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March 23, 2020  

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Airbus Secures €15 Bn Credit Line, Cancels Dividend.
AMSTERDAM --- Airbus SE announces measures to bolster its liquidity and balance sheet in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it continues to assess the ongoing situation and the impact on its busines

Pentagon Tests Hypersonic Glide Body
PENTAGON, Virginia --- The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approx

Pentagon Protects Defense Industrial Base
"The Department continues to aggressively partner with the defense industry to mitigate impacts from COVID-19. Under Secretary of Defense Ellen Lord's Acquisition and Sustainment leaders in Industr

 


A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launched from Hawaii on March 19 flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point. The launch will inform MDA’s development of systems designed to defend against adversary hypersonic weapons. (USN photo)
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  • India to ground domestic passenger flights because of virus
  • 23/03/2020 12:15:58
  • Hong Kong bars non-residents, limits alcohol over virus
  • 23/03/2020 09:26:11
  • Asian markets sink as pandemic deaths soar
  • 23/03/2020 07:46:44
  • Airbus cancels 2019 dividend, 2020 forecasts due to coronavirus
  • 23/03/2020 07:12:54


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    Airbus Secures €15 Bn Credit Line, Cancels Dividend.
    AMSTERDAM --- Airbus SE announces measures to bolster its liquidity and balance sheet in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it continues to assess the ongoing situation and the impact on its busines...

    Pentagon Tests Hypersonic Glide Body
    PENTAGON, Virginia --- The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approx...

    Pentagon Protects Defense Industrial Base
    "The Department continues to aggressively partner with the defense industry to mitigate impacts from COVID-19. Under Secretary of Defense Ellen Lord's Acquisition and Sustainment leaders in Industr...

    Raytheon Wins $392M for AIM-9X Production
    Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $392,412,665 modification (P00009) to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract (N00019-18-C-1068). This modification exerci...

    UK Audit Office Blasts MoD for Rushing Problem-Ridden F-35 Into Service
    A new report by the UK National Audit Office (NAO) severely criticizes the Ministry of Defence for pushing the F-35 through its 2018 initial operating capability (IOC) certification despite dozens of ...

    KAI to Lease Up to Eight T-50A Trainer Jets to US
    South Korean aircraft manufacturer KAI said Monday that the US Air Force is planning to rent a small number of KAI’s advanced T-50A trainer jets until new trainer jets arrive from Boeing, the winner o...

    N. Korea Fires 2 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles Toward East Sea
    North Korea on Saturday fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, the latest in a series of such launches...

    China Says FTC-2000G Export Fighter Makes Key Progress
    BEIJING --- According to domestic news reports, recently, Guizhou Aviation Industry Corporation (GAIC) under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) recently launched a massive internal camp...

    Maiden Flight of FOC Standard LCA Tejas
    BENGALURU, India --- The first Light Combat Aircraft in FOC standard (SP-21) took to the skies for maiden flight here today. Piloted by Air Cmde. K.A Muthana (Retd), Chief Test Flying (Fixed Wing), t...

    Arianespace Orbits 34 More Satellites for OneWeb
    For the second time this year, Arianespace has sent 34 satellites on their way to join OneWeb’s constellation with a Soyuz mission originating from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cluster of...

    Lockheed Wins $99M to Support LCS Combat System
    Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $98,674,505 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price and cost contract for sustainment of the Lit...

    Airbus to Partially Resume Production In France and Spain
    TOULOUSE, France --- Airbus SE announces that it expects production and assembly work to partially resume in France and Spain on Monday, 23 March following health and safety checks after the implement...

    First Marine Corps F-35C Squadron Wins Certification
    MIRAMAR, CA. --- Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 celebrated the results of over five months of F-35C Lightning II transition training when they received their Safe-For-Flight Operations Cert...

    Russian MiG-31BM Crews Train for In-Flight Refueling
    Pilots of a separate mixed aviation regiment from the army of the air force and air defense of the Northern Fleet during the events of planned combat training worked out refueling in the air from the ...

    USS Ford Achieves 1000th Aircraft Arrestment, Launch
    ATLANTIC OCEAN --- An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to "Blue Blasters" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34, landed aboard USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) flight deck marking the 1,000th recovery of a f...

    First Ever: Dutch F-35s Escort B-2s Over North Sea
    RAF Fairford, UK --- Two U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber aircraft from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, and the 131st Bomb Wing, Missouri Air National Guard, operating ...

    Coronavirus Fails to Stop Exercise Defender Europe
    In the U.S. European Command area of responsibility, where approximately 35 cases of COVID-19 have been reported among the 72,000 service members assigned there, some participation in Exercise Defende...

    Combined Arms Battalion Becomes Basic Combat Unit of PLA
    The powerful combined arms battalion, each one including almost all types of basic military arms and professions, has now become a basic combat unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), enab...

    US Navy Failing to Reach 355-Ship Goal, Plans New Blueprint
    In December 2016, the Navy released a force-structure goal that calls for achieving and maintaining a fleet of 355 ships of certain types and numbers. The 355-ship goal was made U.S. policy by Section...

    Israeli Air Force Maintains Capability Despite Virus
    Businesses, coffee shops, and restaurants throughout Israel are closed indefinitely, its streets slowly empty. However, the IAF continues to operate in all its bases and units while following guidelin...

    Australia, Singapore Expand Military Training Treaty
    Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen and Australian Minister for Defence Linda Reynolds signed a Treaty on Military Training and Training Area Development in Australia earlier today at the Ministry of F...

    Australia Redeploys Troops in Mid-East Due to Virus
    The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is temporarily relocating non-essential personnel from Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of COVID-19. Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC said...

    Boeing Suspends Dividend, Share Repurchasing to Cope with Virus
    CHICAGO --- The Boeing Company today announced several decisions to support the company as it navigates through the COVID-19 pandemic while ensuring the company is positioned for the industry's recove...

    Message on Coronavirus from BAE Chief Executive
    We are operating at a time of unprecedented disruption and change around the world as governments in all of our markets continue to tackle public health emergencies due to the ongoing Covid-19 outbrea...

    DARPA Demonstrates “Competition” Tool at Combatant Command
    Service members at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii recently tested a prototype DARPA system designed to help military analysts and planners determine if observed events – such as incr...


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