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US Approves $1.5Bn Warship Upgrade Package for Australian Navy
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of long lead items, engineering development activities, and other defense services

BAE Invests $2.2Bn to Expand US Operations
BAE Systems plc announces that it has entered into a definitive Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire Collins Aerospace’s Military Global Positioning System business (“GPS business”) for $1.925bn in cas

Rafales Arrive in Finland for Week-Long Evaluation
Two Rafale fighter jets built by French manufacturer Dassault have landed at Pirkkala Air Force Base to start [ten days] of intensive testing and evaluation. They’re the second of five aircraft typ

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US Approves $1.5Bn Warship Upgrade Package for Australian Navy
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Australia of long lead items, engineering development activities, and other defense services ...

BAE Invests $2.2Bn to Expand US Operations
BAE Systems plc announces that it has entered into a definitive Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire Collins Aerospace’s Military Global Positioning System business (“GPS business”) for $1.925bn in cas...

Rafales Arrive in Finland for Week-Long Evaluation
Two Rafale fighter jets built by French manufacturer Dassault have landed at Pirkkala Air Force Base to start [ten days] of intensive testing and evaluation. They’re the second of five aircraft typ...

Saab Begins Production of US Air Force T-7A Trainer
Saab started assembly production on January 10, 2020 of its section of the T-7A aircraft, the advanced trainer developed and produced together with Boeing for the United States Air Force. Saab is r...

Iran Confirms Two Missiles Fired at Ukraine Airliner
Iran has released the first results of its investigation into the downing of a Ukraine International Airlines flight. All of the 176 passengers and crew on the flight were killed in the incident. T...

US Pressured Dutch Safety Board to Downplay Boeing 737 Tech Faults
While investigating the Turkish Airlines plane crash near Schiphol in 2009, the Dutch Safety Board was pressured by Americans to downplay the role design errors in the Boeing 737 NG played in the cras...

S. Korean Anti-Piracy Unit to Deploy to Hormuz
South Korea will dispatch its anti-piracy Cheonghae Unit to the Strait of Hormuz to operate separately from a U.S.-led military coalition there. The Defense Ministry announced the move Tuesday. ...

Poland Increases Defence Spending by Over 11% in 2020
According to the Polish budgetary agreement, the 2020 defence expenditure limit would be defined as almost 49.997 billion zlotys, the Polish Ministry of Defense reported during the meeting of the Parl...

IT Problems Delay AEW Helicopter for New British Carriers
The Royal Navy's billion-pound aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales could be left vulnerable to attack due to problems with their cutting-edge radar system. Crowsnest, the most...

India Stands Up First Su-30MKI Squadron with BrahMos Missiles
The Indian Air Force has inducted its first squadron of Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft carrying the BrahMos missiles in the South at its Thanjavur base in Tamil Nadu today. The Chief of Defence Staff Gene...

New A321 Production Line Replace A380 at Airbus Toulouse
TOULOUSE, France --- Following its strategy to keep its overall production system at the leading edge of technology and to increase industrial capacity and flexibility, Airbus has decided to create ne...

Indian Carrier to Begin Sea Trials in Mid-2020
The progress of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-P71) project was reviewed by the Empowered Apex Committee (EAC) headed by Shri Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary, on 20 Jan 20 at Cochin Shipyard Limited. ...

China Flies Three Main Fighter Aircraft in Formation
China's most advanced J-20 stealth fighter jets assigned to an ace unit have been conducting real-combat scenario training together with powerful J-16 and agile J-10C jets, the People's Liberation Arm...

Royal Navy Trains Oman Navy for Helicopter Operations
Royal Navy sailors have been sharing their world-class skills with the UK’s allies in the Middle East, teaching them how to manage busy flight decks at sea. Aircraft handlers from Royal Naval Air S...

Royal Navy OPV Sails for Caribbean
The crew of offshore patrol vessel HMS Medway have today set sail to take on one of the Royal Navy’s significant standing commitments. They are being forward-deployed to Atlantic Patrol Tasking (No...

Australian Navy Opens New Warfighting Agency
The Royal Australian Navy has opened a centralised warfighting agency, designed to enhance Navy’s lethality in times of conflict. The Maritime Warfare Centre merges the Royal Australian Navy Test a...

Russian Corvette Completes Series of Sea Tests
The crew of the lead Corvette project 20385 "Gremyaschiy", which is undergoing state sea tests in the Northern Fleet, began preparing for the inter-fleet transition. In the near future, it will go to ...

Russia Modernising Engineer Units in Eastern MD
The share of providing engineering troops of the Eastern Military District with modern equipment, weapons and equipment has reached 70%. The main differences of the past year were the large-scale test...

US Navy Names Third Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
WASHINGTON --- Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly named a future aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller (CVN 81) during a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day ceremony honoring African Americans of the Gr...

Hawkeye 360 and Airbus Form Strategic Partnership
HERNDON, Va. --- HawkEye 360 Inc., the first commercial company to use formation flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, has formed a strategic partnership ...

Aero Vodochody Says Will Double Its Revenues This Year
Revenues of the biggest Czech aircraft manufacturer, AERO Vodochody Aerospace, will almost double up to 5-6 bn CZK (200-240 mEUR) this year in comparison to 2019. Such growth of Aero’s revenues will b...

RUAG and Airbus Agree Long-Term Cooperation
RUAG Aerostructures and Airbus confirm plans for further successful cooperation. Over the coming six years, RUAG will manufacture and supply fuselage structures, flooring and side shells for the Airbu...

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