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September 07, 2018  

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US Seeks to Boost Arms Sales to India
NEW DELHI --- A decade ago, U.S. arms sales to India amounted to virtually nothing. Today, the United States is the second-largest arms supplier to India, and U.S. officials say they hope to increase

T625 Multirole Helicopter Completes First Flight
T625 Multirole Helicopter of Turkish Aerospace Industries has successfully performed its first flight on 6th of September 2018, at its facilities in Ankara, Turkey. The first prototype of new gener

Rolls-Royce to Power Boeing MQ-25 Unmanned Aircraft for US Navy
Rolls-Royce engines have been selected by Boeing to power the US Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aircraft, which will provide unmanned, carrier-based air-to-air refuelling. The US Navy has awarded the MQ

 


Turkish Aerospace Industries has carried out the first flight of its T625 multirole helicopter, the company’s most ambitious project to date. It marks a major milestone in the impressive development of Turkey’s aerospace industry. (TAI photo)
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    US Seeks to Boost Arms Sales to India
    NEW DELHI --- A decade ago, U.S. arms sales to India amounted to virtually nothing. Today, the United States is the second-largest arms supplier to India, and U.S. officials say they hope to increase ...

    T625 Multirole Helicopter Completes First Flight
    T625 Multirole Helicopter of Turkish Aerospace Industries has successfully performed its first flight on 6th of September 2018, at its facilities in Ankara, Turkey. The first prototype of new gener...

    Rolls-Royce to Power Boeing MQ-25 Unmanned Aircraft for US Navy
    Rolls-Royce engines have been selected by Boeing to power the US Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aircraft, which will provide unmanned, carrier-based air-to-air refuelling. The US Navy has awarded the MQ...

    Germany, Norway Advance Joint Submarine Program
    Norway and Germany have signed an extensive Program Arrangement for submarine cooperation. Early in 2017, the government chose Germany as Norway’s strategic partner in the submarine area. Together ...

    Egypt Launches Gowind Corvette, First Locally-Built Warship
    ALEXANDRIA --- The launching ceremony of the Port-Said Gowind corvette, the first warship built in Egypt, took place on September 6th, 2018 in Alexandria. This launching constitutes a success for Alex...

    F-35Bs Head to Horn of Africa on Marine Amphib USS Essex
    F-35Bs embarked with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, have recently just entered the U.S. Central Command area of operations for the first time. According to a photo uploaded by the Mari...

    India Has Issued RFP for Ka-226T Helicopters
    The India-Russia joint project to build Ka-226T helicopters in India is making progress after delays. Defence Ministry has issued the Request for Procurement (RFP) for 200 helicopters to Indo-Russian ...

    UK’s New Aircraft Carrier Arrives in USA for F-35 Trials
    HMS Queen Elizabeth, has arrived in Mayport, Florida for her first ever visit to the USA, following her formal commission into the Royal Navy by her sponsor, Her Majesty, The Queen. The 65,000-tonn...

    US, India Tout Defense Ties, But No Breakthroughs Seen
    The United States and India vowed to cooperate more closely on defense matters, but reported no breakthroughs regarding U.S. threats to impose sanctions over New Delhi's purchases of Iranian crude oil...

    Alliant, GD Share $1.8Bn Ammunition Contract
    Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, Plymouth, Minnesota (W52P1J-18-D-0092); and General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Marion, Illinois (W52P1J-18-D-0093), will compete for each order of the ...

    ‘Rafale Will Revolutionize Airpower In Sub-Continent:’ IAF Deputy Chief
    NEW DELHI --- Rafale once inducted into the Indian Air Force would “revolutionise airpower in our sub-continent” but is discussed for the wrong reasons, said Deputy Chief of IAF R. Nambiar on Wednesda...

    Turkey Begins Building Site for Russian S-400 Missiles – Reports
    WASHINGTON --- Turkey has begun building a platform site for a Russian S-400 missile defense system, despite pressure from Washington to abandon plans to purchase the military equipment, CNBC reported...

