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Indigo Orders 430 Airbus A320neo Aircraft in Record $50 Billion Deal
DUBAI --- Airbus, Indigo Partners’ four portfolio airlines have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the purchase by the four airlines of 430 additional A320neo Family aircraft. The aircraft w

Flydubai Signs “Historic” Deal for 225 Boeing 737 MAX Jets
DUBAI --- Boeing and flydubai signed a landmark agreement today for 225 737 MAX airplanes with a list price value of $27 billion. The deal represents the largest-ever single-aisle jet order – by numbe

UAE Will Upgrade Fleet of Mirage 2000-9 Fighters
SAINT-CLOUD, France --- Today, during the Dubai Airshow, the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces have announced their intention to sign with Dassault Aviation a contract for the upgrade of their Mirage

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Indigo Orders 430 Airbus A320neo Aircraft in Record $50 Billion Deal
DUBAI --- Airbus, Indigo Partners’ four portfolio airlines have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the purchase by the four airlines of 430 additional A320neo Family aircraft. The aircraft w...

Flydubai Signs “Historic” Deal for 225 Boeing 737 MAX Jets
DUBAI --- Boeing and flydubai signed a landmark agreement today for 225 737 MAX airplanes with a list price value of $27 billion. The deal represents the largest-ever single-aisle jet order – by numbe...

UAE Will Upgrade Fleet of Mirage 2000-9 Fighters
SAINT-CLOUD, France --- Today, during the Dubai Airshow, the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces have announced their intention to sign with Dassault Aviation a contract for the upgrade of their Mirage ...

CDB Aviation Confirms Order for 90 Airbus A320neo
DUBAI --- Dublin based CDB Aviation Lease Finance DAC (CDB Aviation) announces a firm order for 90 A320neo Family aircraft during the Dubai Airshow 2017. The agreement was reached in two steps: an ori...

Germany Quintuples Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Egypt
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration has been criticized for massively increasing arms sales to Middle East dictatorships Saudi Arabia and Egypt. One opposition lawmaker branded the trade ...

UAE Military Award $3.5bn Contracts at Dubai Airshow
DUBAI --- The UAE Armed Forces on Tuesday announced that it had signed dozens of contracts worth Dh13.13 billion ($3.57 billion—Ed.) in the first three days of the Dubai Airshow including a contract t...

United Arab Emirates Order Five Airbus C295 Aircraft
DUBAI --- The United Arab Emirates Air Force & Air Defence has ordered five Airbus C295 medium transport aircraft. The agreement, announced at the Dubai Airshow, takes the C295 orderbook past 200, ...

UAE’s Falcon Aviation Adds Three Airbus H160 Helos
DUBAI --- Falcon Aviation and Airbus Helicopters have signed a new MoU at the Dubai airshow expanding their commitment to the H160 adding three additional helicopters to the original Letter of Intent ...

First Japanese-Assembled F-35B Arrives At Misawa Air Base
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan --- A Defense Contract Management Agency government flight representative landed the first Japanese-made F-35B on Misawa AB's runway, Nov. 2. Maj. Elijah Supper piloted the b...

Ethiopian Airlines Orders Four Boeing 777 Freighters
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates --- Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines announced an order for four Boeing 777 Freighters – the world's largest and longest-range twin-engine cargo jet – in a deal valued at more...

CFM Says LEAP Engine Delivering As Orders Keep Growing
DUBAI, U.A.E --- CFM International's advanced LEAP engine continues to set a new industry standard for fuel efficiency and asset utilization as fleet continues the most rapid buildup in commercial avi...

HASC Democrats Provide DoD Budget Reality Check
WASHINGTON, D.C. –-- House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) made the following statement about the House of Representatives’ passage of the FY 18 NDAA conference report: “W...

Former UK Military Chiefs Warn "Defence is Close to Breaking"
Years of defence cuts have left Britain's armed forces "close to breaking", former senior military commanders have warned. MPs on the Commons Defence Committee were told that the Army was "20 years...

HAL Defends Tejas Fighter with Indian General’s Help
BENGALURU --- The induction and operationalization of the indigenous fighter jet Light Combat Aircraft-Tejas received a major boost with Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria, AVSM, VM, Air Officer Commanding-in-...

Montenegro Plans First Military Procurement in NATO Era
WARSAW, Poland --- The tiny nation of Montenegro is readying what will mark its first major military procurement as a member of the NATO Alliance. One of six entities within the former Cold War-ear...

Canada Updates JUSTAS Unmanned Aircraft Project
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s Joint Unmanned Surveillance and Target Acquisition System (JUSTAS) project was established to procure an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for the Canadian Armed Forces (CA...

UK and US Armies Trial High-Tech Battlefield Equipment
A world-first in the US has seen British soldiers controlling 4x4s with Xbox-style controllers and a UK driverless truck leading American trucks in an unmanned convoy. Continuing the MOD’s investme...

China to Commission New Deep-Sea Manned Submersible
China's new manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi, or "deep sea warrior," will be used to explore the biological resources and geological conditions in the South China Sea, a Chinese expert said Tuesday....

Chinese Unmanned Aircraft Stand Out at Dubai Airshow
Two Chinese-developed series of unmanned planes have become highlights of the ongoing Dubai Airshow. The series of planes are called "Wing Loong" and "Yunying". During the airshow, the full-scale m...

Royal Navy Base Turns into Land-Based Aircraft Carrier
Until next Thursday, fliers at Culdrose are squeezing in more than 600 hours of fast jet, turbo-prop and whirlybird action as the Fleet Air Arm's Cornish air station pretends it's a living, breathing ...

Thales Talks Up Radar’s BMD Performance at Exercise
This unique achievement was the highlight in Formidable Shield 2017, an integrated air and missile defence exercise organized by the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet in the Hebrides test range in the Atlantic Oc...

Ukrainian Wants Army to Achieve NATO Compatibility by 2020
“The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and Armed Forces of Ukraine implement the Action Plan on defence reform in 2016-2020,” Acting Secretary of State of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Volodymyr Hov...

Keel Laid for Future US Navy DDG 123 Destroyer
PASCAGOULA, Miss. --- The keel of the future USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) was ceremoniously laid on Nov. 14 at the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) shipyard. The ship’s keel was auth...

Swedish Military Takes Stock of Aurora 17 Exercise
Major-General Bengt Andersson told Radio Sweden the Aurora 17 exercise went better than expected. However, there is a need to improve the Armed Forces' logistics, transport and communication systems. ...

Mexico Certifies Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter
STRATFORD, Conn.--- Mexico's Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) approved the Offshore and Utility Type Certificate for the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter. The certificate enables the operation ...

Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Fleet Reaches 400,000 Flight Hours
PHILADELPHIA --- Boeing and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. announced today the Bell Boeing V-22 fleet of tiltrotor aircraft, including both CV-22 and MV-22 variants, has surpassed the 400,000-flight hou...

BAE Helps DARPA Test Space Tech Against New Threats
DARPA has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop an innovative space evaluation and analysis testbed The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems a contract wort...

Australia Minister Talks Up RUAG Australia’s Capabilities
Australian company, RUAG Australia, has demonstrated its capability and contribution to large Defence projects across a range of weapons systems including the global F-35 Program. During a recent t...

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