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Bundestag Approves €2.3 Bn to Buy 31 Sea Tiger Shipborne ASW Helos
BERLIN --- The German parliament’s budget committee on Thursday approved a €2.3 billion ($2.7 billion) contract to buy 31 NH90 helicopters for the German Navy, Reuters reported citing a parliamentary

Industry, Occar Agree Terms for European MALE UAV, Contract Due Early 2021
After several months of intensive negotiations between Airbus Defence and Space and OCCAR, the European Medium Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (MALE RPAS) Programme has taken

France Orders 12 Falcon 2000 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
SAINT-CLOUD, France --- During a visit to the Dassault Aviation plant in Seclin, in northern France, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, today announced the upcoming notification

A Closer Look at UK’s $$Bn Defense Spending Boost
In what may reasonably be described as a surprise, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a major investment package for the Ministry of Defence – marking the largest such spending boost s...

Bundestag Approves €2.3 Bn to Buy 31 Sea Tiger Shipborne ASW Helos
BERLIN --- The German parliament’s budget committee on Thursday approved a €2.3 billion ($2.7 billion) contract to buy 31 NH90 helicopters for the German Navy, Reuters reported citing a parliamentary ...

Industry, Occar Agree Terms for European MALE UAV, Contract Due Early 2021
After several months of intensive negotiations between Airbus Defence and Space and OCCAR, the European Medium Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (MALE RPAS) Programme has taken ...

France Orders 12 Falcon 2000 Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
SAINT-CLOUD, France --- During a visit to the Dassault Aviation plant in Seclin, in northern France, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, today announced the upcoming notification ...

Five NATO Nations to Develop the Next Gen Medium Multi-Role Helicopters
BRUSSELS --- France, Germany, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom announced the launch of a multinational project on Next Generation Rotorcraft Capabilities on 19 November 2020. The project is ded...

Lockheed Offers Swiss Assembly of Four F-35s But No Guaranteed Offsets
FORT WORTH, Texas --- On Nov. 18, the U.S. government and Lockheed Martin submitted an F-35 proposal to the Swiss government in support of Switzerland's New Fighter Aircraft (NFA) competition. The ...

UK MoD Details £16.5Bn Additional Funding
The Prime Minister has announced the biggest investment in the UK’s Armed Forces since the end of the Cold War, confirming an injection of £16.5 billion over four years. Combined with the manifesto...

Only 3 of 46 US Military Aircraft Met Readiness Targets in 10 Years
GAO examined 46 types of aircraft and found that only three met their annual mission capable goals in a majority of the years for fiscal years 2011 through 2019 and 24 did not meet their annual missio...

Hungary Confirms NASAMS Buy, Says Deliveries to Begin in 2023
NASAMS is buying air defense missile systems from Kongsberg in Norway and Raytheon in the United States for the Hungarian Armed Forces, the Secretariat of the Government Commissioner for Defense Devel...

Z-20 to Be China’s Main Military Helicopter: Report
China's latest commissioned and fully domestically made tactical utility helicopter, the Z-20, is expected to become the country's most-delivered chopper by entering service with not only the Chinese ...

Japan Launches Frigate ‘Kumano,’ First 30DX Frigate
PARIS --- JS Kumano, the first of the 22 planned new-generation 30DX stealth frigates planned for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), was launched on Thursday at the Tamano shipyard of t...

Three More Countries Join NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems Initiative
NATO Allies Canada and Romania and NATO partner Australia joined the Maritime Unmanned Systems Initiative on 20 November 2020. The Maritime Unmanned Systems Initiative aims to strengthen the ability o...

Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Declared Combat Ready
SOUTH CERNEY, Gloucestershire --- The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps has been declared ‘combat ready’ after passing their combat readiness evaluation or CREVAL. The ARRC has been presented with NATO’s...

Pentagon Orders Two 37-meter Patrol Boats for Jordan
Marine Group Boat Works LLC, Chula Vista, California, is awarded a $48,717,886 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-2223 in support of the government of Jordan for ...

Lockheed to Build New Training Center for Joint French, German C-130J Squadron
ORLANDO, Fla. --- French and German C-130J Super Hercules aircrews and maintainers will train in a facility located in France, built and equipped by Lockheed Martin for the countries’ binational C-130...

Finland MoD Agrees Ammunition Deal with Nammo
Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen has authorised the Defence Forces Logistics Command to sign a strategic Partnership Agreement with Nammo Lapua Oy and Nammo Vihtavuori Oy, both of which are part of...

Insitu to Provide 15 Additional Scan Eagle UAVs to Afghanistan
Insitu Inc., Bingen, Washington, is awarded a $9,769,387 modification (P00009) to firm-fixed-price order N68335-19-F-0434 against previously issued basic ordering agreement N68335-16-G-0046. This...

Indian Air Chief Takes First-Hand Look at LCH Program
BENGALURU, India --- Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, Chief of the Air Staff, undertook his maiden flight in HAL-designed and -developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) here today. The aircraft took to ...

Dutch AF Ships First 3 Apaches to US for Remanufacturing
The first 3 Apache attack helicopters of the Ministry of Defense left this morning by boat from Antwerp to the United States. The AH-64Ds there undergo a so-called remanufacture, a process that takes ...

Safran Wins French Space Surveillance Contract
PARIS --- The French Space Command is expanding and diversifying its sources of information concerning the space environment by subscribing to WeTrack, a global network of radio-frequency (RF) sensors...

Naval Group Reveals Its Dutch R&D Partnerships
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands --- On November 18th and 19th 2020, at the NEDS 2020 online event, Naval Group reveals the joint participation with Dutch partners to European research and development projects ...

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