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4,000 US troops to leave Iraq next month
2009-09-30 Read More...
The US will withdraw about 4,000 troops from Iraq by the end of October, the US military commander in Iraq said in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Rheinmetall Wins U.K. Propellant Contract
2009-09-30 Read More...
Rheinmetall Nitrochemie is to provide the British military with propellant systems for ammunition manufacture under a 10-year deal signed with BAE Systems worth 200 million euros ($291.8 million).

Raytheon Completes Flight Testing of Key Air Force Intelligence System
2009-09-29 Read More...
Raytheon Company has established initial operational capability and has conducted flight tests for a key communications component for the U.S. Air Force DCGS (Distributed Common Ground System).

Oshkosh Defense to supply TAK-4 Independent Suspension for MRAPs
2009-09-28 Read More...
Oshkosh Corporation announced today that its Defense division has received orders valued at $24 million to supply its TAK-4® independent suspension system for more than 300 BAE Systems USCS RG-33 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. BAE

Two Rafale jets crash in Mediterranean
2009-09-26 Read More...
Two high-techs, French-made Rafale fighters have crashed Thursday while on maneuvers in the Mediterranean and one of the pilots aboard has been saved, Defense Ministry sources confirmed but did not give

Alenia delivers the first modernised G.222
2009-09-25 Read More...
Alenia Aeronautica (a Finmeccanica company), through its subsidiary Alenia North America, will deliver to the US Air Force the first of the 18 modernised G.222 tactical transport aircraft, to be then shipped to the re-constituted Afghan Air

Eurofighter Typhoon deliveries completed to the Austrian Air Force
2009-09-24 Read More...
Eurofighter has delivered the 15th and final aircraft ordered by the Austrian Armed Forces today. The aircraft was rolled out from the the EADS Defence & Security Manching assembly line, close to Munich,

Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann hand over first serially produced Boxer vehicle
2009-09-24 Read More...
Official transfer of the first serially manufactured transport vehicle has taken place in the presence of German and Dutch defence ministers. The armed forces of Germany and the Netherlands have taken delivery of an optimally protected, highly

US sees delay in Iran long-range missile
2009-09-18 Read More...
A new US intelligence assessment that Iran would need three to five more years than previously thought to build long-range missiles underpinned President Barack Obama's decision to overhaul a missile shield system in Europe, officials

DGA orders 15 SH20 helicopter door mountings to Nexter Systems
2009-09-15 Read More...
As part of the defence section of the economy stimulation plan, Hervé Morin, the Minister for Defence, announces an order for 20 mm door mountings to equip the armed forces' transport and attack helicopters. On the 31st of August 2009, the French

DGA orders 15 SH20 helicopter door mountings to Nexter Systems
2009-09-15 Read More...
As part of the defence section of the economy stimulation plan, Hervé Morin, the Minister for Defence, announces an order for 20 mm door mountings to equip the armed forces' transport and attack helicopters. On the 31st of August 2009, the French

EADS Defence & Security delivers high-tech transmit/receive radar modules for integration into the first MEADS prototype
2009-09-15 Read More...
The high-tech radar modules from EADS Defence & Security (DS) for the Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) of the German-Italian-American Medium Extended Air Defence System (MEADS) have passed all required acceptance tests with margin. This test

Pentagon eyes $7.8bn missile sale to Turkey
2009-09-12 Read More...
The Obama administration has told Congress of a possible sale to Turkey of advanced Patriot PAC-3 antimissile systems valued at up to $7.8

FASGW/ANL Joint assessment phase
2009-09-11 Read More...
MBDA welcomes the announcement by the United Kingdom and France of the Joint Assessment Phase to develop a common solution for the next generation of a European helicopter anti-surface

Sagem receives new order for 450 JIM LR multifunction infrared rangefinders for French Army
2009-09-08 Read More...
France’s defense procurement agency (DGA) has just ordered for the French Army 450 JIM LR (Long Range) multifunction infrared rangefinders from Sagem (Safran Group). The order also includes 430 tactical portable MEPS 08P monitors and 90 ROSS (1)

US leads world in foreign weapons sales: report
2009-09-07 Read More...
The US accounted for more than two-thirds of foreign weapons sales in 2008, a year in which global sales were at a three-year low, The New York Times has

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