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Thales’ Watchkeeper Receives Type Design Assurance
2013-10-08 Read More...
Thales UK announced that its Watchkeeper Unmanned Air System (UAS) has received a Statement of Type Design Assurance (STDA) from the UK’s Military Aviation Authority (MAA).

Turkish Basic Trainer HÜRKUŞ Continues Test Flights
2013-10-08 Read More...
Turkish Basic Trainer Aircraft "HÜRKUŞ", which was designed to meet the training and Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance aircraft requirements of Turkish Armed Forces, successfully continues its test flights at TAI's premises in

New Zealand Selects MBDA’s Sea Ceptor Air Defence System
2013-10-08 Read More...
The New Zealand Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed its preferred tenderers for the Royal New Zealand Navy’s (RNZN) ANZAC Frigate Systems Upgrade project to include MBDA as the provider of Sea

Russian Navy to Get New Missile Systems Next Year
2013-10-08 Read More...
The Russian Navy will receive new advanced surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems next year, a defense industry executive

LM’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Intercepts Highest Target Yet
2013-10-08 Read More...
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin (LM) team successfully intercepted a threat representative, medium-range, separating ballistic missile target using the second generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)weapon

Newest SM-3 Intercepts MRBM Target at Highest Altitude
2013-10-07 Read More...
In a Missile Defense Agency test, the U.S. Navy fired a Standard Missile-3 Block IB, made by Raytheon, from the USS Lake Erie. The SM-3 eliminated the medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM)

Dassault, Thales to Modernize French Navy’s Atlantique 2
2013-10-07 Read More...
Dassault Aviation and Thales welcomed the award by the French Ministry of Defense of the contract to modernize the French Navy’s fleet of Atlantique 2 (ATL2) maritime patrol aircraft.

Russia-US Neck and Neck in Hypersonic Research
2013-10-04 Read More...
Russia and the United States are running neck and neck in their research of hypersonic military technologies, Russia's Deputy PM in charge of the defense industry said earlier this

RTD to Develop Hybrid Propulsion Demonstrator Study
2013-10-04 Read More...
The French defence procurement agency DGA awarded Renault Trucks Defense (RTD) a design study contract (PEA) to develop a hybrid propulsion demonstrator in

Raytheon Awarded Standard Missile-6 Contract
2013-10-03 Read More...
The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon Company a $243,478,659 contract for procurement of 89 Standard Missile-6 Block I all up rounds, spares, containers and

Exelis Wins Order for i-Aware® Night Vision Goggles
2013-10-03 Read More...
Exelis has been awarded a direct commercial contract valued at $28 million to provide i-Aware® Tactical Mobility Night Vision Goggles (TM-NVG) to an international

Bombardier Breaks Ground on New Moroccan Facility
2013-10-02 Read More...
Bombardier Aerospace celebrated on Monday the opening of the Midparc Casablanca Free Zone, in Nouaceur, with a symbolic groundbreaking on the site of the future Bombardier manufacturing

U.S. Concerned of Turkey’s Pick of Chinese Missiles
2013-10-02 Read More...
The United States reacted with alarm to news that Turkey has chosen a Chinese company, slapped with U.S. sanctions, to build its first long-range air defense and anti-missile

Navistar Wins Afghan National Security Forces Order
2013-10-02 Read More...
Navistar Defense, LLC, already a key supplier to the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP), has received an order from the U.S.

Exelis to Supply Launchers & Systems for P-8A Poseidon
2013-10-01 Read More...
Exelis has completed negotiations for two production contracts from Boeing Co. to supply sonobuoy launchers and carriage and release systems for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime

Airbus Military Delivers First A400M to French Air Force
2013-10-01 Read More...
More than 700 people celebrated the delivery of the first production A400M new generation airlifter to the French Air Force at a ceremony at the Airbus Military Final Assembly Line (FAL) at Seville, Spain on 30

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