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Thales to Supply GPS Receivers for French Navy Lynx
2012-04-09 Read More...
Thales has been awarded a contract by the Service Industriel de l'Aéronautique (SIAé), France's military aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul service, to supply stand-alone GPS receivers for the French Navy's Lynx helicopters, which are

B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber’s 1st Sortie Over North Pole
2012-04-06 Read More...
Under contract to the U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman Corporation's B-2 Spirit stealth bomber has completed its first 18.5-hour sortie over the North Pole to validate new flight management

NGC Delivers 1st F-35 Center Fuselage Produced by IAL
2012-04-05 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NGC) first F-35 center fuselage produced by its Integrated Assembly Line (IAL) was delivered to Lockheed Martin on March 16,

iRobot Warrior & PackBot Robots Sold to Progress Energy
2012-04-05 Read More...
iRobot Corp., a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, announced that 3 of the company’s robots have been purchased by Progress Energy and are in use at the Robinson Nuclear Plant near Hartsville, South

ATK Defense Starts Operations
2012-04-04 Read More...
ATK announced that the ATK Defense business group commenced operations at the beginning of the company's new fiscal year, on April 1,

India Test Fires Brahmos Missile with New Systems
2012-04-04 Read More...
India on Friday test fired the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile with certain new systems from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur off Odisha

DCNS Signs MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology
2012-04-04 Read More...
DCNS recently signed, through DCNS Research, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, one of the top academic institutions in India, dedicated to engineering and technology

Alenia Aermacchi Wins Eurofighter Contract
2012-04-03 Read More...
Alenia Aermacchi (a Finmeccanica company) has won a contract worth more than €500 million to supply technical and logistical support services as part of the Eurofighter Typhoon program.

U.S. Sanctions Hit Syrian Defense Minister & Military Figures
2012-04-03 Read More...
The United States hit Syria’s Defense Minister and two other senior military figures with sanctions Friday, ramping pressure on Bashar al-Assad’s regime as U.N. efforts failed to halt

Sagem to Supply Optronic System for French Navy Frigates
2012-04-03 Read More...
Sagem (Safran group) has signed a contract with French naval shipyard DCNS, under French defense procurement agency DGA as contracting authority, for the modernization of fire control systems on 6 Floréal class surveillance

New Air Surveillance Radar to Defend Arabian Gulf
2012-04-03 Read More...
U.S. Airmen defending the Arabian Gulf have another arrow in their quiver thanks to a new radar system installed at the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing on March

US Naval Research Ship Docks at Austal's Facility
2012-04-03 Read More...
Austal announced on 30 March the mooring of the US Navy’s Research Vessel ROGER REVELLE (AGOR 24) at its Marine Support Base in Henderson, Western

Doubly Historic Day for Saab
2012-04-02 Read More...
Today (2nd of April) is a doubly historic day for the Swedish defense and security company

Thales Delivers 1st RBE2 AESA Radar to Dassault Aviation
2012-04-02 Read More...
In February, Thales delivered the first series-produced RBE2 radar with active electronically scanned array (AESA) to the Dassault Aviation facility in Mérignac,

Telephonics’ Interrogator Completes Certification
2012-04-02 Read More...
Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, has received confirmation from the US Department of Defense “Air Traffic Control Radar System Identification Friend or Foe Systems” Program

Pentagon: F-35 Won’t Reach Full Production Until 2019
2012-03-30 Read More...
The cost of developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter rose 4.3% to $395.7 billion last year and the plane will not reach full-rate production until 2019, the Pentagon

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