Defense News | Al Defaiya

Defense News

MBDA & Eurosam: Europe’s First Intercept of a Ballistic Missile
2010-11-26 Read More...
Within the framework of the FSAF development programmed whose goal is to provide the SAMP/T system with an anti-tactical ballistic missile defense capability, Eurosam carried out a system firing at the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA EM) test

Norwegian DINGO 2 to Afghanistan
2010-11-25 Read More...
Only three weeks after the order agreement between the Norwegian Army and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) on 29 October 2010, the first 10 of 20 DINGO 2 heavily armored vehicles have been delivered to a delegation of the Norwegian Armed

US Orders 250 Navistar MRAP
2010-11-24 Read More...
Navistar Defense, LLC announced that it received a delivery order for 250 International® MaxxPro® Recovery vehicles from the U.S. Marine Corps Systems

Pakistan Seeks Chinese Missiles
2010-11-20 Read More...
Pakistan has confirmed it will buy Chinese missiles and flight systems to equip its 250 JF-17 Thunder jet fighters as it seeks to deepen military cooperation with Beijing, state media said

Oshkosh at the 43rd Tecate SCORE Baja 1000
2010-11-19 Read More...
Oshkosh Corporation announced its first participation in the 43rd Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race Nov. 18-20 in Mexico. The Oshkosh Extreme Racing team will run its Light Concept Vehicles (LCV) through the rugged 1,061-mile desert course

First Metal Cutting for the FALAJ 2 Corvette
2010-11-19 Read More...
At Fincantieri’s Muggiano shipyards, near La Spezia, the first metal cutting ceremony was recently held for the first of two stealth corvettes the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ordered early this

DCNS & Navantia End Disagreement
2010-11-13 Read More...
DCNS and Navantia announced that they have put an end to their disagreement concerning their submarine collaboration.As a result, the arbitration procedure between them will be

MU90 Cooperation in Spain
2010-11-11 Read More...
EUROTORP, the French-Italian consortium, world leader in the field of light weight torpedo weapon systems, and SENER, the largest Spanish privately owned engineering company, have signed at EURONAVAL 2010 (Le Bourget, France) an Industrial

Sypris and Cassidian Form Alliance
2010-11-08 Read More...
Sypris Electronics, LLC, a subsidiary of Sypris Solutions Inc., announced that it has signed a Technology Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with Cassidian, formerly known as EADS Defense & Security, the second largest division within the EADS

MBDA Italy Cooperates with CIRA
2010-11-05 Read More...
MBDA Italy and CIRA (the Italian Centre for Aerospace Research) have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at advancing in the most effective way the operational skills of each of the two organisations in their respective

Lockheed Martin’s Microwave Weapon
2010-11-04 Read More...
Lockheed Martin received a $230,000 U.S. Air Force contract to define requirements for a weapon that uses high-power microwave energy beams instead of explosives to take out enemy electronic

5th A400M Aircraft Heads to Seville
2010-11-02 Read More...
Following the arrival of the wing set, the final assembly process for the fifth Airbus Military A400M military airlifter is now beginning on the San Pablo Final Assemlby Line in Seville (Spain).

Goodrich to Provide IMU for Excalibur
2010-11-01 Read More...
Goodrich Corporation will continue to supply its gun hard Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for the Raytheon Excalibur precision-guided artillery round.

FLIR: World's 1st True Thermal Binoculars
2010-11-01 Read More...
During last week's AUSA Annual Convention (Washington, DC, 25-27 October 2010), FLIR Systems introduced the world's first true thermal binoculars. The Recon(r) BN6 and Recon(r) BN10 provide an authentic binocular viewing experience and a true depth

Second Airbus Tanker Makes Maiden Flight
2010-10-30 Read More...
The second A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the UK Royal Air Force successfully completed its maiden flight from the Airbus Military facility at Getafe, Madrid following its conversion.

Oto Melara & Babcock Team Up
2010-10-30 Read More...
At this week's Euronaval Exhibition (Le Bourget, 25-29 October 2010), Oto Melara (a subsidiary of the Finmeccanica Group) and Babcock International Group’s Marine Division signed a Memorandum of Understanding to offer the Oto

Latest events

Paris Air Show
19 - 25 Jun 2023Paris Le Bourget - France
16th International Defence Industry Fair - IDEF’23
25 - 28 Jul 2023Istanbul - Turkey
MSPO
05 - 08 Sep 2023Kielce - Poland
DSEI
12 - 15 Sep 2023Excel, London - United Kingdom

Latest Issue

THE WORLD DEFENSE ALMANAC