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April 05, 2019  

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Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft Pile Up As Production Continues At Full Tilt
Boeing Co. will soon learn whether the financial fallout from the global grounding of its best-selling jetliner will be a brief jolt -- or a much more painful ordeal that would have repercussions for

Turkey’s Exit Would Disrupt F-35 Production for Two Years, Require Rebidding: JPO
WASHINGTON --- If Turkey were removed from the F-35 jet supply chain amid a dispute with the United States over its planned purchase of a Russian missile system, it would impact the production rate fo

German Ministers Push Back on NATO, Point to Increased Defense Spending
German ministers pushed back on criticism from the US over Berlin's defense budget. Despite emphasizing the importance of the military alliance, German lawmakers only narrowly passed a motion on stren

 


The Leopard 2A7V is the German Army version of the Leopard 2A7+ developed by KMW for the export market. The upgrade contract allows KMW seven years to refurbish and upgrade 101 older Leo 2s, at a unit cost of about € 3 million. (KMW photo)
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  • Boeing defends 'fundamental safety' of 737 MAX after crash report
  • 05/04/2019 00:24:56
  • NATO plans for Russian 'aggression' on 70th anniversary
  • 04/04/2019 20:32:49
  • Israeli spacecraft starts orbiting moon on maiden voyage
  • 04/04/2019 19:44:20
  • US military colleges must change to prevent sex assault: McSally
  • 04/04/2019 19:16:26
  • Turkey says US distorted meeting, but Pompeo stands by it
  • 04/04/2019 20:52:42
  • Taliban kill about 10 Afghan security forces: official
  • 04/04/2019 18:17:10
  • Boeing says will take 'any and all' needed safety steps after Ethiopia crash
  • 04/04/2019 17:20:57
  • A short first hop for 'drone taxi' in Vienna
  • 04/04/2019 16:25:08
  • Doomed EgyptAir Airbus 'should not have taken off', French report says
  • 04/04/2019 15:19:00
  • Ethiopian crew followed procedure but unable to control jet: inquiry
  • 04/04/2019 14:24:35
  • NATO seeks new ways to counter Russia 'aggression'
  • 04/04/2019 17:09:15
  • London court orders Djibouti to pay $385 mln to DP World
  • 04/04/2019 12:56:50


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    Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft Pile Up As Production Continues At Full Tilt
    Boeing Co. will soon learn whether the financial fallout from the global grounding of its best-selling jetliner will be a brief jolt -- or a much more painful ordeal that would have repercussions for ...

    Turkey’s Exit Would Disrupt F-35 Production for Two Years, Require Rebidding: JPO
    WASHINGTON --- If Turkey were removed from the F-35 jet supply chain amid a dispute with the United States over its planned purchase of a Russian missile system, it would impact the production rate fo...

    German Ministers Push Back on NATO, Point to Increased Defense Spending
    German ministers pushed back on criticism from the US over Berlin's defense budget. Despite emphasizing the importance of the military alliance, German lawmakers only narrowly passed a motion on stren...

    US, Turkey Intensify War of Words Over Syria, Russian Missiles
    A war of words between NATO allies the United States and Turkey intensified, with the sides disputing the readout of a meeting of the countries’ foreign ministers regarding Syria Washington and Ank...

    US Count Shows No Pakistan F-16s Shot Down By India
    NEW DELHI --- Pakistan’s F-16 combat jets have all been accounted for, U.S.-based Foreign Policy magazine said, citing U.S. officials, contradicting an Indian air force assessment that it had shot dow...

    US Considers Extending F-35 Jet Sales to Romania, Poland and Greece
    Reuters is reporting that the United States is considering expanding sales of Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jets to five new countries, including Romania, Poland, and Greece. The news agency re...

    Lockheed’s $31 Bn Marine Helicopter Running 19 Months Late
    Lockheed Martin Corp.’s $31 billion King Stallion helicopter program for the U.S. Marines may miss its first key milestone by more than 19 months because of a growing checklist of flaws discovered in ...

    Boeing Admits Faulty Sensor May Have Caused Fatal EA Crash
    Boeing admitted Thursday that a faulty sensor in its anti-stall system played a part in last month's deadly Ethiopian plane crash. Ethiopian investigators released their preliminary report into the...

    Boeing, Ethiopian Air Respond to Interim Accident Report
    A preliminary report on the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX airplane says pilots followed recommended emergency procedures but were unable to control the jet. Pilots of an Ethiopian A...

    NATO Ministers Agree to Enhance Security in Black Sea Region
    Meeting in Washington D.C. on Thursday (4 April 2019), NATO Foreign Ministers agreed a package of measures to improve NATO’s situational awareness in the Black Sea region and strengthen support for pa...

    Harris Corp. and L3 Tech Stockholders Approve Merger
    MELBOURNE, Fla. and NEW YORK --- Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies, Inc. announced that, at their respective special meetings of stockholders held today, Harris and L3 stockholders voted to appro...

    Germany Acts to Protect Naval Shipyards
    PARIS --- Surface shipbuilding should be recognized as a key defense technology, the Maritime Coordinator of the Federal Government, Norbert Brackmann, told German radio Deutschlandfunk on Thursday. ...

    Piaggio Risks Failure As Italy Cancels € 250M Drone Order
    PARIS --- Italian Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta announced yesterday that she has decided to cancel the planned € 250 million purchase of eight P.1HH drones produced by Piaggio Aerospace, Italy’s ...

    Soyuz Launches Four New Satellites for O3b Constellation
    Arianespace has orbited the final four latest satellites in the first phase of SES’s O3b constellation. The launch took place on Thursday, April 4, at 2:03 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Cen...

