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Prince Naif Wins Case Against The Independent
2011-08-05 Read More...
A UK court has ordered The Independent newspaper to pay Prince Naif, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia, libel damages over an article which accused him of ordering Police Chiefs to shoot and kill unarmed demonstrators

Airborne Systems Wins 2nd French Contract
2011-07-13 Read More...
Airborne Systems, a subsidiary of HDT Global (HDT), provider of highly-engineered mobile military and emergency response solutions, announced its second major contract in

MBDA & DCI-COFRAS Sign Training MoU
2011-07-07 Read More...
MBDA France and DCI-COFRAS, DCI’s Land Force and Military Police Department, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding

DGA Orders 3rd Barracuda for the French Navy
2011-07-06 Read More...
France’s Defense Procurement Agency DGA placed an order with DCNS for the 3rd Barracuda-type nuclear-powered attack submarine for the French

MBDA & ISL Extend their Cooperation
2011-06-29 Read More...
At last week’s Le Bourget Air Show, MBDA and ISL (Franco-German research Institute of St. Louis) signed an international partnering agreement thereby extending the scope of the already existing cooperation between the two

Raytheon & NAMMO in an Alternate to AIM-120
2011-06-23 Read More...
Raytheon and the Norwegian defense company NAMMO are in the process of qualifying an alternate rocket engine for the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile.

Finmeccanica’s Aeronautics Division at Paris Air Show
2011-06-22 Read More...
Alenia Aeronautica, the company that heads up Finmeccanica’s aeronautics division, together with its subsidiaries and joint ventures, are participating again at the Paris Air Show with the latest

Eurocopter Inaugurates its Global Logistics Center
2011-06-20 Read More...
The new Eurocopter Global Logistics facility was inaugurated in southern France, marking a major milestone in the evolution of Eurocopter’s global integrated support network for customers and also providing improved internal logistics for the

ATK at Paris Air Show
2011-06-16 Read More...
ATK will participate as an exhibitor at the 2011 Paris Air Show and will highlight a variety of capabilities and programs at the show which will be held at Le Bourget Airport from 20-26 June 2011.

GKN Aerospace at Paris Air Show
2011-06-15 Read More...
At this year’s Paris Air Show (20-26 June 2011), GKN Aerospace aims to progress business across its areas of expertise with particular focus on a range of critical developing technologies.

FNSS Receives $559m Award from DEFTECH
2011-06-07 Read More...
FNSS of Turkey, a joint venture between BAE Systems, Inc. and Nurol Holding of Turkey, received and signed a $559 million letter of offer and acceptance (LOA) from DEFTECH of Malaysia for the design, development and manufacture of 257 DEFTECH AV-8

Cassidian Helped Secure the 37th G8 Summit in France
2011-06-03 Read More...
Cassidian helped to ensure the success of the security system at the recent G8 summit held in Deauville, France on 26-27 May

UK Investigates GPT Deal with Saudi National Guard
2011-05-31 Read More...
Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation into alleged bribery of Saudi officials by a British-based unit of the European defence group EADS, the Financial Times (FT) reported

Saab’s 5th Gen Automatic Identification Systems
2011-05-31 Read More...
Swedish Defense and security company Saab - a leading supplier of Maritime Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) - introduced a breakthrough in AIS technology, with the unveiling of its fifth generation R5 family of

Alenia Aeronautica Appoints New Chairman
2011-05-30 Read More...
Alenia Aeronautica's Board of Directors, convened this past Friday, has appointed Amedeo Caporaletti as company's Chairman, succeeding the resigning Giorgio Brazzelli, who held this position since 2009 and who has taken over another prestigious role

Cassidian’s Smallest-Smartest TETRA Base Station
2011-05-27 Read More...
At the ongoing TETRA World Congress 2011 (24-27 May; Budapest, Hungary) Cassidian launched the TB3p mini TETRA base station, which is suited for establishing indoor radio coverage, for stand-alone use and for providing areas with temporary radio

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