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NGC to Support U.S. Navy on Minehunting Integration
2013-06-11 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Navy's integration onto an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) of the Northrop Grumman-built AQS-24A Side Look Sonar System to look for bottom and volume mines

MBDA France, OKTAL-SE Sign Partnership Agreement
2013-06-11 Read More...
MBDA France, part of MBDA Group, Europe’s leading missile manufacturer, and Oktal-SE, worldwide multispectral simulation software major player, are pleased to announce that they have materialized their fructuous collaborative work, started in 1991

KONGSBERG Completes F-35 JSM Fit Check
2013-06-11 Read More...
KONGSBERG and Lockheed Martin have completed a fit check of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) in the internal carriage bay of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)

Lockheed Delivers 1st Modernized Laser Range Finder
2013-06-10 Read More...
Lockheed Martin recently delivered the first Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) Laser Range Finder Designator (LRFD) to the U.S. Army for the AH-64D/E Apache

Lockheed Martin Conducts PAC-3 MSE Missile Test
2013-06-07 Read More...
Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) Missile successfully engaged, intercepted and destroyed two different threat representative targets during a flight test today at White Sands Missile Range, New

ITT Exelis Wins US Navy Contract
2013-06-07 Read More...
ITT Exelis has been awarded a contract valued at more than $125 million by Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, to deliver the latest variant of the AN/ALQ-214 airborne

US Army Selects Bell V-280 Valor for JMR-TD Program
2013-06-07 Read More...
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, announced that the Bell V-280 Valor™, its third generation tiltrotor design, has been selected by the U.S. Army for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) program.

Eurocopter UK to Support 24 Royal Air Force Pumas
2013-06-06 Read More...
Eurocopter UK’s role in maintaining the United Kingdom’s military helicopter capabilities has been further expanded with the award of a three-year support contract for the fleet of 24 Royal Air Force Puma Mk2 helicopters being upgraded by the

Aero3A to Provide HD Images of Paris Air Show
2013-06-06 Read More...
The GIFAS and the SIAE, organizers of the Paris Air Show (17-23 June 2013), decided again this year to provide HD images of the show to the media, for free.

ITT Exelis Wins US Army IT Services Contract
2013-06-06 Read More...
ITT Exelis has been awarded a U.S. Army contract to continue to provide information technology operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Army in Southwest and Central Asia.

General Dynamics Units Win Mega US Navy Contracts
2013-06-05 Read More...
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works a contract valued at $2.8 billion for the construction of 4 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, with an option for a fifth

Putin: “S-300 Missiles Not Sent to Syria Yet”
2013-06-05 Read More...
Russian President Vladimir Putin defended on Tuesday Russia’s right to sell arms to the Syrian government but said Moscow had not yet delivered advanced S-300 air defense systems to

Tusk: “Poland to Spend $40Bn on Defense Modernization”
2013-06-05 Read More...
Poland is committed to modernizing its Armed Forces despite prolonged economic woes and will invest about $40 billion in its military within the next decade, Prime Minister Donald Tusk (photo) said

Exelis Completes Technology Maturation of US Navy NGJ
2013-06-05 Read More...
ITT Exelis has successfully completed the 33-month technology maturation phase of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Jammer (NGJ)

Lockheed Completes LRASM Vertical Launch System Tests
2013-06-04 Read More...
Lockheed Martin successfully completed MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) “push-through” testing of a simulated Long Range Anti-Ship Missile

European Defence Agency Organises 1st War Game
2013-06-04 Read More...
Twenty-five military and civil experts from the Member States and EU bodies participate in the first war game on future capabilities in a European framework, organised by the European Defence Agency (EDA) from 4 to 6 June in The

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