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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

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

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

F-35 Program Reaches Flight Target
2010-12-17 Read More...
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II program team reached, this past week, its 2010 goal of 394 test flights jointly established by the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office and Lockheed

DCNS’s New-Generation Support Vessels
2010-12-16 Read More...
DCNS recently gave a presentation on its new-generation BRAVE (Bâtiment RAVitailleur d'Escadre) underway replenishment tanker and support vessel under development for both the French Navy and international

Rohde & Schwarz’s Radios for Eurofighter Typhoon
2010-12-13 Read More...
Rohde & Schwarz has received an additional order for VHF/VHF radios to equip the Eurofighter Typhoon series aircraft. The company's close involvement with the project, which began when the series went into production in 1999, has now been extended

DCNS Wins Naval Base O&M Contracts
2010-12-08 Read More...
DCNS has been awarded three four-year contracts for the operation and maintenance of French Navy port facilities and naval base power distribution networks at Toulon and

Saab: Additional Order from LM
2010-12-01 Read More...
Swedish Defense and security company Saab received an additional order of MSEK 108 from Lockheed Martin Canada for further enhancement of the Sea Giraffe 150 HC 2D radar for the modernization of the Canadian Navy's Halifax-class frigates.

MBDA & Eurosam: Europe’s First Intercept of a Ballistic Missile
2010-11-26 Read More...
Within the framework of the FSAF development programmed whose goal is to provide the SAMP/T system with an anti-tactical ballistic missile defense capability, Eurosam carried out a system firing at the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA EM) test

Norwegian DINGO 2 to Afghanistan
2010-11-25 Read More...
Only three weeks after the order agreement between the Norwegian Army and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) on 29 October 2010, the first 10 of 20 DINGO 2 heavily armored vehicles have been delivered to a delegation of the Norwegian Armed

First Metal Cutting for the FALAJ 2 Corvette
2010-11-19 Read More...
At Fincantieri’s Muggiano shipyards, near La Spezia, the first metal cutting ceremony was recently held for the first of two stealth corvettes the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ordered early this

DCNS & Navantia End Disagreement
2010-11-13 Read More...
DCNS and Navantia announced that they have put an end to their disagreement concerning their submarine collaboration.As a result, the arbitration procedure between them will be

MU90 Cooperation in Spain
2010-11-11 Read More...
EUROTORP, the French-Italian consortium, world leader in the field of light weight torpedo weapon systems, and SENER, the largest Spanish privately owned engineering company, have signed at EURONAVAL 2010 (Le Bourget, France) an Industrial

MBDA Italy Cooperates with CIRA
2010-11-05 Read More...
MBDA Italy and CIRA (the Italian Centre for Aerospace Research) have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at advancing in the most effective way the operational skills of each of the two organisations in their respective

5th A400M Aircraft Heads to Seville
2010-11-02 Read More...
Following the arrival of the wing set, the final assembly process for the fifth Airbus Military A400M military airlifter is now beginning on the San Pablo Final Assemlby Line in Seville (Spain).

Second Airbus Tanker Makes Maiden Flight
2010-10-30 Read More...
The second A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the UK Royal Air Force successfully completed its maiden flight from the Airbus Military facility at Getafe, Madrid following its conversion.

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