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There are reports of panic buying of iodine drops in Severodvinsk. Emergency officials reported a spike in background radiation. The White Sea bay where both the shipbuilding port and the regional cap... Latest Press Releases US Tells Germany: Spend More on Defense or We Move Troops to Poland
BERLIN --- An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwillingness to boost defense spending might give the United States no choice but to move Americ... Australia Boosts Spending on Special Forces by A$3 Bn, Clears Initial A$500M
Australia’s Special Forces will be better equipped to keep Australians safe thanks to a $3 billion investment in cutting edge equipment under the Coalition Government. The Government has approved t... MBDA, Rheinmetall to Demo High-Energy Laser Weapon for German Navy
Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland have agreed to collaborate in the high-energy laser effectors domain. The two companies intend to construct, integrate and test a laser demonstrator for the German Nav... Russia Says New Weapon Blew Up Near Arkhangelsk Last Week
The failed missile test that ended in an explosion killing five atomic scientists last week on Russia’s White Sea involved a small nuclear power source, according to a top official at the institute wh... USAF Grounds Lockheed C-130s Over Wing Cracks
SCOTT AFB, Illinois --- Gen. Maryanne Miller, Air Mobility Command commander, ordered the temporary removal of 123 of 450 Total Force C-130 Hercules from service on Aug. 7, after atypical cracks were ... Japan Says F-35A Crash Caused by Human Error
TOKYO --- The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force concluded Friday that the crash in April of an F-35A stealth fighter into the Pacific Ocean was caused by the pilot experiencing "spatial disorientation" ... Next-Gen Air Dominance Doesn't Mean New Aircraft: USAF
ARLINGTON, VA. --- For about two decades, the Air Force has fielded both the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Lightning II — both billed as technical marvels. But what's next for the Air Force? Developing ... USS Ford’s Nuclear Propulsion Fixed - Two Years After Delivery
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. --- Sailors assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) Reactor Department and Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) technicians recently completed a produc... Swiss to Begin Air2030 Radar Evaluations on Aug. 19
BERN --- At an Aug. 07 press conference in Bern, [Ministry of Defence] specialists shared the test progress of the radar sensors for a new long-range ground-to-air defense system. The press conference... US Air Force Chief Says It Has Stemmed Pilot Crisis
The Air Force believes it has contained an emergency threatening its core mission, despite persistent estimates it doesn't have enough pilots at a time it's facing off against new threats from China a... US Approves $800M Sale of MH-60R Helos to South Korea
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Republic of Korea of MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopters with support for an estimated cost ... EU Defence Ministers to Discuss Defence Cooperation Aug. 28-29
EU defence ministers will discuss new technologies and the changing world during the informal meeting of ministers of defence on 28 and 29 August. The topics of discussion include for example artifici... US Completes Upgrade of Aegis Ashore in Romania
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the inaugural ceremony of Aegis Ashore, Deveselu Base (Romania), May 2016 This update, which has been taking place across the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defe... China Hints at ‘Loyal Wingman’ Drone Development
With both the US and Russia announcing in the past week new progress in the development of drones that could accompany manned fighter jets in combat, Chinese experts said on Sunday that such wingman-s... GAO Queries Credibility of FFG(X) Cost Estimates
The Navy undertook a conceptual design phase for the FFG(X) Guided Missile Frigate program that enabled industry to inform FFG(X) requirements, identify opportunities for cost savings, and mature diff... Forecast Issues New Global Outlook for Helicopters
NEWTOWN, Conn. --- Forecast International recently released its latest white paper, The World Rotorcraft Market 2019-2028. With an eye toward the future, product innovation is the order of the day ... Scramjet Demonstrator Reaches Mach 4 in AFRL Ground Test
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio --- An Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center ground test team set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in Air For... Italian Aircraft Carrier Enters Drydock for F-35Bs Refit
On July 20, the Aircraft Carrier ‘Cavour’ entered the Edgardo Ferrati drydock at the Italian Navy Arsenal at Taranto. The entry of the aircraft carrier into one of the largest military masonry dockyar... NATO Fighters Intercept Russian Aircraft in Alaska, Baltic
The Typhoon fighter jets demonstrated the sizable scope of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) contribution to European security after scrambling from two locations in two separate incidents on the same d... Global Hawk UAV Redeploys from Guam to Japan
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan --- Pacific Air Forces deployed a squadron of RQ-4 Global Hawks, from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam to Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aug. 5, 2019. The rotational deployment of the ... Airbus Announces Orders & Deliveries for July 2019
Airbus logged orders for 33 commercial jetliners in July – paced by the wide-body A350 XWB and A330neo, while making 69 deliveries during the month from across its product line of A220, A320 Family, A... ULS Wins $156M for National Security Space Launch
United Launch Services, Centennial, Colorado, has been awarded a $156,752,771 firm-fixed-price modification (P00003) to previously awarded contract FA8811-19-C-0002 for National Security Space Launch ... Kratos Wins Two Contracts for ‘Wingman’ Drones
SAN DIEGO --- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced today that its Unmanned Systems Division has received a $23 million award for a production run of one of its high-performance jet dron... Second Italian-Built F-35B Fighter Flies to USA
On June 13, at 12.13 p.m., the Italian Navy’s second F-35B aircraft (registration 4-02) took off from the F-35 Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility at Cameri (Province of Novara) on its way to... CBO: Pentagon Costs Set to Rise by $88 Bn/Year After 2024
In most years, the Department of Defense (DoD) produces a five-year plan, called the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), that is associated with the budget it submits to the Congress. This report des... Families of Dutch F-16 Pilots Harassed by ‘Russians’ in 2017
The partners of Dutch fighter pilots who were active in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania in 2017, were harassed at home during this period. They received repeated, unpleasant phone calls from people with... USAF Needs New Aircraft, Basing Ideas to Win in Pacific: Report
A prominent Pentagon-funded research organization argues that the Air Force needs to rethink its procurement plans and spread its forces across more bases by 2030 to be a formidable opponent in the Pa... Marine Corps F-35Bs Conduct Live Fire Exercise in Solomon Sea
USS WASP, AT SEA --- F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (REIN), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, used the GAU-22 cannon against a simulated target and execute... RAF Adopts Sceptre Mission Planner for Typhoon Fleet
A revolutionary new system will allow Royal Air Force planners to integrate real and virtual technologies to direct its future Typhoon frontline fleet. The system, Sceptre, draws on huge amounts of... BAE Wins $369M for Radar Components and Subsystems
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., Rockville, Maryland, has been awarded a $369,000,000 ceiling increase modification (P00013) to previously awarded contract FA2521-16-D-0010 for servic... Lockheed Wins $176M for Aegis Radar Parts
Lockheed Martin Corp., Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $176,339,634 firm-fixed-priced, performance-based logistics contract for the repair of 1,672 different head-of-family part numbers in suppor... Pentagon Awards $374M Contracts for Afghan Heli Transport
-- Columbia Helicopters Inc. Aurora, Oregon, has been awarded an option year modification to contract HTC711-17-D-R018 in the estimated amount of $224,394,412. This modification, P00008, provides r... Lockheed Wins $240M for BMD Modeling and Simulation
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. --- The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $240 million contract to support the modeling and simulation framework for the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). ... Elbit Wins $80M to Upgrade Tanks for SE Asia Nation
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded a contract valued at approximately $80 million to upgrade tanks and supply radio systems for an Army of a country in South East... | 