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October 08, 2021  

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Turkey Asks to Buy 40 F-16 Jets and 80 Upgrade Kits to Upgrade Fleet
WASHINGTON --- Turkey has made a request to the U.S. to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes, as the NATO ally looks to modernize i

Greek Parliament Approves €550M Military Funding Package with Missiles, Drones
Besides the agreement with the French government to acquire three frigates, with an option for a fourth, and six more Rafale fighter jets, raising the total to 24, Greece will spend considerable sums

Russia Developing Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile for Su-57 Fighter
Another hypersonic weapon system is being developed in Russia as part of the Larchinka-MD development work (ROC). The missile is at the prototype stage, and has not yet entered flight tests. The new m

 


The Turkish Air Force wants to buy new F-16s, and upgrade 80 more, which would otherwise be retired by the next decade, but many observers say that while the US government might approve the sale, congress would be unlikely to allow it. (Twitter photo)


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Turkey Asks to Buy 40 F-16 Jets and 80 Upgrade Kits to Upgrade Fleet
WASHINGTON --- Turkey has made a request to the U.S. to buy 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets and nearly 80 modernization kits for its existing warplanes, as the NATO ally looks to modernize i...

Greek Parliament Approves €550M Military Funding Package with Missiles, Drones
Besides the agreement with the French government to acquire three frigates, with an option for a fourth, and six more Rafale fighter jets, raising the total to 24, Greece will spend considerable sums ...

Russia Developing Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile for Su-57 Fighter
Another hypersonic weapon system is being developed in Russia as part of the Larchinka-MD development work (ROC). The missile is at the prototype stage, and has not yet entered flight tests. The new m...

China Says Japan’s ‘De Facto’ Aircraft Carrier Raises Security Concerns
By having F-35B stealth fighter jets successfully flying from a modified helicopter destroyer in a recent test, Japan now in de facto has an aircraft carrier in its arsenal, the first since the countr...

Poland MoD Says Patriot Battery Delivery on Schedule
“We assume that the deliveries will be made at the scheduled time - the Patriots will be delivered to our country by the end of next year. We are preparing the infrastructure, and soldiers will be tra...

Swedish Armed Forces Stand Up Two New Regiments
The Swedish Armed Forces is now being reinforced by two new units. In a festive ceremony in Arvidsjaur on 24 September, the Norrland Dragoon Regiment, K 4, was reinaugurated. “A historical day for Swe...

Pentagon Won’t Confirm Reports of US Special Forces in Taiwan
U.S. Defense Department officials are refusing to confirm reports that American forces are in Taiwan, secretly training Taiwanese troops to prepare them in case of an attack from China. The Wall St...

Brazil Export Bank Supports Export of 24 Embraer Aircraft to US
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil --- The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) approved financing to export 24 Embraer E175 commercial jets to SkyWest Airlines, the world's largest regional aviation company, ...

Lockheed Delivers HE Laser for Flight Testing on AC-130J Gunship
BOTHELL, WASH --- Lockheed Martin successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL), in preparation for U.S. military ground and flight testing of the system....

US Army Receives Hypersonic Missile’s Ground System
TACOMA, Wash. --- Today Lockheed Martin celebrated with the U.S. Army the delivery of critical ground equipment for its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system – part of a rapid, multi-year hyperso...

DOD Official Discusses Cybersecurity Priorities
The Defense Department is becoming smarter about cybersecurity and is at an inflection point, Kelly Fletcher, performing the duties of the chief information officer, said today in a Billington CyberSe...

EDA Exercise to Boost C-27J Interoperability
The ‘European Spartan Exercise’ 2021, an annual flying exercise organised by the C-27J community with the support of EDA and hosted this year by the Bulgarian Air Force, is currently underway at Plovd...

British Army Warfighting Experiment 2021 Looks to Future Technologies
The British Army together with industry partners are coming together this month for the Army Warfighting Experiment 2021 (AWE 21). Taking place on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, it will enhance future ...

Ruag, Raytheon Team to Support Patriot in Switzerland
Following the Federal Council's decision to acquire the Patriot system from the American manufacturer Raytheon Technologies to provide long-range land air defense (BODLUV GR) in the country, the leade...

Brazilian AF Begins Short Landing Training with KC-390 Aircraft
On September 28th and 29th, the crew of Squadron Zeus (1st GTT) performed short landing training using the KC-390 Millennium multi-mission transport aircraft. The activity took place at the Anápolis A...

American EMS Firm Orders 21 New Airbus Helicopters
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas --- Global Medical Response (GMR) will add a total of 21 Airbus helicopters from the H125, H130 and H135 families to its growing air medical fleet, with options to include up to a...

Hensoldt Announces New Multifunction Aerial Jammer
TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany --- Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT has achieved a far-reaching technological leap in the advancement of technologies to control the electromagnetic spectrum. Combining art...

Nexter Signs Artillery MoU with Czech STV Group
VERSAILLES, France --- On September 20, 2021, Nexter Group signed an agreement with the Czech manufacturer STV Group for the local supply and certification of shells and modular charges. Nexter und...

Pentagon Talks Up Italian Supply Chain
Developing and strengthening the relationships between U.S. partners and allies is a top priority for Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III. For a long time, Italy has been one of the nations the U...

GA-ASI Adopts Open Systems Approach for Gray Eagle ER
SAN DIEGO --- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with the U.S. Army to develop a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO)-capable Gray Eag...

Raytheon to Develop Cutting-Edge Live Training System for US Army
ORLANDO, Fla.--- The U.S. Army has awarded a Raytheon Technologies business, two contracts totaling $8.1 million to demonstrate and test a live training system prototype as part of its Synthetic Train...

Team to Virtually Build, Test, Analyze Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle
Raytheon Technologies is part of Team Lynx, an industry team led by American Rheinmetall Vehicles and working with the U.S. Army to digitally engineer the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, or OMFV. ...

Swiss Team Wins DARPA Robotics Contest
BERN --- The final of the three-year Subterranean Challenge robotics competition funded by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense) took place i...


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