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SAS Orders 50 Additional A320neo to Create Single-Type Fleet
Today, SAS has decided to order 50 Airbus A320neo aircraft with delivery from spring 2019 through 2023. This order means SAS for the first time will have a single-type fleet by 2023 that consists of t

Lion Air Orders 50 Boeing 737 MAX10s
JAKARTA, Indonesia --- Boeing and the Lion Air Group today announced the airline purchased 50 of Boeing's new 737 MAX 10 airplane, which will be the most fuel-efficient and profitable single-aisle jet

China Strongly Opposes US Submarine License for Taiwan
BEIJING --- China strongly opposed the United States' approving license for Taiwan submarine plan and urged the US to stop all forms of military contact between the US and Taiwan, as well as arms sale

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SAS Orders 50 Additional A320neo to Create Single-Type Fleet
Today, SAS has decided to order 50 Airbus A320neo aircraft with delivery from spring 2019 through 2023. This order means SAS for the first time will have a single-type fleet by 2023 that consists of t...

Lion Air Orders 50 Boeing 737 MAX10s
JAKARTA, Indonesia --- Boeing and the Lion Air Group today announced the airline purchased 50 of Boeing's new 737 MAX 10 airplane, which will be the most fuel-efficient and profitable single-aisle jet...

China Strongly Opposes US Submarine License for Taiwan
BEIJING --- China strongly opposed the United States' approving license for Taiwan submarine plan and urged the US to stop all forms of military contact between the US and Taiwan, as well as arms sale...

French Naval Aviation Group Deploys to US
As part of the Chesapeake deployment, 350 sailors and 13 French Navy aircraft (twelve Rafale M and one Hawkeye) have arrived in Norfolk, in the United States. This 6,500-kilometers transatlantic cr...

S. Korea May Change Preferred Bidder for Spy Satellite Project
The arms procurement agency hinted Tuesday it could replace LIG Nex1 with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) as the preferred bidder for its ongoing spy satellite project. Last month, the Defense Acq...

A Double Look at the US Navy’s MQ-25 Competition
ST. LOUIS --- After years of requirements churn and program uncertainty, the signal to companies vying to build the Navy’s first operational unmanned carrier aircraft is crystal clear: the Navy wants ...

BAE Wins New Order for US Navy Mk110 Naval Guns
The fully automatic Mk110 gun system, known internationally as the Bofors 57Mk3, is the deck gun of choice for the LCS. BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by General Dynamics to provide two ad...

US Approves $300M Guided Rocket Sale to Qatar
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Qatar of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems (APKWS) II Guidance Sections for an estimated...

China's New Carrier to Undergo Sea Trials On April 23: Reports
China's second aircraft carrier or the country's first domestically built carrier, known as the Type 001A, might undergo its first sea trials on April 23, China's Navy Day, media reported. Online p...

Cobham Pilot Breathing Sensors Fly on F-18 and T-45
Cobham announces its VigilOX pilot breathing sensor system has recently flown three test flights on US Navy F-18 and T-45 aircraft, as acknowledged by Rear Admiral Sara Joyner during the House Armed S...

Saab Touts Gripen-E Offer to Latest Indian Fighter Competition
Saab’s Gripen E is the world’s most advanced, multi-role fighter aircraft. It brings a complete, future-proof technology suite combined with a ‘Make in India’ proposal that will establish the world’s ...

Lockheed Justifies US Navy’s F-35C Acquisition
1. The Legacy Fleet is Aging The U.S. Navy’s existing fleet of F/A-18 Hornets and F/A-18 Super Hornets is aging fast, with many in need of replacement or costly and time-consuming Service Life Exten...

TAI Delivers First Satellite-Controlled ANKA-S Unmanned Aircraft
As soon as the acceptance test for the first ANKA-S System, developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) with satellite control capability, which performs on BLOS day and night autonomous flights a...

BAE Systems Banking on Rising Defense Budgets
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- As political changes sweep the U.S. and U.K, defense is rebounding following several years of austerity. Military spending in the U.K. and U.S. had been slowly moving upward thank...

Turkish Air Force Has Six ANKA-S Unmanned Aircraft
ISTANBUL --- The number of ANKA-S unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the inventory of the Turkish Air Forces Command rose to six. In a written statement released by the Undersecretariat for Defense ...

Switchblade UAV Demos Anti-Swarm Naval Defense
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. --- AeroVironment, Inc. today announced the successful maritime demonstration of a Puma-Switchblade automated sensor-to-shooter (S2S) capability from a US Navy Coastal Riverine Cr...

US Army Tests New Drones with Recon, Chemical Detection Capabilities
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany --- In the fields of Grafenwoehr, Germany, service members from the U.S., the U.K. and other U.S. Department of Defense entities watched as several new unmanned aerial tools were ...

China’s ARJ21 Returns After Iceland Crosswind Flight Tests
ARJ21-700 AC104, an aircraft independently developed by China, landed smoothly at Yanliang airport of Xi'an at 3:00 p.m. on April 8th, 2018, and slowly went through the welcome "water gate" after a 41...

CRS Updates Report on FFG(X) Future Frigate Program
The Navy in 2017 initiated a new program, called the FFG(X) program, to build a class of 20 guided-missile frigates (FFGs). The Navy wants to procure the first FFG (X) in FY2020, the second in FY2021,...

CRS Issues New Report on Littoral Combat Ship Program
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a relatively inexpensive surface combatant equipped with modular mission packages. Navy plans call for procuring a total of 32 LCSs. The first LCS was procured in FY2...

DoD Official Highlights Value of Artificial Intelligence to Future Warfare
WASHINGTON --- Mining the advantages of artificial intelligence is in the best interest of national security, a senior Pentagon official said today at the New America Future of War Conference here. ...

European Air-to-Air Refuelling Training Takes Off
EINDHOVEN --- The 5th European Air-to-Air Refuelling Training exercise (EART 2018) kicked off today 9 April at Eindhoven Air Base in the Netherlands. EART 2018 brings together tankers from Germany, th...

India Orders Locally-Made Bullet-Proof Jackets
A major contract through capital procurement route, for procurement of 1,86,138 Bullet Proof Jackets (BPJs) has been signed. The impending requirement of the Indian Army for effective BPJs, has been m...

LEAP-1A Engine Wins Chinese Type Certificate
WEST CHESTER, Ohio --- The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued the Validated Type Certificate (VTC) for CFM International's LEAP-1A engine on March 30, 2018, a critical milestone that...

Russia Demos Latest TV7-117ST Turboprop
A full-scale specimen of the state-of-the-art TV7-117ST engine for the Il-114-300 airliner is being demonstrated for the first time ever at the exhibition stand of the United Engine Corporation at the...

L3 Unveils Advanced Iver Autonomous Undersea Vehicle
NEW YORK --- L3 Technologies announced today that its new Iver Precision Workhorse (Iver PW) autonomous undersea vehicle (AUV) will be featured at its exhibit (Booth 2339) at the 2018 Sea-Air-Space Ex...

US Army Trying to Fix Afghanistan Trainers’ Career Cul-de-Sac
The U.S. military, Pentagon wags will tell you, hasn’t been fighting a 16-year-long war in Afghanistan. Instead, it has fought 16 one-year wars, each chock-a-block full of new strategies and new leade...

Predator-Series UAVs Pass Five-Million Flight Hour Mark
SAN DIEGO --- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) today announced that its Predator-series family of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), encompassing Predator, Predator B, Gray Eagle, and...

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