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Airbus & Boeing: The Race Goes on!
2011-01-17 Read More...
Airbus said it sold 644 planes worth more than $84 billion at list prices in 2010, beating arch-rival Boeing's total of 625 planes, following a surge of some 200 plane orders in

Ruag Space: Mechanisms for the James Webb Space Telescope
2011-01-14 Read More...
RUAG Space (Vienna, Austria) recently completed the task of developing and supplying mechanisms for one of the three main instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope

LM to Support U.S. Navy MH-60R Helicopter Fleet
2011-01-14 Read More...
The U.S. Navy demonstrated its continued commitment to keeping its MH-60R Seahawk helicopter fleet at the forefront of anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, awarding Lockheed Martin (LM) a variety of production and development contracts totaling

Cassidian & Atlas Elektronik Launch SIGNALIS
2011-01-13 Read More...
Cassidian and Atlas Elektronik announced the completion of the merger of their subsidiaries Sofrelog and Atlas Maritime

Iveco & Soframe Win DGA Contract
2011-01-13 Read More...
Iveco Defence Vehicles, and French Soframe, have been awarded a contract to supply multi-purpose military vehicles to the French armed forces. The tender invitation was issued in 2007 by the Division of General Armaments (DGA), a part of the French

Harris to Supply Tactical Radios to Coalition Forces
2011-01-12 Read More...
Harris Corporation has received a $14.4 million order to provide additional RF-310M-HH handheld tactical radios for improved secure communications

Oshkosh: 800 Protection Kits for the US Army
2011-01-11 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, will deliver 800 protection kits for the MRAP All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) following an order from the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command

BAE: New Helmet for Eurofighter Pilots
2011-01-10 Read More...
BAE Systems launched a highly sophisticated helmet and support system for fighter pilots to help them ‘see’ through the aircraft body giving them vital advantage when it comes to split-second

LM’s Next-Gen Long-Range Surveillance Radars
2011-01-06 Read More...
Lockheed Martin (LM) has successfully completed a capability demonstration in the latest phase of the U.S. Air Force's development of the next-generation mobile, long-range surveillance and ballistic missile defense

BAE to Sell Aerospace Unit
2011-01-06 Read More...
BAE Systems has asked three bidders for its Platform Solutions unit, including General Electric Co, to submit their 'best and final' offers this week, a source close to the British defense contractor

Kaman: Contract with LaBarge
2011-01-05 Read More...
LaBarge, Inc., a provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS), has been awarded a contract valued at $1.6 million from Kaman Aerospace Corporation to provide cockpit wiring harnesses for the MH-60S SEAHAWK

Saab Wins Arthur Deal
2011-01-04 Read More...
Defense and security company Saab received an order for weapon locating system Arthur. The order amount is 200 million SEK (over 29 million

Oshkosh to Bolster U.S. Marine Corps’ Fleet
2010-12-31 Read More...
Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, will supply the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 100 Logistics Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR) Cargo variants and 120 enhanced protection kits following an order from the Marine Corps Systems

France to Build 2 Naval Command Ships with Russia
2010-12-27 Read More...
France said that Russia will buy 2 Mistral-class command and amphibious assault warships from a French-led consortium, with the possibility of 2

Harris’ Falcon III AN/PRC-117G
2010-12-23 Read More...
Harris successfully integrated its advanced wideband networking radio - already in use by warfighters in the field today - into the future Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Soldier Radio Waveform Network

Delivery of Tornado IS 86 to Italian Air Force
2010-12-22 Read More...
Earlier this week, Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, delivered to the Italian Air Force the Tornado IS86 (MM 7087), the series-lead of 15 aircraft envisaged by Italian Air Force’s IT Basic Full MLU (RET 7) retrofit

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