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Harris Wins Falcon III Multiband Manpack Radios Order
2012-05-15 Read More...
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a $75 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract - with an initial delivery order of $8 million - for its Falcon III®

Flight Tests for Saab’s Skeldar Unmanned Helicopter
2012-05-14 Read More...
Saab's unmanned helicopter Skeldar is currently in an intensive period. Flights were recently carried out with a heavy fuel powered version of Skeldar and at the same time, final tests and mature tests of Skeldar are

F-35 to Replace Most US Combat Fleet by 2020
2012-05-14 Read More...
The Pentagon plans to have the F-35 fighter jet replace most of the combat aircraft fleet of the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps by the end of the

Boeing & USAF Complete 1st QF-16 Aerial Target Flight
2012-05-14 Read More...
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force completed the first manned flight of the QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target (FSAT) on May 4 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville,

Australia to Acquire 10 C-27J Spartan Aircraft
2012-05-11 Read More...
Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, welcomes the decision taken by the Australian Minister for Defence and Minister for Defence Materiel to purchase 10 new built Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan Battlefield Airlift aircraft at a cost of around

Securing Asia 2012
2012-05-11 Read More...
As the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death witnessed a major Taliban attack in Kabul and heightened security surges in NYC, London and other western capitals gripped by retaliation fears, few people believe the terror threat has been

MBDA’s Exocet MM40 Test Fired with Avibras Motor
2012-05-11 Read More...
The Brazilian Navy has successfully carried out a firing trial of an Exocet MM40 missile, equipped with a motor developed, produced and certified by Avibras in partnership with MBDA.

Kazakhstan to Acquire 20 Multi-Role EC725 Helicopters
2012-05-11 Read More...
Kazakhstan has signed a letter of intent to acquire 20 Eurocopter EC725 helicopters, marking a major new commitment for this medium-lift rotorcraft. These aircraft, which will be assembled in Kazakhstan, will be used by the country’s Ministry of

Raytheon Completes 1st Flight Test of Improved SM-3
2012-05-11 Read More...
Raytheon completed the first successful flight test of the Standard Missile-3 Block IB, which is the cornerstone of phase two of the administration's Phased Adaptive Approach (PAA). This is the 20th successful intercept for Raytheon's SM-3

FN MAG Machine Gun Goes Polymer
2012-05-10 Read More...
The 7.62x51mm NATO caliber FN MAG - designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by Belgium-based small arms manufacturer FN Herstal - comes now standard with a polymer

First Travis C-5B Inducted
2012-05-10 Read More...
Lockheed Martin last week inducted into its facilities in Marietta, Georgia, the first C-5B Galaxy from Travis Air Force Base, California, to become a C-5M Super

INVISIO Wins New Headset Order
2012-05-10 Read More...
INVISIO of Sweden has received an order from a Special Forces

Boeing KC-46 Tanker Completes Preliminary Design Review
2012-05-09 Read More...
The Boeing KC-46 Tanker program has completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the U.S. Air Force, a key milestone in the development of the next-generation aerial refueling

Lockheed's DAGR Drags Moving Target from AH-64 Apache
2012-05-09 Read More...
Lockheed Martin’s Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) successfully tracked and engaged a moving target in a recent demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground,

Raytheon Fires 4 Excalibur from Denel’s G6 Howitzer
2012-05-09 Read More...
Raytheon has fired four Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from the Denel-manufactured G6 self-propelled howitzer as part of a field trial

Austal Holds Keel-Laying Ceremony for US Navy's JHSV 3
2012-05-08 Read More...
On May 3, 2012, Austal held a keel-laying ceremony for the third Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), one of nine Austal-designed 103-metre US Navy Joint High Speed Vessels under contract with the US

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