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France Unveils Plan to Invest €295Bn in 2019-2025 to Upgrade Military Equipment
PARIS --- The draft Loi de Programmation Militaire (LPM, or Military Program Law) was presented today (Feb 08) to the Council of Ministers. Covering the period 2019-2025, this project was prepared in

Two-Year Budget Agreement Provides Major Boost for Pentagon
WASHIGNTON --- The U.S. Senate has reached a deal that will increase federal spending limits by $296 billion over two years, including $165 billion for national defense. If passed by the House, the le

China's Says J-20 Stealth Jet Enters Air Forced “Combat Service”
BEIJING --- China's latest J-20 stealth fighter has been commissioned into the air force's combat service, a spokesperson confirmed Friday. The J-20 is China's fourth-generation medium and long-ran

French Defense Plan Adds More Rafales, Tankers
PARIS --- Although it is not the most favored service in France’s 2019-2025 Military Planning Law (LPM), which earmarks €295 billion to modernize the armed forces, the French air force’s capabilities ...

France Unveils Plan to Invest €295Bn in 2019-2025 to Upgrade Military Equipment
PARIS --- The draft Loi de Programmation Militaire (LPM, or Military Program Law) was presented today (Feb 08) to the Council of Ministers. Covering the period 2019-2025, this project was prepared in ...

Two-Year Budget Agreement Provides Major Boost for Pentagon
WASHIGNTON --- The U.S. Senate has reached a deal that will increase federal spending limits by $296 billion over two years, including $165 billion for national defense. If passed by the House, the le...

China's Says J-20 Stealth Jet Enters Air Forced “Combat Service”
BEIJING --- China's latest J-20 stealth fighter has been commissioned into the air force's combat service, a spokesperson confirmed Friday. The J-20 is China's fourth-generation medium and long-ran...

US Navy Issues RFP for Next DDG 51 Multiyear Contract
WASHINGTON --- The Navy released the final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the DDG 51 Fiscal Years (FY) 2018-2022 Multiyear Procurement (MYP) for Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers on Feb. 8. ...

UK Urged to Block GKN Takeover Over Security Concerns
MPs have asked the government whether it will consider using powers to block takeovers for national security reasons to stop a hostile bid for the engineering company GKN, which makes technology used ...

US Responds to Attack by Pro-Regime Syrian Forces
WASHINGTON --- When Syrian pro-regime forces attacked Syrian Democratic Forces yesterday, they moved in a battalion-sized unit formation supported by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems a...

China’s PLA Wants Better Protection of Defense Technology IP
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) pushed for more robust protection of the intellectual properties behind Chinese military and technological innovations in an article published in the PLA-run China N...

Putting the Asian Fighter Market In Perspective
SINGAPORE --- The Singapore Airshow is important to the world’s fighter manufacturers for one very simple reason: Asia takes 24 percent of the world’s combat aircraft exports by value. That makes it t...

Lockheed Wins $524 Million Contract for PAC-3 Missiles
DALLAS --- The United States and allied military forces will upgrade their missile defense capabilities under a $524 million contract modification for production and delivery of Lockheed Martin Patrio...

Harris Wins $161M Onboard Jammer Order for US Navy, Australia
Harris Corp., Clifton, New Jersey, is being awarded $161,049,786 for modification P00002 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-17-C-0090) to exercise an option for the procurement ...

HMS Queen Elizabeth Conducts Helicopter Trials At Sea
For the first time ever, a giant RAF Chinook helicopter has been stowed in the hangar of a British aircraft carrier. With the nose protruding over the edge of one of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s two might...

Northrop Wins Saudi Arabian Order for EW Simulation
BUFFALO, N.Y. --– Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $75 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract award to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) support services to the Ki...

Marshall to Support Swedish Air Force C-130 Fleet
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has won the contract to support the Swedish Air Force fleet of Lockheed Martin C-130 aircraft, by providing depth maintenance services. Försvarets materielverk,...

Russian AF to Receive 14 SU-30SM Fighters and 10 YAK-130 Trainers
Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov checked the implementation of missions of the Ministry of Defence at the Irkutsk aviation plant. "This year, the program of production includes 24 aircraft: 10 ...

BAE to Modernize Head-Up Displays for United Arab Emirates F-16 Fleet
BAE Systems has been selected by Lockheed Martin to modernize head-up displays (HUD) on F-16 aircraft for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces, replacing the fleet’s analog system with advanced...

Bell V-280 Valor Tiltrotor Progresses Through Flight Tests
The Bell V-280 Valor reached a flight speed of 80 knots and is flying at an altitude of 1,000 feet above ground level. Some of the some of the test points demonstrated: Ground taxi, hover taxi, lo...

China Challenges India’s Motives for Frequent Missile Tests
India's frequent missile tests are aimed at China as an enemy, specialists said after India reportedly test-fired a Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missile on Wednesday. India successfully launched i...

HMS Montrose Checks Out Her Kit in Norway
The Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose has spent a busy week on the NATO weapon and sensor range at Stavanger, in southern Norway. The ship arrived in time for a much-anticipated weekend alongside in one...

Swedish Armed Forces, FMV to Reorganize Matériel and Logistics
On 8 February, the Government commissioned the Armed Forces and the Defense Material Workshop (FMV) to carry out the reorganization of data in the material and logistics supply that the government has...

C-17 Crews Help to Realign Assets to Afghanistan
AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar --- Late in January, at an altitude of nearly 30,000 feet, a 174-foot long aircraft cut through the air with more than 40,000 pounds of thrust per engine. The equipment and pe...

Airbus Sees Many Opportunities in Asia for H145 Helicopter
Asia Pacific is an active region for the rotorcraft industry, where both the civil and military markets are showing potential for 2018. Among the helicopters generating the greatest interest, the H145...

Germany Agrees to Host New NATO Headquarters
Germany is expected to set up a new NATO planning and control center, possibly near the former capital Bonn, as part of the alliance's upgrade plans in Europe. The new headquarters is designed to a...

F-35 MRO Training Center Welcomes 1000th Foreign Student
EGLIN AFB, Fla. --- The F-35 Academic Training Center welcomed its 1,000th international maintenance student, British Royal Air Force Sgt. Matthew Elwood, February 1, 2018, at Eglin Air Force Base. ...

BAE Testing for Aircraft Flexible Payload Bay is Complete
Ground based trials to demonstrate the release of a full-sized store from an aircraft payload bay have successfully taken place thanks to a bespoke rig built at our site at Warton, Lancashire. Rele...

MoD Completes Improvements to Falklands Harbour Jetty
A state-of-the-art jetty which will improve military capability in the Falkland Islands and improve life for personnel on the Islands has been completed by DIO. Work to upgrade the jetty in Mare Ha...

Northrop to Supply Ground-to-Air Radios to Denmark’s NAVIAIR
MARKET DEEPING, U.K. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation’s U.K.-based air traffic management (ATM) subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has been awarded a contract by NAVIAIR, the Danish air navigation service ...

Saab Delivers MRJ Manuals to Mitsubishi Aircraft
Saab has successfully set up and produced maintenance manuals for Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation’s new airliner, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ). This is the largest technical information contract ...

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