkey Plans 30% Hike In 2018 Military Spending
Turkey plans to boost its military spending significantly next year, according to preliminary budget figures revealed this week. Turkey is currently the world's 18th-largest military spender, with ...

Raytheon Faces Extra Costs for Smart Bomb Delays
Raytheon Co. will probably have to absorb millions of dollars in cost overruns from development and initial production of a new smart bomb that will be the F-35 fighter jet’s primary weapon, the U.S. ...

Late Report of Israeli F-35 Birdstrike Fuels Speculation of Missile Hit
Two storks hit an F-35 fighter jet during a training flight on Tuesday (Emphasis added—Ed.), requiring the plane to undergo maintenance work, the army said. The birds hit the F-35, called the “Adir...

Saab Wins Order for Meteor Subsystems from MBDA
Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract with MBDA for deliveries of subsystems for the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) missile system. The order value amounts to...

Russia Developing Weapons Based on “New Physical Principles”
MOSCOW --- Weapons and military equipment based new physical principles of destruction are being tested at the Kapustin Yar testing range in South Russia’s Astrakhan Region, its chief Maj. Gen. Oleg K...

USAF Secretary Details Plans for Space Domain
WASHINGTON --- Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson addressed the importance of the Air Force’s space mission during the 2017 Potomac Officers Club Space Innovations, Programs and Policies Summit...

Textron Wins $333M Order for Mobile Strike Vehicles
Textron Systems Marine and Land Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, has been awarded a $332,900,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of up to 255 mobile strike force vehicles and related fie...

GA-ASI Signs Two Cooperation Agreements in South Korea
SAN DIEGO/SEOUL –-- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Huneed Technologies Co. Ltd. establishing potential areas of future collabor...

General Speaks About State of USAF Acquisition Enterprise
WASHINGTON --- Lt. Gen. Arnie Bunch, military deputy for the office of the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, spoke about the state of the acquisition enterprise during an Air Force...

Israeli Air Force Details UAV Operator Training
After UAV operators finish their Operator Course, which is a six-month basic training course for UAV operation, they undergo their Operational Training Course in Palmahim AFB. The course used to be he...

Indian Warships Enter Vladivostok for International Drills
VLADIVOSTOK --- Indian warships have entered Vladivostok on Thursday to take part in the first Russian-Indian joint-force drills dubbed "Indra-2017," Pacific Fleet spokesman Captain 2nd rank Nikolay V...

Formidable Shield 2017 Concludes with 11 Missile Launches
Ships from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States participated in a successful live-fire integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) scenario, ...

Experimental Virtual and Mixed Reality Tech for Future Military
LOS ANGELES --- In military training, the body and mind are often pushed to the limit. In some cases, it could prove to be deadly. "We are killing more Marines and soldiers in training than in comb...

New Zealand Defence Force Buys New Sniper Rifles
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is entering an agreement to buy two new weapons, the Barrett M107A1 anti-materiel weapon and the Barrett Multi Role Adaptive Design (MRAD) sniper rifle. Forty M...

Croatian Defense Project Gets European Funding
BRUSSELS --- For the first time, a fully-fledged defence research project - initiated by the Croatian Ministry of Defence and supported by the European Defence Agency (EDA) - has been awarded EU co-fu...

Leonardo Extends NATO’s Cybersecurity Protection
The Agency has completed the deployment of the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) to additional sites of the Alliance, significantly improving cybersecurity protection of NATO networks...

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