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Lockheed Martin Launches Lockheed Martin International
2013-07-03 Read More...
Lockheed Martin Corporation launched Lockheed Martin International (LMI), a new organization responsible for strengthening international customer relationships and industrial partnerships, and growing the company’s global business.

Russia, China’s Joint Military Exercises to Start Friday
2013-07-03 Read More...
Russia and China have set dates for joint military exercises to be held this summer, the Chief of China’s General Staff

Raytheon Wins NAVAIR Surveillance System Contract
2013-07-03 Read More...
Raytheon was awarded a contract with the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to build an integrated multi-INT system to safeguard forward deployed

Raytheon Wins NAVAIR Surveillance System Contract
2013-07-03 Read More...
Raytheon was awarded a contract with the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to build an integrated multi-INT system to safeguard forward deployed

Gripen First Combat Fighter to Fire Meteor Missile
2013-07-02 Read More...
In cooperation with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), defence and security company Saab has successfully conducted the first test firing of the version of the Meteor radar-controlled air-to-air missile, developed for mass

DCI & Chalair Aviation Acquire Stakes in Vigie Aviation
2013-07-02 Read More...
DCI, a service provider with activities on the entire spectrum of defense and domestic security, and Chalair Aviation, a French airline company, continue their development by announcing an investment in Vigie

NDLO & Navantia Sign Life Cycle Support Contract
2013-07-01 Read More...
NDLO and Navantia have signed in Bergen a “Follow on Technical Support” for the maintaining and life support works of the F-310 class frigates built by Navantia, during the next 3

Raytheon Wins SM-3 Contract
2013-07-01 Read More...
Raytheon was awarded a sole-source, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract valued at $126,000,000. The SM-3 missile is designed to destroy incoming short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats by colliding with them in space, a

DCI's Expertise in Training Fighter and Helicopter Pilots
2013-06-28 Read More...
DCI, a service provider with activities on the entire spectrum of defense and domestic security, possesses unrivaled expertise in training fighter and helicopter

Boeing Starts Assembly of 1st KC-46A Tanker Aircraft
2013-06-28 Read More...
Boeing workers in Everett loaded the first wing spar for the first U.S. Air Force KC-46A aerial refueling tanker, starting production of that aircraft and achieving another milestone toward delivering 179 tankers during the next 14

Syria’s Yak-130 Jets Waiting “Political Decision”
2013-06-28 Read More...
Russia has manufactured several Yak-130 combat trainer jets for Syria as part of a deal signed in 2011, but no final decision on delivery has yet been made, a Russian official source said on

ATK, US Air Force Test New Large Class Rocket Motor
2013-06-28 Read More...
ATK and the United States Air Force successfully tested the newly developed Large Class (92-inch diameter) Stage I solid rocket motor May 23 at ATK's test facilities in Promontory,

Royal Navy of Oman Accepts First of Class Warship
2013-06-27 Read More...
The first warship built by BAE Systems for the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) as part of Project Khareef for the design, build and delivery of three corvettes, has been formally handed over in a ceremony at HM Naval Base Portsmouth

Iveco-Soframe Deliver 1st Military Truck to French Army
2013-06-27 Read More...
Iveco Defence Vehicles and its French Soframe have handed over the first of 200 multi-purpose military vehicles of the Porteur Polyvalent Terrestre (PPT) Programme to the French Armed Forces.

Eurocopter’s New Paris-Le Bourget Industrial Site
2013-06-26 Read More...
The green light for the start of construction on Eurocopter’s new industrial site, known as “Paris-Le Bourget”, was given this past week by Guillaume Faury, President and CEO of Eurocopter, in the presence of Claude Bartolone, President of the

ITT Exelis SideHat & Rifleman Radios Certified by NSA
2013-06-26 Read More...
ITT Exelis received National Security Agency (NSA) certifications for its SideHat and the Soldier Radio-Rifleman (SR-R)

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