| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Boeing Wins $12 Bn Financing to Help Weather 737 Max Crisis
Boeing has secured commitments of more than $12 billion in financing from more than a dozen banks as the industrial giant shores up its balance sheet amid the nearly yearlong grounding of the 737 Max ... Germany Drops Plan to Buy Triton UAV for $2.5Bn, Will Buy Manned Aircraft Instead
COLOGNE, Germany --- The German government has canceled plans to buy Northrop Grumman-made Triton drones to the tune of $2.5 billion, opting instead for manned planes carrying eavesdropping sensors. ... Polish MoD Will Sign $4.6Bn Deal for 32 F-35 Fighters on Friday
Polish Minister of Defense Mariusz Błaszczak has announced that the F-35A procurement agreement would be signed on Friday, January 31, in Dęblin, and confirmed that Poland would buy 32 of these fighte... Airbus Confirms Agreement in Principle to Settle Corruption Probes
AMSTERDAM --- Airbus confirms that it has reached agreement in principle with the French Parquet National Financier, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office and the U.S. authorities. These agreements are mad... German Naval Yards Sue to Reverse MKS 180 Frigate Decision
The Kiel shipyard GERMAN NAVAL YARDS (GNYK) has challenged the decision of the Federal Ministry of Defence to award the MKS 180 multi-purpose combat ship to Damen. As announced by the company's ma... US Air Force E-11 Crashes in Afghanistan
An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27, the U.S. military and the NATO-led force in the country said, adding that there were no indications so far it had been broug... US, France Continue to Strengthen Defense Relationship
Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper welcomed France's Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly to the Pentagon to discuss issues of mutual interest between their nations. After their meeting, the secre... Pratt Wins Deal to Power 166 Wizz Air Airbus A320neo Jets
EAST HARTFORD --- Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp., and Wizz Air Hungary Ltd. announced the selection of the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine to power an order of 166 Airbus A320neo ... Brazil Approves Boeing-Embraer Strategic Partnership
CHICAGO --- Boeing and Embraer welcome the unconditional approval of their strategic partnership by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)'s General-Superintendence (SG) in Brazil. ... Portugal to Sell Five More F-16s to Romania in €130M Deal
The five F-16 fighter jets that Portugal will sell to Romania, in a deal officialized Monday, will be modernized and updated at the Monte Real Air Base, according to a source from the Ministry of Defe... US Plans to Create CH-47 Fleet for Afghanistan
The U.S. will transfer CH-47 Chinook helicopters to Afghanistan as part of an effort to modernize the Afghan military. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Defense to the U.S. Congress revea... Russia Signs First Export Contract for Mi-38T Helicopter
Rosoboronexport JSC (part of the Rostec State Corporation) signed the first foreign trade contract for the supply to a foreign customer of the Mi-38T medium-range multi-purpose helicopters manufacture... Northrop Wins Hypersonic Missile Defense Contract
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $13 million contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Glide Breaker program. The contract provides for the research, development,... Airbus, Spanish Air Force Test C-295 Tanker Variant
The Spanish Air Force’s Ala 35 (35th Air Wing), based in Getafe (Madrid), and the Airbus company have worked together over the past few weeks to continue testing the in-flight refueling version of the... Chief of Staff Says USAF Making ‘Significant Strides’ in Space, Data
WASHINGTON --- Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein said during a Jan. 27 appearance at the Center for a New American Security that the service is making significant strides in harnessing a... Merlin Helicopters Embark on HMS Queen Elisabeth
The front-line Fleet Air Arm helicopter pilots, weapons experts and engineers of tomorrow are spending a month aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in the North Sea to get used to living, working and flying at ... Iran Preparing for Satellite Launch Opposed by US
Satellite images suggest Iran is preparing to launch a satellite into space after three failed rocket launches last year, reports say, as part of a program viewed by the United States as a cover for b... First Type 26 Frigate More Than Half Built
This is HMS Glasgow – the first of the Royal Navy’s next-generation frigate flotilla – more than half-way through construction. Or rather this is part of the forward section of the ship – the fore ... Canada Buys New Machine Guns from Colt Canada
OTTAWA --- The Government of Canada’s commitment to equipping the members of the Canadian Armed Forces continues, with the purchase of 3,626 new C6A1 FLEX General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) from Colt... Triton Arrives in Pacific Region for First Deployment
SAN DIEGO --- Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system deployed for the first time Jan. 26, to provide military commanders in the Pacific greater maritime intelligence, sur... Russian A2/AD Not Overrated, Just Poorly Understood
There were several articles in 2019 attempting to address the Russian anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) problem set, in my view an unfortunate term that got transported from the China watcher community ... Lockheed, PGZ Team for Polish Air Force MRO Needs
Lockheed Martin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), Polish national defence industry leader and main partner of Polish Armed Forces modernization progra... Airbus Wins Five Major Cyber-Surveillance Contracts In France
PARIS --- In 2019, Airbus CyberSecurity won five new contracts with major groups or organisations in the industrial, finance and institutional sectors, some of which are operators of essential service... India Talks Up DefExpo Show, Over 1,000 Exhibitors
The number of companies registered for participating in the 11thedition of the biennial mega defence exhibition, DefExpo 2020, to be held at Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow between February 5-9, 2020; h... | 