    At $48 Bn, US Arms Exports Already Exceed 2017 Total
    FARNBOROUGH --- The United States has already blown past the amount of weaponry it sold to foreign governments all last year — with more than two months to go before the fiscal year ends. American ...

    DRS Wins $435M for Second-Generation FLIRs
    DRS Network & Imagining Systems LLC, Melbourne, Florida, was awarded a $435,000,000 hybrid (cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price) contract for horizontal technology integration second generation f...

    GD Unit Wins $219M to Refit USS Bonhomme Richard
    General Dynamics, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California, was awarded a $218,717,565 firm-fixed-price contract for the execution of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) fiscal year 2018 do...

    PZL Mielec Delivers M28 Aircraft to Ecuadorian Army
    MIELEC, Poland --- An M28 short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft manufactured at PZL Mielec, a Sikorsky plant in Poland, Lockheed Martin has arrived in Ecuador following a trans-Atlantic flight fr...

    Finland to Sell 155mm Ammunition to Estonia
    The Government has approved, on 6 September 2018, the Defence Minister’s proposal on selling a batch of 155 mm field artillery ammunition to Estonia. The overall value of the procurement without value...

    France Orders 1,200 Light 4x4 Tactical Vehicles
    The Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) on September 5, 2018 awarded Arquus (formerly Renault Trucks Defense) an order for 1200 unprotected light tactical multipurpose vehicles (VLTP NP), designate...

    Jordan to Give Two Cobra Helicopters to Philippines
    MANILA --- Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher "Bong" Go on Thursday said the Philippines will get two Cobra helicopters from Jordan. Go relayed this information to Palace reporter...

    A US Space Force Might Fly, But Forget About Battling Klingons
    U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to create a Space Force might sound a little out of this world, but the idea of making military use of space is not new. “We already, in fact, have a kind of Sp...

    China Calls British Warship in S China Sea 'Provocative'
    The Chinese military protested on Thursday after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to Chinese islands in the South China Sea on Aug 31, calling the act a provocation and an infringement on Chi...

    USAF Secretary Urges Innovation in Software Acquisition
    MAXWELL AFB, Ala. --- The process used by the Air Force to acquire software is archaic and needs to modernize now if the service is to win in a peer-to-peer conflict, said Secretary of the Air Force H...

    US Army Needs Intelligence to Face “Peer Threats”
    U.S. Army operations increasingly depend on intelligence to help confront adversaries who are themselves highly competent, the Army said this week in a newly updated publication on military intelligen...

    Raytheon Building MALD, Awaiting New Navy Order
    NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The United States has a robust electronic warfare capability. The aerial combat environment is becoming more and more dangerous as new technologies enter service. To deal with this t...

    China Building More Anti-Radiation Missiles
    NEWTOWN, Conn. --- China is putting more effort into the development of electronic warfare aircraft and related weapon systems, including anti-radiation missiles. The People's Liberation Army Air Forc...

    IMI Claims ‘Most Accurate’ Guided Mortar Shell in the World
    RAMAT HASHRON, Israel --- IMI Systems developed a new and unique mortar munition of its kind in the world that is capable of pinpointing ground targets. According to the “Walla news” magazine, the ...

    Australia Approves Next-Gen Soldier Gear
    The Morrison Government has approved a project to enhance and continuously improve the equipment used by the Australian Defence Force. Minister for Defence, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, said the In...

    Russia Setting Up Military Aviation Service Centre in India
    The Radio-Electronic Technologies Concern (KRET), part of the Russian State Corporation Rostec, and the Indian company Space Era Materials and Processes have concluded an agreement on the participatio...

    Bell Team Selected for NASA Unmanned Aircraft Demo
    FORT WORTH, TX --- Bell Helicopter announced a cooperative agreement with NASA for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight demonstration in the National Airspace System (NAS) expected to be conducte...

    Luftwaffe Air Wins Logs 40,000 Eurofighter Flight Hours
    In August, Colonel Gero von Fritschen who is the Commodore based at the Laage Air Base in Northern Germany was proud to announce a special anniversary. The magical mark of 40.000 flying hours was acco...


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