| Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Thales Wins €1.5Bn to Provide Combat System for German MKS180 Frigates
HENGELO, Netherlands --- Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding and Thales signed on November 17, 2020, the contract for the delivery and full integration of Thales’s Mission and Combat System for the four ... Boeing 737 Max Cleared to Fly as FAA Lifts 20-Month US Grounding
Boeing Co.’s 737 Max can safely return to the skies with an extensive package of fixes, U.S. regulators ruled, after a scarring 20-month hiatus prompted by a pair of fatal crashes. The actions anno... Hungary Orders Two Embraer KC-390 Tanker-Transports
BUDAPEST --- On Tuesday, November 17, Colonel-General Ferenc Korom, Commander of the Hungarian Armed Forces, and Jackson Medeiros de Farias Schneider, President of the Brazilian Embraer Defense and Se... Taiwan Grounds Entire F-16 Fleet After Second Accident in a Month
TAIPEI --- Taiwan’s air force has grounded its F-16 fleet after losing a plane on a training mission, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday, the second loss of a fighter jet in less than a month at... Pentagon Details ICBM Intercept Test
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn (DDG-113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer, intercepted and destroyed a threat-... German Defense Minister: Europe Still Depends on US for Its Security
Germany and Europe "cannot protect themselves" without the US, said German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Her latest remarks follow criticism from French President Emmanuel Macron. Ge... US to Reduce Troop Levels in Afghanistan, Iraq by January
The United States will draw down forces in Afghanistan and Iraq by Jan. 15, 2021, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller said today at the Pentagon. Miller announced the drawdown of troops ... Turkish Parliament Approves Deployment of Troops in Azerbaijan
ANKARA --- The Turkish Parliament Tuesday passed a motion to allow the deployment of Turkish troops in Azerbaijan for monitoring a cease-fire agreement over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The motion ... South Korea to Spend Over $72Bn to Support Defense Industry
Over 80 percent of South Korea's 100 trillion won (US$90 billion) budget set aside for boosting defense capabilities over the next five years will be spent on buying locally made weapons and hardware,... India Announces Second Successful Flight Test of QRSAM System
In yet another flight test, the Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) System tracked the target accurately and successfully neutralised the airborne target. The flight test, second in the seri... Canadian Navy Defends Joint Support Ship Project After Critical Report
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) today released an independent cost estimate of the Royal Canadian Navy’s project to build two Joint Support Ship (JSS) vessels, and an estimate of the cost of co... Arianespace Identifies Source of Vega Launch Failure
Arianespace has announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, which was carrying two payloads: SEOSAT-Ingenio, an earth-science observation satellite for the European Spatial Agency (ESA); and TARANIS ... Boeing Delivers Ninth P-8I Patrol Aircraft to India
NEW DELHI, India --- Boeing is continuing to expand the Indian Navy’s long-range maritime reconnaissance anti-submarine warfare capabilities with today’s delivery of the country’s ninth P-8I. The patr... US Army to Release New Solicitation for OMFV Next Month
DETROIT --- The Army plans to publish a new solicitation for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle next month, as it prepares to take the next step in delivering a new, advanced technology armored ve... Norway Boosts Far North Defenses with Two New Air Bases
The Ministry of Local Government and Modernization has today adopted a state zoning plan for Evenes Airport and Harstad / Narvik Airport. The purpose of the plan is to facilitate the Armed Forces' inc... Kongsberg to Supply Propellers for Five Spanish F110 Frigates
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract worth NOK 200 million with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to supply propeller systems for five F110 frigates, currently in construction for the Spanish Navy. Th... DoD Awards Rare Earth Contracts to Strengthen Industrial Base
As part of the U.S. government’s strategy to ensure secure and reliable supplies of critical minerals under Executive Order 13817, today the Department of Defense is announcing contracts and agreement... Royal Navy Warship Sails into Arctic Circle for High North Operation
HMS Lancaster has completed three days of operations in the High North, marking the second time the Royal Navy has sailed into the Arctic Circle in two months. Once again demonstrating the UK’s com... Nimitz Strike Group in Malabar Exercise with Australia, India and Japan
NORTHERN ARABIAN SEA --- Sailors and Marines assigned to Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, joined Australian, Indian, Japanese maritime forces for Phase II of Malabar 2020 in the Northern Arabian Sea, Nov.... China Switches Civil Factories to Military Production in Mobilization Test
A city in China recently held a military-civilian mobilization exercise, during which civilian firms temporarily shifted production to make combat vehicles and modified trailers to transport tanks. Th... Norway Plugs into Global F135 Engine MRO Network
Norway-based Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services (KAMS) has officially opened its F135 engine maintenance depot in Rygge, after signing a contract with Pratt & Whitney. The depot is now in the ... Northrop Supports US Missile Defense Agency Flight Test
CHANDLER, Ariz. --- The Missile Defense Agency successfully intercepted a Northrop Grumman Corporation built Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target that was launched during a flight test fro... Russian Cosmodrome Works Up for New Angara Space Launcher
During a working trip to the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu noted that from 2025 the cosmodrome will be able to perform up to ... Leonardo and Lacroix to Cooperate on Naval Countermeasures
ROME --- Leonardo and Lacroix have signed a strategic agreement which will see the partners working together to develop and integrate solutions in the naval countermeasures sector. The collaboration, ... Raytheon Awarded Phase 2 Contract Under DARPA’s ACK Program
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --- Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been awarded a $4 million Phase 2 contract under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Adapting Cross... BAE Wins Certification for F-22’s IFF Transponder
BAE Systems has received certification for its Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF) transponder for the F-22 Raptor from the Department of Defense AIMS program office. The IFF transponder waveform integ... GE Marks 25 Years of Service of GE90 Engine
CINCINNATI --– GE Aviation’s GE90 engine celebrates 25 years of service today, and GE expects the technological pioneer engine to continue powering aircraft for decades to come. On November 17, 199... Singapore’s ST Engineering Announces Major Reorganization
SINGAPORE --- ST Engineering today announced organisational changes that will position the Group for its next phase of growth, and propel it towards its aspiration to become a global technology, defen... | 
