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US Quietly Developing New LREW Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile
WASHINGTON, DC --- The existence of a two-year-old project to develop a new air-to-air missile capable of intercepting targets at great distances has emerged in US budget documents. The Office of t

Danish Auditor Questions Basis for F-35 Selection
The purpose of the study is to assess whether the Ministry of Defence has elaborated an adequate basis for the decision to procure 27 F-35 combat aircraft. The report answers the following questions:

Veil Lifted on New Italian Army Combat Helicopter
The Italian army’s future scout and escort helicopter was unveiled during the Combat Helicopters 2017 conference in Krakow, Poland. Last year, the mysterious AgustaWestland AW249 was unveiled almos

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US Quietly Developing New LREW Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile
WASHINGTON, DC --- The existence of a two-year-old project to develop a new air-to-air missile capable of intercepting targets at great distances has emerged in US budget documents. The Office of t...

Danish Auditor Questions Basis for F-35 Selection
The purpose of the study is to assess whether the Ministry of Defence has elaborated an adequate basis for the decision to procure 27 F-35 combat aircraft. The report answers the following questions: ...

Veil Lifted on New Italian Army Combat Helicopter
The Italian army’s future scout and escort helicopter was unveiled during the Combat Helicopters 2017 conference in Krakow, Poland. Last year, the mysterious AgustaWestland AW249 was unveiled almos...

No Need to Discuss Successor for Airbus Chief Enders – Germany
BERLIN --- The is no need to discuss who will succeed Airbus chief Tom Enders, whose contract expires in 2019, a German government spokesman said on Friday, adding that Germany also sees no need to ch...

Airbus Offers to Lead Future European Fighter Program
BERLIN --- European countries should step up efforts to jointly develop the next generation fighter jets to avoid becoming too reliant on US technology, Airbus Defence and Space chief executive Dirk H...

Raytheon Wins $2.87 Bn Training Contract
Raytheon Co., Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $2,870,000,000 hybrid (cost, fixed-price-award-fee, time-and-materials, cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-fee) contract for performance-based servic...

US Plans $10 Bn GPS III Contest After Lockheed Delays
The Air Force will hold a $10 billion contest for as many as 22 new Global Positioning System satellites that’s likely to pit Lockheed Martin Corp. -- which is years behind schedule on the ones it’s a...

F-35 Detachment Arrives in Okinawa
KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa --- Twelve U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs and approximately 300 Airmen from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, arrived here for the aircraft’s f...

India Tests Indigenous Anti-Airfield Weapon
Indigenously developed lightweight glide bomb, SAAW (Smart Anti Airfield Weapon) was successfully tested from Indian Air Force aircraft in the ranges at ITR, Chandipur, Odisha. The guided bomb rel...

BAE Completes Eurofighter Brimstone Missile Trials
A series of live firings of the MBDA Brimstone precision strike missile from a Eurofighter Typhoon have been completed successfully, adding enhanced capability to the aircraft. The trials, conducted ...

A350-1000 Completes Functional and Reliability Tests
TOULOUSE, France --- The A350-1000, the newest member of Airbus’ leading widebody family, has successfully completed its Functional & Reliability testing, bringing the aircraft a step closer to Type C...

US Navy Releases Comprehensive Report on Surface Force Incidents
WASHINGTON --- On Nov. 2, the Navy released the report of the Fleet Comprehensive Review conducted by Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Adm. Phil Davidson. The collisions between USS Fitzgerald...

US Navy Orders Back-to-Basics Reforms after Deadly Collisions
WASHINGTON --- The chief of Naval Operations said today that the collisions in the Pacific that killed 10 sailors aboard the USS Fitzgerald and seven sailors aboard the USS McCain were entirely preven...

Chinese Military Industry Seen Entering Golden Age
The next five to 10 years will become a golden age for the development of the Chinese military industry, backed by more financial and technical resources from civil capital, an industrial insider said...

Australia to Develop New-Gen Nulka Ship Decoy
The Turnbull Government will strengthen the Australian Defence Force’s anti-ship missile defence capability with a $207 million boost to the Nulka program. Nulka is a rocket propelled active missil...

Swedish Army Orders Additional 155mm BONUS Munition
KARLSKOGA, Sweden --- The Swedish Defense and Material Administration has awarded BAE Systems a contract to deliver 254 additional rounds of Bofors 155mm BONUS ammunition to the Swedish Army. Under th...

BAE Awards 15 More Type 26 Frigate Contracts
BAE Systems has awarded a further 15 manufacturing contracts to suppliers of the Type 26 programme, which entered the manufacturing phase in July, increasing the number of UK maritime jobs supported b...

More on Kongsberg Thyssenkrupp Joint Venture Company
ThyssenKrupp, its subsidiary Atlas Elektronik and Kongsberg joined forces and established a 50/50 joint venture company to shape the future combat systems of conventional submarines. The company named...

Thales Wins PAAMS Radar Support Contract
The OCCAR Director, Arturo Alfonso Meiriño and Gerben Edelijn, CEO of Thales Netherlands, have signed today, 2nd November, in Bonn, the Long-Range Radar In Service Support contract for the FSAF PAAMS ...

L3 to Design Advanced Sensors for Boeing Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
NEW YORK --- L3 Technologies will design next-generation communications, mission planning, autonomy, navigation, cybersecurity and anti-tamper capabilities for the U.S. Navy’s Extra Large Unmanned Und...

US Navy Cyber Mission Force Achieves Full Operational Capability
FORT MEADE, Md. --- All of the Navy's Cyber Mission Force teams achieved full operational capability last month, almost a full year ahead of schedule, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet official...

Exercise Tests Interoperability of US Army's AMARS Radio
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. --- The Army's Network Enterprise Technology Command is calling on Military Auxiliary Radio System operators around the country to participate in a quarterly interoperability comm...

US Navy to Christen Guided-Missile Destroyer Delbert D. Black
The Navy will christen the newest guided-missile destroyer the future USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119), Saturday, November 4 during a 10:00 a.m. CST ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Missi...

Drones, Proliferation and the MTCR: US Presents Discussion Paper
Over the past last couple of months there has been several reports in the defence and international press that the United States is looking to ‘renegotiate’ the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR...

USAF Accepts Raytheon's GPS OCX Launch & Checkout System
AURORA, Colo. --- The U.S. Air Force has officially accepted Raytheon's GPS Operational Control System launch and checkout system, also referred to as Block 0, signifying the company met all contractu...

OCCAR Launches New Phase of Software-Defined Radio Program
The OCCAR Director, Arturo Alfonso Meiriño and the a4ESSOR SaS president, Lino Lagana signed today, 2 November, in Bonn the contract for ESSOR Operational Capability 1. The ESSOR Programme launched...

Northrop’s Newest Mission Computer Tested for H-1 Helicopter Upgrades
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered its next-generation mission computer to the U.S. Marine Corps, which recently fielded the equipment for the first time on the UH‑1...

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