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US Confirms Air Strike Against Iranian General, Threatens More
At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-

Finland to Kick Off H-X Fighter Evaluations Next Week with Eurofighter
PARIS --- The Finnish Air Force will evaluate the five combat aircraft bidding for its €10 billion H-X fighter replacement contract during a series of week-long tests beginning next week and continuin

Lockheed Wins $1.9 Bn to Rework Already Delivered F-35 Aircraft
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $1,926,811,724 cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost reimbursable contract.

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US Confirms Air Strike Against Iranian General, Threatens More
At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-...

Finland to Kick Off H-X Fighter Evaluations Next Week with Eurofighter
PARIS --- The Finnish Air Force will evaluate the five combat aircraft bidding for its €10 billion H-X fighter replacement contract during a series of week-long tests beginning next week and continuin...

Lockheed Wins $1.9 Bn to Rework Already Delivered F-35 Aircraft
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $1,926,811,724 cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost reimbursable contract. ...

Germany Orders Enforcer Missiles from MBDA
MBDA has been awarded by the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) a contract for the acquisition of Enforcer missile systems for the G...

No Surprise: Airbus Overtakes Boeing as Biggest Plane Maker
Boeing has seen a sharp fall in deliveries as its bestselling MAX jets remain grounded following two fatal crashes. It's not the first time the US plane maker has lost the crown to its European rival....

China Flies Upgraded JF-17 Block III Fighter Jet
The latest, powered-up version of the JF-17 fighter jet reportedly features technologies from China's top-notch J-20 fighter jet and made its maiden flight in December, as the warplane co-developed by...

Most German Military Helicopters Not Available: Report
The readiness of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, has been the topic of heated debate amid reports of staff-shortages, problems with ammunition, weapons, and even aging jets – as well as under...

Losing Iraq and the Gulf: America’s Failed Strategy in the Middle East
It is all too tempting to focus on the current crisis in Iraq: The Iranian-sponsored attacks by Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces on U.S. forces and facilities, the U.S. retaliatory attacks, and the w...

China Weighs Russia-US Competition on Hypersonic Weapons
The Russian Defense Ministry recently announced the deployment of its first batch of Avangard hypersonic missiles to combat duty, while the speed of Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (Dagger) and 3M22 Zircon (Tsirkon) ...

Lockheed Wins $172M for F-35 Lot 15 Long-Lead Items
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a not-to-exceed $172,210,000 fixed-price-incentive-firm target, advance acquisition contract. This contract p...

Malaysian Navy Takes Delivery of First Littoral Mission Ship
A delivery ceremony for the first littoral mission ship the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group has built for the Royal Malaysian Navy is held in Qidong, East China's Jiangsu Province on December 31, ...

Lockheed Wins $99M to Integrate New DAS in F-35
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $98,948,397 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N00019-20-F-0377) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (...

BAE to Get Green Light for $10 Bn Howitzer
BAE Systems Plc will win U.S. Army approval this month for full-rate production of self-propelled howitzers and ammunition carriers based on improvements in the $10 billion program after several years...

Russian Air Force to Receive Modernized Su-34
The Russian defense industry is to modernize the Su-34 fighter-bomber. In an interview with RIA Novosti, the director of United Aircraft Corporation, Yuri Slyusar, said that the Russian state-owned...

US Report on World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers
The Department of State's Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance is pleased to announce its recent online posting of WMEAT 2019, the 37th edition of the State Department's World Military ...

IAI to Develop and Build Dror 1 Satellite for Israel
Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) will develop and build Israel’s national communication satellite, the “Dror 1”. The Dror 1 is intended to meet the satellite communication needs of Israel for the ne...

Lockheed Wins $82M for Selected F-35 Block 4 Capabilities
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded an $81,968,583 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019...

Sukhoi Delivers First 5 of 100 SSJ100 Jetliners to Aeroflot
As part of implementation of this agreement, the first five Superjet 100 aircraft have been delivered to VEB.RF for leasing to the Russian airline “Aeroflot”. The agreement for 100 SSJ100 aircraft was...

US Sealift Fleet In ‘Abysmal’ State of Readiness
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. Military’s massive transportation in September ordered the largest stress test of its wartime sealift fleet in the command’s history, with 33 out of 61 government-owned ships b...

Elbit Wins $144M Israeli Order for Small Caliber Ammo
HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded a contract by the Production and Procurement Directorate of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) valued at approximately $144...

US Declares 2nd Fleet Fully Operational in North Atlantic
NORFOLK, Virginia --- Seven months after reaching initial operational capability, U.S. 2nd Fleet achieved full operational capability Dec. 31. Since its reestablishment in August 2018, Vice Adm. An...

China’s Xi Signs Order for Improved Military Training
President Xi Jinping ordered the Chinese military on Thursday to further strengthen its combat training and exercises this year. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Ce...

Russian AF to Receive 100 Aircraft in 2020
In 2020, about 100 new and upgraded aircraft will be received by the Aerospace Forces. In 2019, the latest military transport aircraft Il-90md-90a, multi-purpose fighters Su-35c, Su-30cm, Su-34 bom...

Triumph Completes the Sale of its Nashville Operations
BERWYN, Pa. --- Triumph Group announced today that it has completed the sale of its Nashville based structures assembly operations to TECT Aerospace, as it continues to execute on its multi-year trans...

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Head of Finland’s H-X Fighter Program Details Fly-Offs
The Finnish Air Force will organise the HX Challenge testing and evaluation event from 9 January to 26 February 2020. The hub of the event will be Pirkkala Air Base. HX Fighter Programme candidates...