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Bundestag Approves €5.4Bn Budget for 38 Tranche 4 Eurofighters
The Bundeswehr is to receive 38 new Eurofighter type fighter jets: The budget committee of the German Bundestag has now released 5.5 billion euros for this at its meeting on November 5th. In additi

Pentagon Awards $9.5Bn Contract for Columbia-class Submarines
WASHINGTON --- The US Navy is awarding a $9.5 billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) Corporation to construct and test the lead and second ships of the Columbia Class, SSBN 826 and

US Advances $2.9 Bn Reaper Drone Sale to UAE: Sources
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. State Department gave Congress notification it plans to sell 18 sophisticated armed MQ-9B aerial drones to the United Arab Emirates in a deal worth as much as $2.9 billion, peo

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Bundestag Approves €5.4Bn Budget for 38 Tranche 4 Eurofighters
The Bundeswehr is to receive 38 new Eurofighter type fighter jets: The budget committee of the German Bundestag has now released 5.5 billion euros for this at its meeting on November 5th. In additi...

Pentagon Awards $9.5Bn Contract for Columbia-class Submarines
WASHINGTON --- The US Navy is awarding a $9.5 billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) Corporation to construct and test the lead and second ships of the Columbia Class, SSBN 826 and ...

US Advances $2.9 Bn Reaper Drone Sale to UAE: Sources
WASHINGTON --- The U.S. State Department gave Congress notification it plans to sell 18 sophisticated armed MQ-9B aerial drones to the United Arab Emirates in a deal worth as much as $2.9 billion, peo...

EU Approves Third-Country Participation in PESCO Projects
As of today, [third-party] states can participate in defense projects of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) of the European Union. The compromise proposed by German was accepted on October 2...

BAE Submits Proposal to Japan’s F-X Fighter Programme
BAE Systems has responded to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Japanese Ministry of Defence (JMOD), proposing a package of integration support to Japan’s F-X next generation fighter development...

Britain’s Serious Fraud Office Investigating Bombardier
The SFO confirms it is investigating Bombardier Inc over suspected bribery and corruption in relation to contracts and / or orders from Garuda Indonesia. As this is a live investigation, the SFO ca...

Israeli Navy Unveils Its Latest Warship, the Saar 6 Corvette
Last week, the flag on the "Magen" ship (the "Shield" ship in English) was changed from a German flag to an Israeli flag. Within the coming year, three more Sa’ar 6 ships will be transferred to Israel...

US Approves $500M Sale of SM-2 Block IIIC Missiles to Canada
WASHINGTON --- The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Canada of Standard Missile 2 (SM-2) Block IIIC missiles and related equipme...

Carrier Group Deployment May Leave Royal Navy 'Short-Handed'
The 64,000-tonne aircraft carrier will be setting sail from her home in Portsmouth in early 2021, accompanied by a pair of Type 45 destroyers, two frigates, support vessels and potentially a hunter-ki...

French Air Force Unveils H160M Cheetah Light Helicopter
On Thursday, October 29, 2020, Brig. Gen. Olivier Fabre, commander of the Air Support and Projection Brigade (BAAP) of the Air Forces Command (CFA), visited Air Base 107 at Villacoublay to discover th...

PLA’s New Type 075 Amphib Prepares for More Sea Trials
The Chinese mainland's first Type 075 amphibious assault ship was recently spotted on the doorstep of the South China Sea, close to the island of Taiwan, Taiwan media reported, leading Chinese mainlan...

Norway Sues DNV Certification Office over Sunken Frigate
In one of the most painful peacetime losses in the history of the Norwegian Armed Forces, the frigate Helge Ingstad collided with the tanker Sola TS in November 2018 while heading back from Trident Ju...

GAO Reports on US Navy's Failed Hybrid Electric Drive Program
In 2009, the Secretary of the Navy set goals to reduce fuel consumption and, 2 years later, initiated a program to install Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) systems on its fleet of Arleigh Burke class (DDG ...

DOD Needs to Further Refine and Formalize Its Reforms
The Department of Defense (DOD) has made progress in establishing valid and reliable cost baselines for its enterprise business operations and has additional efforts ongoing. DOD's January 2020 re...

Royal Air Force Concludes its Largest Exercise in a Decade
The largest military exercise to be run by the Royal Air Force in the UK for many years has finished after three weeks of complex air activities. The Exercise, called Exercise Crimson Warrior, invo...

USAF Completes Hearings for First B-21 Main Operating Base
BARKSDALE AFB, La. --- The Air Force concluded the final of four virtual public hearings Oct. 22 as part of the on-going Environmental Impact Statement for the first B-21 Main Operating Base. The ...

European Defense Research Project Kicks Off
BRUSSELS --- The implementation of EXCEED, the last of the three defence research projects selected under the 2018 call for proposals for the EU Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR), was offi...

ABC, FN Herstal Selected for Belgian-Dutch Minehunting Program
BRUSSELS --- ABC and FN Herstal have been selected as strategic suppliers for the mine counter measures vessels built by Kership Shipyard for Naval Group to the benefit of the Belgian and Royal Nether...

Patria to Start Vehicles’ Parts Manufacturing in Latvia
Patria and SIA EMJ Metāls have signed an agreement for vehicle parts manufacturing in Latvia. The agreement is related to the research and development (R&D) agreement for a common armoured vehicle sys...

USAF to Upgrade Supersonic Rain Erosion Test Rig
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio --- The Supersonic Rain Erosion Test Rig (SuRE) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is experiencing a full control system replacement and upgrade to provide pinpoint control ...

BAE Invests $100M in New Aerospace and Defense Plant in US
BAE Systems is investing more than $100 million to build a state-of-the-art facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The facility will support the company’s newly acquired Navigation & Sensor Systems business,...

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