    KMW to Modernize 101 German Leopard 2 Tanks
    MUNICH / KOBLENZ, Germany --- Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has been awarded a contract to modernise 101 Leopard 2 A6 main battle tanks. The contract in question was signed on 28 March 2019 at the Germa...

    Slim Majority of Germans Support NATO, But Not 2% Spending Target
    A new survey has shown that a majority of Germans support the role of NATO, but not the alliance's defense spending target. A slim majority of Germans "do not support" Germany raising defense spen...

    Russia Ground Forces Postured Towards West
    Charles Dick examines the reform and modernization of Russia’s military and argues that the new force structure enables high readiness for short warning, possibly complex conflicts in former Soviet an...

    The Way Towards a European Defence Union
    Defence matters in a time of unsettling shifts in Europe’s security environment, and as new uncertainties challenge the liberal international order that has prevailed since the end of World War II. ...

    UK MoD Orders Shot Detection System for Ajax Armored Vehicle
    BRISTOL, England --- DE&S have signed a £3.7 million deal to equip the Army’s next generation armoured vehicle – Ajax – with the latest in automated threat warning systems. Thales UK has signed a c...

    Eurofighter Touts Six Key Enablers for Future Combat
    Former Eurofighter Typhoon pilot Raffael Klaschka, Head of Marketing at Eurofighter GmbH, takes an in-depth look at how Eurofighter is evolving to meet the demands of the Future Battlespace. We’r...

    Indra Space Surveillance Radar First to Detect India’s ASAT Shot
    MADRID --- The space surveillance radar S3TSR, designed and developed by Indra, and installed in the military base of Morón de la Frontera, in Seville, has become the first in Europe to detect the fra...

    US Army Enables Quick Prototyping of New Systems
    WASHINGTON --- The Army Futures Command is working with industry to enable "quick prototyping" of new systems that will modernize the force, Secretary of the Army Mark T. Esper told lawmakers Tuesday....

    Triumph Group to Support Boeing MQ-25 Unmanned Tanker
    BERWYN, Pa. --- Triumph Group has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company to supply critical hydraulic system components for the MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling program. "Triumph Group is pro...

    UK and Cyprus Agree to Closer Defence Ties
    Gavin Williamson and his Cypriot counterpart sign Memorandum of Understanding enhancing defence co-operation In a meeting today in London, Cypriot Defence Minister Savvas Angelides and Defence Secr...

    DOD Briefs Congress on WMD Threats and Response
    WASHINGTON --- The lethality of the U.S. military “depends on our warfighters’ ability to deter, prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from chemical, biological, radiological, or...

    Northrop Wins Order for E-2D Hawkeye Air Refueling Kits
    Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded $9,652,918 for modification P00002 to a firm-fixed-price delivery order (N0001918F2234) previously issued against basi...

    Rand Assessed the Conventional Force Imbalance in Europe
    This report outlines how NATO and Russian force levels and capabilities have evolved in the post–Cold War era and what recent trends imply for the balance of capabilities in the NATO member states tha...

    US Donates 37 MRAP Vehicles to Albania
    Minister Xhacka, General Kollcaku, General Mullai, members of the Albanian Armed Forces (AAF), and distinguished guests. Thank you for allowing me the privilege to be here with you today. It is an...

    China Sends New Destroyer Fleet to Somali Waters
    China's 32nd convoy fleet to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters set sail from a military port in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang Province on Thursday, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy official ...

    USS Zumwalt Arrives in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
    PEARL HARBOR --- The lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s newest class of guided-missile destroyers, USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), arrived in Pearl Harbor April 2. “USS Zumwalt possesses stealth, size, power and...

    US Concludes THAAD Deployment to Israel
    Yesterday (Sunday), the European Command of the United States Army (EUCOM) completed its first ever rapid deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense system in Israel...

    Georgia Receives Final Batch of Javelin Missiles
    Georgia has received all of the Javelin systems it ordered from the U.S., the Defense Minister of that country said. In a speech to Parliament on April 4, 2019, Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izor...

    Australia Reforms Defense Industry Security Rules
    Minister for Defence Industry, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, today announced major reforms to the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) to make it easier for industry to do business with Defe...

    Northrop Completes Second Ground Test of New Atlas V Rocket Motor
    DULLES, Va. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation conducted its second ground test of a 63-inch diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63) today in Promontory, Utah. The company developed this new side-mounted...

    Collins Unveils ‘Most Advanced’ Electric Power Systems Lab
    ROCKFORD, Ill. ---- At a ceremony today, Collins Aerospace Systems executives revealed plans for The Grid—the industry’s most advanced electric power systems lab. Collins Aerospace will use the high-p...

    Triumph Exploring Options for Aerospace Structures Unit
    BERWYN, Pa. --- Triumph Group, Inc. announced today that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its Aerospace Structures business unit as part of its continued portfolio reshaping, debt reduction ...

    Naval Group Creates the Naval Innovation Hub
    With the Naval Innovation Hub, Naval Group promotes disruptive innovation to adapt to the acceleration of innovation cycles and to the need for increased research responsiveness. Accelerate innovat...

    Patria Exhibits at Rotorcraft & Unmanned Systems Asia
    Patria attends Rotorcraft & Unmanned Systems Asia event in Singapore, held on 9-11th April 2019 in Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. The stand is H 17. Helicopter life-cycle support services ...


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    F-35 Dispute with US: The View from Ankara
    ANKARA --- Despite their longstanding strategic alliance as members of NATO, since 2017 Turkey and the U.S. have been at odds over Turkey's decision to buy the S-400, a Russian-made missile defense sy...


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